Isabella Jagiellon [SEP] mother
Isabella Jagiellon
Isabella Jagiellon (; ; 18 January 1519 – 15 September 1559) was the oldest child of Polish King Sigismund I the Old, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary, becoming Queen consort of Hungary. At the time Hungary was contested between Archduke 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
personality; she was not afraid to openly disagree with her husband and acted as a patron to artists. However, unlike Isabella, Bona was able to build up her own political faction in her marital homeland. In her final years, Isabella saw her daughter become a mother to four of her six children, amongst them were Isabella and Anna Jagiellon. Not giving up on uniting the rival branches of the Sforza family, Isabella sent envoys to Poland to propose marriage of her granddaughter, the younger Isabella, to Francesco II Sforza