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'Anna Jagiellon' (Polish: 'Anna Jagiellonka' 1523 - 1596), daughter of Poland's King Zygmunt I the Old, elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, wife of Stefan Batory, was one of the last members of the Jagiellon dynasty.
She became King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was an heir to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Anna was a spinster when her brother King Zygmunt II August died. On December 13, 1575 she was elected in Warsaw King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. In 1576 she married Stefan Batory (1533-1586) at Wawel, then Reigning Prince of Transylvania, who become King consort to Anna Jagiellon. She survived her husband and died childless.
Her heir was the only son of her youngest sister, Catherine of Poland, Queen of Sweden - Sigismund Vasa. Anna helped him, after her husband's death, gain the Polish throne as Sigismund III Vasa.
Anna died as Dowager Queen of Poland during her nephew Sigismund's reign, in her own country where she had been born and had lived.
Anna Jagiellon is one of the persons who figure in a famous painting by Jan Matejko depicting the preaching of Piotr Skarga.

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Ancestors

Ancestors

'Anna Jagiellon's ancestors in three generations'

'Anna Jagiellon'	'Father:' Sigismund I the Old	'Paternal Grandfather:' Casimir IV Jagiellon	'Paternal Great-grandfather:' Jogaila
			'Paternal Great-grandmother:' Sophia of Halshany
		'Paternal Grandmother:' Elisabeth of Austria	'Paternal Great-grandfather:' Albert II of Germany
			'Paternal Great-grandmother:' Elisabeth II of Bohemia
	'Mother:' Bona Sforza	'Maternal Grandfather:' Gian Galeazzo Sforza	'Maternal Great-grandfather:' Galeazzo Maria Sforza
			'Maternal Great-grandmother:'
		'Maternal Grandmother:' Isabella of Naples	'Maternal Great-grandfather:' Alfonso II of Naples
			'Maternal Great-grandmother:' Ippolita Maria Sforza