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    (Jan Albert Waza) (25 June 1612 – 29 December 1634) was a Polish cardinal, and a Prince-Bishop of Warmia and Kraków. He was the son of Sigismund III Vasa...
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    Sigismund III Vasa (Polish: Zygmunt III Waza, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania...
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    John II Casimir Vasa (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Lithuanian: Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand...
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    the court of Polish king Zygmunt III Waza and his wife Constance of Austria, later at the court of Władysław IV Waza. In 1636, Lipski was ordained as...
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    1648-1655 Charles Ferdinand Vasa (Karol Ferdynand Waza) 1655-1666 John II of Poland (Jan Kazimierz Waza) - King of Poland 1666-1742 possession of the House...
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    envoy of Polish cavalry, discussed delayed payments with King Zygmunt III Waza. By 1605, he already was a Rittmeister of a Cossack choragiew, with which...
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  • Zygmunt III Waza. In 1592 he became a Master of the Pantry of the Crown (Polish: stolnik nadworny). In his political views, he was a follower of Jan Zamoyski...
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    particularly in 1635 and 1639, when he could not walk. Polish: Władysław IV Waza; Lithuanian: Vladislovas Vaza; Swedish: Vladislav IV av Polen; Russian: Владислав...
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    voivode was Parnawa (Pärnu). The voivodeship was created by King Zygmunt III Waza, and it was based on the Parnawa Presidency, created by King Stefan Batory...
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    candidates - Zygmunt Waza was elected by the nobility on the 19th of August, while another faction of the gentry chose Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria...
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  • III Waza (also King of Sweden): Anna Maria (1593-1600) Katarzyna (1594) Władysław (1595-1648) (later King) Katarzyna (1596-1597) Krzysztof (1598) Jan...
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    Prince Charles Ferdinand Vasa (Polish: Karol Ferdynand Waza; 13 October 1613 in Warsaw – 9 May 1655 in Wyszków), was a Polish prince, priest, Bishop of...
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    Aquariums (WAZA). The Warsaw Zoo served as a hiding place for Jews and escapees from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Zookeepers Jan and Antonina...
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    Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The voivodeship was created by King Zygmunt III Waza in 1598, out of the Dorpat Presidency, which had existed since the Truce...
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    various Kings of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Zygmund III Waza, Władysław IV and Jan III Sobieski. The current look of the complex comes from the turning...
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    months) after the death of king Sigismund III Vasa in 1632, before the royal election of Władysław IV Waza. As the interrerx he supported improving the...
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    with capitals at Dorpat, Wenden and Parnawa (...) In 1598, King Zygmunt III Waza renamed the presidencies into voivodeships (...) Since Livonia was greatly...
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    forces with Tatars commanded personally by Islam III Giray. When news of this reached King Jan Kazimierz Waza, he decided to abandon his positions in Bar,...
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    founded on 20 January 1661, when King John II Casimir in Polish Jan II Kazimierz Waza of Poland granted a charter to the city's Jesuit Collegium, founded...
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    ISBN 9789633862049. Retrieved 23 January 2019. Jan Widacki, Kniaź Jarema p. 255. Zbigniew Wójcik, Jan Kazimierz Waza, p. 75; Władysław Czapliński, Glosa do Trylogii...
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    Polish Crown Jewels were stolen and destroyed by King Frederick William III of Prussia in March 1809 after the Third Partition of Poland, remaining pieces...
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    Warszawa 1985, ISBN 83-05-11452-X, str. 119–122 Henryk Wisner: Zygmunt III Waza. Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich – Wydawnictwo, 2006, s. 199–202...
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  • of the Polish cardinals, namely Fryderyk Jagiellończyk, Jan Olbracht Waza and Jan Kazimierz Waza, were of royal blood. The latter was elected king of Poland...
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    Elbow-high and dukes like Bolesław III Wrymouth. The dynasty's rule over Poland ceased with the death of Casimir III the Great in 1370. In the same year...
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    in 1637, attempted to create a permanent Commonwealth Navy. Władysław IV Waza who took the throne in 1632 bought 12 ships, and built a dedicated port for...
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    the 17th century, the earlier years of the reign of Sigismund III Vasa (Zygmunt III Waza), who in cooperation with the Jesuits and some other Church circles...
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    Arkady. p. 149. ISBN 978-83-213-2958-1. Zbigniew Wójcik (1997). Jan Kazimierz Waza (in Polish). Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 186. ISBN 978-83-04-04353-4...
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    Sermon of Piotr Skarga (category Paintings by Jan Matejko)
    compared to Skarga. Sigismund's son, prince and future king Władysław IV Waza, stands above and to the left of the king. To his right, two women - Queen...
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    Lipski 56 1632–1633 Jan Olbracht Waza 57 1635–1642 Jakub Zadzik 58 1642–1657 Piotr Gembicki 59 1658–1679 Andrzej Trzebicki 60 1681–1699 Jan Małachowski 61...
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    it was first rebuilt in 1660 for King John II Casimir (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza, from whom it takes its name) and again in 1765–68, by Domenico...
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