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Zofia Jagiellonka: Warsaw to Wolfenbüttel

Zofia Jagiellonka

On 28th January 1556 the Polish princess Zofia Jagiellonka, sister of King Zygmunt August of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, left Warsaw for Wolfenbüttel, marrying the 66-year-old Duke Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on 24th February. She was thirty-three years of age.

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