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Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572

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Personal name headingSigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572
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Variant(s)Zygmunt II August, King of Poland, 1520-1572
Sigismund II, King of Poland, 1520-1572
Sigismund Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572
Sigismundus Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572
Zygmunt August, King of Poland, 1520-1572
Associated countryPoland Lithuania
Birth date1520-08-01
Death date1572-07-07
Place of birthKraków (Poland)
Place of deathKnyszyn (Poland)
Profession or occupationKings
Found inColumbia encyc. (Sigismund II or Sigismund Augustus, 1520-72, king of Poland (1548-72))
Ocherk istorīi Litovsko-Russkago gosudarstva do Li︠u︡blinskoĭ unīi vkli︠u︡chitelʹno, 1915: p. 318, etc. (Sigismundus Augustus Rex)
New encyc. Brit. (Sigismund II Augustus; b. 8/1/1520, d. 7/7/1572; last Jagiellon king of Poland; crowned co-ruler with his father in 1530, assumed control of Poland after father's death in 1548)
Zygmunt August, c2003.
Wikipedia, August 16, 2021 (Sigismund II Augustus; born August 1, 1520, Kraków, Poland; died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn, Poland; King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548)