SIGISMUND II AUGUSTUS


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All the citizens both of Poland and of Lithuania ought to form an indivisible whole .... They must love each other with a deep, sincere, fraternal love, like the members of one body, like inhabitants of one and the same republic.
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See {640107} for another quotation creating this so called union. It made great sense to the King, but little to the Poles and Lithuanians who each saw themselves as a very different people and wanted little to so with the other.

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Sigismund II Augustus
© Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586)
Sigismund II Augustus
  • Born: August 1, 1520
  • Died: July 7, 1572
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Sigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty.