Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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He was a wise, clear minded, active, and just ruler, and a valiant warrior, the very king needed by Poland, threatened as she was by numerous enemies.
The name of great bestowed upon him is certainly not undeserved, but
At the outset he was involved in a war with Russia, a war which, with occasional interruptions, was to last two centuries.
He also had to repulse the Tartars, who made a devastating raid into Poland.
He held his own against both his foes.
The Tartars he defeated so completely at Visniovitz, in fifteen twelve, that they are said to have left twenty four thousand on the battlefield.
Over the Russians he won a brilliant victory at Orsa in fifteen fourteen.
A new antagonist arose in the Teutonic Order, eager to free itself from the burden of Polish suzerainity.
But the knights were unsuccessful, and their grandmaster, Albert of Brandenburg, was glad to conclude with Zigismund the Peace of Krakow in fifteen twenty five, by which East Prussia became a temporal duchy, a fief of the Polish crown, and Albert, as its hereditary duke, was given the foremost place among the Polish senators.
The same year Zigismund obtained still another advantage.
The Piast branch of the Dukes of Mazovia became extinct, and their important territory, embracing Warsaw, Potsk, Poutusk, was united to the Polish kingdom, of which it had hitherto been independent.
Poland was rid of the Tartars by the pressure of the Turks upon them, and the treaty which Sigismund concluded with the latter ensured him security against those robbers.
In fifteen forty six, the
With the Russians, in spite of occasional armistices, the struggle was continued, but on the whole it resulted favorably to the Poles.
In the midst of all these military enterprises, Zigismund found time to foster learning, to encourage agriculture and industry, to free the navigable streams of tolls, and to redeem numerous royal estates and sources of income that his predecessors had pawned.
It was he who gave a permanent organization to the Zaporgian Cossacks along the rapids of the Dniper, and made of these bold warriors an excellent defence against the Tartars.
It must be said, however, that the peasantry, the Kmetz, were more completely enslaved under his reign than before, and deprived even of the right to send their children to school or to have them taught a trade.
In his old age, he died at eighty two, he fell entirely under the influence of his wife, Bonas Forza, a daughter of the Ducal House of Milan, who provoked many uprisings by her intrigues and her fierce attacks against the rights of the nobles.
Zigismund I died on april first, fifteen forty eight, in the midst of general discontent.
His only son, Sigismund II, increased the dissatisfaction of the nobility by ratifying publicly a secret marriage he had contracted with Barbara Rajiviu, and thus, in appearance at least, assigning to her family a position far above that of the other nobles.
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