father house death_date mother succession birth_place death_place burial_date burial_place consort birth_date coronation issue spouse image article_title name reign
stephen zápolya house of zápolya 2 october 1515 hedwig of cieszyn queen of poland grand duchess of lithuania trenčín -lrb- most likely -rrb- kraków 18 october 1515 wawel cathedral yes 1495 8 february 1512 wawel cathedral hedwig died age 5 -rrb- , electress of bradenburg anna of poland -lrb- sigismund i of poland barbara zápolya.jpg barbara zápolya
 barbara zápolya 8 february 1512 -- 2 october 1515
barbara zápolya

barbara zápolya -lrb- 1495 -- 1515 -rrb- was queen of poland and grand duchess of lithuania as the first wife of king sigismund i the old .
marriage to barbara represented an alliance between sigismund and the house of zápolya against the habsburgs in succession disputes over the throne to the kingdom of hungary .
the alliance was short-lived as the renewed muscovite -- lithuanian war forced sigismund to look for habsburg allies .
the marriage was loving , but short .
barbara was the mother of hedwig , electress of bradenburg , but died soon after the birth her second daughter anna .
