Sigismund III Vasa, Polish and Swedish king (died 1632)

Sigismund III Vasa

Ruler of Poland-Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and of Sweden from 1592 to 1599

Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Religiously zealous, he imposed Catholicism across the vast realm, and his crusades…