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33 Facts About Catherine Jagiellon

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Catherine Jagiellon negotiated with the pope to introduce Counter-Reformation in Sweden.

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Catherine Jagiellon was given a thorough Renaissance education by Italian tutors: she was taught to read, write and speak Latin, German and Italian, instructed in conversation, riding, dancing, singing, and playing several musical instruments.

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Catherine Jagiellon was described as the most beautiful of her sisters, but she was married late for a princess of the era because her family wanted to ensure a marriage of the highest political status for Poland, and the marriages proposed to her demanded protracted negotiations which ultimately came to nothing.

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Catherine Jagiellon's brother was inclined to the latter, but after lengthy negotiations, the Pope refused the marriage because they were related to each other.

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Catherine Jagiellon's brother viewed the proposal favourably and a Russian delegation visited the Polish court in Vilnius.

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The Russian envoy reported to Ivan the Terrible that Catherine Jagiellon was beautiful, but that she was crying.

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Catherine Jagiellon brought a large entourage and luxurious possessions, but the inheritance from her mother was actually never given to her.

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Tradition claims that when the king made the offer, Catherine Jagiellon pointed to the inscription in her wedding ring, which said: Nemo nisi mors.

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Catherine Jagiellon was used as a valuable hostage by Eric, but because of her, the imprisonment was lenient.

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Catherine Jagiellon was personally treated with consideration by king Eric, who allowed her greater freedom than John, such as walking in the area around the castle, and generally granted all requests she made in order to make her imprisonment more comfortable, with the exception of anything that had to do with her Catholic religion, such as the access to Catholic priests, which he denied.

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Catherine Jagiellon asked for the larger part of her entourage to be sent home, only keeping some Polish ladies-in-waiting and her Court dwarf and personal confidante Dorothea Ostrelska.

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Catherine Jagiellon played some part in the rebellion: she was a friend of one of Erik's enemies, Ebba Lilliehook, who had an influential position within the nobility, and she was directly approached by Pontus De la Gardie, who appealed to her to persuade the indecisive John to join the rebellion against the King in protest of his scandalous marriage.

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Catherine Jagiellon was crowned queen of Sweden in the spring of 1569.

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Catherine Jagiellon's ladies-in-waiting were supervised by Karin Gyllenstierna and her household by chamberlain Pontus De la Gardie, with whom she reportedly had a very good personal relationship.

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Catherine Jagiellon had her own personal Catholic chapel at court as well as several Catholics in her private household, among them several Catholic monks and priests, which shocked the Protestants.

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Catherine Jagiellon received many supplicants from both Catholics and Protestants, asking her for charity as well as to act as mediary to the king, and fulfilled these duties as was expected by a contemporary queen consort.

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Catherine Jagiellon's fervent Protestant brother-in-law, the future Charles IX mentioned her in his propaganda chronicle Hertig Karls rimkronika, in which he slanders the names of her spouse, son and daughter, but with only mild disapproval toward Catherine, acknowledging her personal qualities: "She was a Princess full of virtue and piety, still her faith did come from Rome".

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Queen Catherine Jagiellon had political influence and influenced the monarch in many areas, such as his foreign policy and his interest in Renaissance art.

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John III named Catherine Jagiellon the prospective regent of Sweden during the minority of his son, should he die while his son was a minor.

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Catherine Jagiellon brought up both her children in the Catholic faith, which made Sigismund acceptable as a Polish monarch.

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Catherine Jagiellon answered that she was willing, but that the monarch and the public would not accept it.

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From 1572, Queen Catherine Jagiellon was in direct contact with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, who declared that he would serve as her support and ally in the work of counter-reformation in Sweden and her messenger to the Pope.

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Catherine Jagiellon's demands are seen as a way for John III to investigate how far the Catholic church would be willing to go to introduce the Counter-Reformation, as certain changes would have to be made to make it possible.

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Queen Catherine Jagiellon had the son of the deposed Eric XIV sent to the Jesuit order in Poland in 1573.

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Catherine Jagiellon welcomed the Norwegian Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai from Rome and housed him in the former Franciscan monastery in Stockholm, which had been closed during the Reformation, and allowed him to open a Catholic school there.

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Queen Catherine Jagiellon strongly supported the old Vadstena Abbey, where the last nuns still lived, and often visited it.

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Queen Catherine Jagiellon had her own personal ambassadors in Rome to protect her interests, Petrus Rosinus and Ture Bielke.

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Catherine Jagiellon had been given the task of providing Catherine with her Sforza inheritance, mediating between Poland and Sweden and converting John III.

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Catherine Jagiellon did confirm the marriage between the royal couple, which had been dubious in Rome, as it had lacked the dispensation which was necessary for Rome to consider a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant as valid.

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In 1582, Catherine Jagiellon received the Polish ambassador Alamanni and explained that she was not in a position to convince John to make peace with Poland.

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Catherine Jagiellon was, by testament, one of the heirs of her nephew John Sigismund Zapolya, ruler of Transilvania.

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The image of Catherine Jagiellon enjoyed a resurgence in the 19th and 20th centuries Finnish culture and art.

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John and Catherine Jagiellon were the only Swedish monarchs to reside in the Finnish part of the Swedish realm for any length of time, and their alleged fondness for the land inspired Finnish nationalists.