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(1566–1632), king of Poland (1587–1632)
and, as Sigismund I, of Sweden (1592–99). The son of King
John III of Sweden and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sigismund
I of Poland, Sigismund III was born June 20, 1566, in Gripsholm,
Sweden. He was elected king of Poland by the Sejm (parliament) in
1587 and succeeded to the Swedish throne on the death of his father.
Unpopular in Protestant Sweden because of his Roman Catholicism,
he was deposed in 1599 and replaced by his uncle, who became Charles
IX. In Poland Sigismund came into frequent conflict with the szlachta (gentry)
and with his chancellor, Jan Zamojski (1542–1605), who
opposed his policy of alliance with Austria. He defeated a revolt
by the gentry in 1606–7 but ultimately failed to wrest
power away from the Sejm. In 1596 he moved the capital from Kraków
to Warsaw and won the submission of his Ukrainian subjects to Roman
Catholicism. He tried unsuccessfully to conquer Russia during the “Time
of Troubles” (see
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SIGISMUND III. (1566–1632), king of Poland (1587–1632) and, as Sigismund I, of Sweden (1592–99). The son of King John III of Sweden and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sigismund I . . .
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