Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (died 1545)

Elizabeth of Austria (1526–1545)

Queen of Poland from 1543 to 1545

Elizabeth of Austria was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was married to Sigismund II Augustus,…