Sigismund's mother-in-law was strangled, while Mary was liberated. However, Mary was captured, together with her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, who had acted as regent, in 1387 by the rebellious House of Horvat, Bishop Paul Horvat of Mačva, his brother John Horvat and younger brother Ladislav. The next year, he was accepted as Mary's future co-ruler by the Treaty of Győr. On the death of her father in 1382, his betrothed, Mary, became queen of Hungary and Sigismund married her in 1385 in Zólyom (today Zvolen).

King Sigismund of Hungary during the battle of Nicopolis in 1396.

Gold coin of Sigismund of Hungary with his coat of arms (right), and the image of the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (left). Instead, the landlords of Lesser Poland gave it to Mary's younger sister Jadwiga I of Poland, who married Jogaila of Lithuania.ĭrinking horn of Sigismund of Luxemburg, before 1408 King of Hungary The disagreement between Polish landlords of Lesser Poland on one side and landlords of Greater Poland on the other, regarding the choice of the future King of Poland, finally ended in choosing the Lithuanian side the support of the lords of Greater Poland was not enough to give Prince Sigismund the Polish crown. King Wenceslaus also gave him Neumark to facilitate communication between Brandenburg and Poland. In 1381, the then 13-year-old Sigismund was sent to Kraków by his eldest half-brother and guardian Wenceslaus, King of Germany and Bohemia, to learn Polish and to become acquainted with the land and its people. King Louis named him as his heir and appointed him his successor as King of Hungary. Upon his father's death in 1378, young Sigismund became Margrave of Brandenburg and was sent to the Hungarian court, where he soon learnt the Hungarian language and way of life, and became entirely devoted to his adopted country. King Louis the Great of Hungary and Poland always had a good and close relationship with Emperor Charles IV, and Sigismund was betrothed to Louis' eldest daughter, Mary, in 1374, when he was six years old. From Sigismund's childhood he was nicknamed the 'ginger fox' ( liška ryšavá) in Lands of the Bohemian Crown, on account of his hair colour. He was named after Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, the favourite saint of Sigismund's father.

He was buried in Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) next to the tomb of the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary.īorn in Nuremberg, Sigismund was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, and of his fourth wife, Elizabeth of Pomerania, the granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland. Sigismund was one of the driving forces behind the Council of Constance that ended the Papal Schism, but which in the end also led to the Hussite Wars that dominated the later period of Sigismund's life. He was also King of Italy from 1431, and of Germany from 1411. Sigismund of Luxemburg KG ( Hungarian: Zsigmond, Croatian: Žigmund, Czech: Zikmund) (14 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last Emperor of the House of Luxemburg. Sigismund of Luxembourg and Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans, King of Italy, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, was born 14 April 1368 to Charles IV of Bohemia (1316-1378) and Elisabeth von Pommern (c1345-1393) and died 9 September 1437 of unspecified causes.

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