Barbara Zápolya

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Barbara Zápolya
Coronation	on February 8, 1512 in the Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland
Coat of Arms
Parents	Stephen Zápolya, Jadwiga of Cieszyn
Consort	Sigismund I of Poland
Date of Birth	1495
Date of Death	October 2, 1515
Place of Death	Kraków, Poland
Place of Burial	Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

Barbara Zápolya (1495 – 1515) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of king of Poland Sigismund I the Old.

She was the daughter of a Hungarian noble, Stefan Zápolya^[1], and Polish princess Jadwiga Cieszyńska. Barbara was a younger sister of future King of Hungary János Szapolyai.

She was the mother of Jadwiga Jagiellon (1513-1573) and Anna.^[1] After her death, Sigismund ordered the construction of the Sigismund's Chapel at Wawel Castle, where she was buried.^[2]

[edit] Ancestors

Szapolyai László

Stephen Zápolya

Dorothea

Barbara Zápolya

Bolesław I of Cieszyn

Przemysł II of Cieszyn

Eufemia of Masovia

Jadwiga of Cieszyn

Bolesław IV of Warsaw

Anna of Warsaw

Barbara of Ruthenia

[edit] References

Barbara Zápolya House of Zápolya Born: 1495 Died: 2 October 1515
Royal titles
Preceded by Helena of Moscow	Queen of Poland 1512-1515	Succeeded by Bona Sforza