Isabella Jagiellon

Isabella Jagiellonica (Polish Izabela Jagiellonka; * January 18, 1519 in Krakow, † September 15, 1559 in Alba Iulia ) was a Polish-Lithuanian princess of the noble family of the Jagiellonian. She was from 1539 by marriage Queen of Hungary.

Life

Isabella was the daughter of the Polish king Sigismund I of Poland from his marriage with Bona Sforza. She married in 1539 the Hungarian King John Zápolya. On July 8, 1540 gave birth to a son, John Sigismund Zápolya. Your spouse already died two weeks after the birth of his son and from then on began to secure the Hungarian throne for her minor son of Isabella fight as Queen Dowager, who was elected King of Hungary ( " electus rex ").

After the capture of Buda by the troops of the Ottoman Empire in 1541, she had been assigned by the Sultan Suleiman Transylvania as a territory where they reigned in virtue of their authority on behalf of her underage son. However, the real power was in the hands of Cardinal György Martinuzzi. In the summer of 1551 she left Transylvania, which fell by the Treaty of Nyírbátor to Ferdinand I.. She returned in 1556 with her ​​son and her advisers Mihály Csáky back to Transylvania.

Isabella died on September 15, 1559 in Alba Iulia. Her grave is in the local Catholic cathedral.

Progeny

From the marriage with Johann went a son:

• Johann Sigismund Zápolya (1540-1571), 1540-1570 King of Hungary, from 1570 Prince of Transylvania