Anna Maria Vasa

Anna Maria Vasa
Portrait by Martin Kober (1596)
Born(1593-05-23)23 May 1593
Kraków, Poland
Died9 February 1600(1600-02-09) (aged 6)
Kraków, Poland
Burial
Wawel Cathedral
HouseVasa
FatherSigismund III Vasa
MotherAnne of Austria

Anna Maria Vasa (23 May 1593 – 9 February 1600)[1] was a Polish princess, the eldest daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa and his first wife, Queen Anne of Austria. She was the heiress presumptive to the Swedish throne from 1593 until 1595.[a]

Life

Birth and background

Anna Maria was born on 23 May 1593 in Kraków, Poland. Her parents' marriage was a politically motivated union, aimed to maintain peace between the newly established House of Vasa and the imposing neighboring Habsburgs.[2][3]

She and her only surviving sibling, Władysław, were raised by Urszula Meyerin (1570–1635), whose influence had significantly skyrocketed since her introduction as a lady of the court of Queen Anne.[4][5]

In July 1593, the infant princess was taken to her baptism by her paternal aunt, the elder Anna Vasa of Sweden. Her great-aunt, the former Queen Anna Jagiellon, whose supervision she was left in when her father embarked on a visit to Sweden,[6] also participated in the event.[7]

Her mother died on 10 February 1598, less than three years after giving birth to her brother.[8] On the day before the second anniversary of the death of her mother, Anna Maria died from a bout of measles at the age of six in Kraków. She was buried in the Wawel Cathedral, with her coffin positioned in front of that of the ill-fated Queen Barbara Zápolya, the first wife of great-grandfather, King Sigismund I the Old.[9]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anna Maria Vasa[1]
8. Gustav Vasa
4. John III of Sweden
9. Margaret Leijonhufvud
2. Sigismund III Vasa
10. Sigismund I the Old
5. Catherine Jagiellon
11. Bona Sforza
1. Anna Maria Vasa
12. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
6. Charles II, Archduke of Austria
13. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
3. Anne of Austria
14. Albert V, Duke of Bavaria
7. Maria Anna of Bavaria
15. Anna of Austria

References

Explanatory footnotes

  1. ^ The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth functioned as an elective monarchy, which meant it did not have a fixed line of succession but instead elected its monarchs. Notably, her great-aunt, Queen Anna Jagiellon, ruled the realm with her husband, as ancient laws permitted a married woman to assume a governing role.

Citations

  1. ^ a b Wdowiszewski 2005, p. 242.
  2. ^ Czapliński 1976, p. 11.
  3. ^ Szujski 1894, pp. 155–157.
  4. ^ Czapliński 1976, p. 18.
  5. ^ Bohun & Rosalak 2007, p. 4.
  6. ^ Duczmal 2012, p. 398.
  7. ^ Duczmal 2012, pp. 397–398.
  8. ^ Czapliński 1976, p. 11 and 18.
  9. ^ Nungovitch 2018, p. 249.

Bibliography

  • Wdowiszewski, Zygmunt (2005). Genealogia Jagiellonów i Domu Wazów w Polsce [Genealogy of the Jagiellonians and the House of Vasa in Poland] (in Polish). Avalon. ISBN 9788391849729.
  • Szujski, Józef (1894). Dzieła Józefa Szujskiego. Dzieje Polski (in Polish). Vol. 3. Kraków: Szujski-Kluczycki. OCLC 717123162.
  • Östergren, Stefan (2005). Sigismund: en biografi över den svensk-polske monarken [Sigismund: a biography of the Swedish-Polish monarch] (in Swedish). Fredestad. ISBN 9789186428242.
  • Czapliński, Władysław (1976) [1972]. Władysław IV i jego czasy [Władysław IV and his times] (in Polish). Wiedza Powszechna.
  • Bohun, Bohun; Rosalak, Maciej (24 July 2007). "Władysław IV Waza 1595–1658". Rzeczpospolita and Mówią Wieki (in Polish). 23.
  • Duczmal, Małgorzata (2012). Jogailaičiai (in Lithuanian). Translated by Birutė Mikalonienė and Vyturys Jarutis. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. ISBN 9785420017036.
  • Nungovitch, Petro Andreas (13 December 2018). Here All Is Poland: A Pantheonic History of Wawel, 1787–2010. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498569132.
  • Media related to Anna Maria Vasa at Wikimedia Commons
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