princess isabella fortuna ottoman empire

Isabella received a good education, including from humanist Johannes Honter, and she could speak and write four languages: Polish, Latin, German, and Italian (her mother's native language). This episode foreshadowed future family relationships: Bona Sforza favored her oldest daughter, arranging her marriage early, while the other three daughters were neglected and married late. During the latter visit her three younger sisters were left in Kraków. She also lived in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1527––36. She spent most of her childhood at Wawel Castle in Kraków and the hunting castle in Niepołomice. She returned in October 1556 and ruled as her son's regent until her death in September 1559.īiography Early life and marriage plans īorn in Kraków on 18 January 1519, Isabella was the oldest child of King Sigismund I the Old and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. Sultan Suleiman retaliated and threatened to invade Hungary in 1555–56 forcing nobles to invite Isabella back to Transylvania.

She returned to her native Poland to live with her family. įerdinand, however, never renounced his claims to reunite Hungary and conspired with Bishop George Martinuzzi who forced Isabella to abdicate in 1551. The region developed as a semi-independent buffer state noted for its freedom of religion. Her husband's death sparked renewed hostilities but Sultan Suleiman established her as a regent of the eastern regions of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary on behalf of her infant son. She spent the rest of her life embroiled in succession disputes on behalf of her son. While Isabella's marriage lasted only a year and a half, it did produce a male heir – John Sigismund Zápolya born just two weeks before his father's death in July 1540. At the time Hungary was contested between Ferdinand of Austria who wanted to add it to the Habsburg domains (see Royal Hungary), local nobles who wanted to keep Hungary independent (see Eastern Hungarian Kingdom), and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who saw it as a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire (see also Little War in Hungary). In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland, and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. Isabella Jagiellon (Hungarian: Izabella királyné Polish: Izabela Jagiellonka 18 January 1519 – 15 September 1559) was the queen consort of Hungary.

Princess isabella fortuna ottoman empire