Barbara
Zápolya (1495–1515). Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as
the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old from 1512 to 1515. Marriage
to Barbara represented an alliance between Sigismund and the House of
Zápolya against the Habsburgs in succession disputes over the throne to
the Kingdom of Hungary. The alliance was short-lived as the renewed
Muscovite–Lithuanian War forced Sigismund to look for Habsburg allies.
The marriage was loving, but short. Barbara was the mother of Hedwig,
Electress of Bradenburg, but died soon after the birth of her second
daughter Anna. Her first daughter was Hedwig Jagiellon.
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