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Sigismund I the Old

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Sigismund I the Old
Portrait by Kulmbach, 1511-1518
King of Poland
Grand Duke of Lithuania
Reign8 December 1506 – 1 April 1548
Coronation24 January 1507 in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków
PredecessorAlexander I
SuccessorSigismund II Augustus
Born1 January 1467
Kozienice, Poland
Died1 April 1548(1548-04-01) (aged 81)
Kraków, Poland
Burial7 July 1548
Spouse
(m. 1512; died 1515)
(m. 1517)
Issue
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DynastyJagiellon
FatherCasimir IV of Poland
MotherElisabeth of Austria
ReligionCatholic Church
SignatureSigismund I the Old's signature

Sigismund I the Old (Polish: Zygmunt I Stary, Lithuanian: Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings John I Albert and Alexander I Jagiellon. He was nicknamed "the Old" in later historiography to distinguish him from his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus. Before ascending to the Polish and Lithuanian thrones, he was Duke of Głogów from 1499, Duke of Opava from 1501, and governor of Silesia from 1504 on behalf of his brother, King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary.