Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland

Queen of Poland

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1533

Place of Birth: Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1572

Profession: aristocrat

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Catherine of Austria (Polish: Katarzyna Habsburzanka; Lithuanian: Kotryna Habsburgaite; 15 September 1533 – 28 February 1572) was one of the fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.
In 1553, she married Polish King Sigismund II Augustus and became Queen consort of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania.
Their marriage was not happy and they had no children together.
After a likely miscarriage in 1554 and a bout of illness in 1558, Sigismund became increasingly distant.
He tried but failed to obtain a divorce from the pope.
In 1565, Catherine returned to Austria and lived in Linz until her death.
Sigismund died just a few months after her bringing the Jagiellon dynasty to its end.



Description	- painter, engraver and politician
Date of birth/death	4 October 1515	25 January 1586
Location of birth/death	Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Work period	Renaissance
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority control	: Q170339 VIAF: 24706489 ISNI: 0000 0001 2277 5534 ULAN: 500017755 LCCN: n80131754 WGA: CRANACH, Lucas the Younger WorldCat