Isabella, Queen, consort of Janos I Zapolya, King of Hungary, 1519-1559

LC control no.	n 2009041513
Personal name heading	Isabella, Queen, consort of Janos I Zapolya, King of Hungary, 1519-1559 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Szapolyai, Isabella Sforza, 1519-1559 Jagiełło, Isabella, 1519-1559 Jagiellon, Isabella, 1519-1559 Isabella, Queen, consort of Janos I Zapolya, King of Hungary, d. 1559
Found in	Forsey, Alicia McNary. Queen Isabella Sforza Szapolyai of Transylvania and Sultan Süleyman of the Ottoman empire, c2009: CIP introd. (Isabella Sforza Szapolyai, 1519-1559; "One year into her marriage to John Szapolyai, King of Hungary, John died, leaving Isabella a widow at age twenty-one. Ferdinand's Habsburg's troops immediately set off for Buda to claim what Ferdinand believed to be his. Isabella sent a call for help to Constantinople. The Sultan's troops arrived with unusual speed, ending the battle that was underway. Knowing that he could not leave a young woman and her child in the position of defending Buda as Queen of Hungary, the Sultan sent her with her son to Transylvania") Wikipedia, July 7, 2009 (Isabella Jagiełło, Isabella Jagiellon; b. Jan. 18, 1519, in Krakow, Poland; d. Sept. 15, 1559, in Transylvania; Queen of Hungary and consort of John Zápolya) Hungarian electronic library database, July 7, 2009 (Isabella (1519-1559); Queen of Hungary, wife of John Szapolyai. After the death of King John in 1540 and the fall of Buda (1541) she moved to Transylvania and tried to secure her rule with Ottoman help. In 1551 she was forced by György Fráter to resign in favour of Ferdinand I and to leave Transylvania. In 1556 she was called back from Poland and ruled the principality until her death in 1559) LC database, July 7, 2009 (old cat hdg.: Isabella, Queen, consort of Janos I Zapolya, King of Hungary, d. 1559)