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Key facts
- Reign
- 27 August 1492 – 17 June 1501
- Coronation
- 23 September 1492
- Predecessor
- Casimir IV
- Successor
- Alexander I
- Born
- 27 December 1459, Kraków , Kingdom of Poland
- Died
- 17 June 1501 (1501-06-17) (aged 41), Toruń , Kingdom of Poland
- Burial
- July 1501, Wawel Cathedral , Kraków
- Dynasty
- Jagiellon
- Father
- Casimir IV of Poland
- Mother
- Elizabeth of Austria
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johann
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Kraków
- Place of death
- Toruń
- Father
- Casimir IV Jagiellon
- Mother
- Elisabeth of Habsburg
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- King of Poland
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Family
- Jagiellonian dynasty
- Image
- Johann Albrecht von Polen.jpg
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- place of burial
- Wawel Cathedral
- Commons category
- John I Albert of Poland
- date of birth
- 1459-12-27
- date of death
- 1501-06-17
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- name in native language
- Jan I Olbracht
- P6482
- John I Albert
- P8168
- Zhang Ju
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Encyclopedic overview
John I Albert (Polish: Jan I Olbracht; 27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501) was King of Poland from 1492 to his death and Duke of Głogów from 1491 to 1498. He was the fourth Polish sovereign from the Jagiellonian dynasty and the son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria.
Related to the House of Habsburg, John Albert was groomed to become emperor in the Holy Roman Empire, a plan that ultimately failed. He was well-educated and tutored by scholars such as Johannes Longinus and Callimachus, whom he had subsequently befriended. Heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance, John sought to strengthen royal authority at the expense of the Catholic Church and the clergy. In 1487, he led a force against the Ottoman Empire and defeated the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate during the early phase of the Polish–Ottoman War. In the aftermath of the Bohemian–Hungarian War, John Albert attempted to usurp Hungary from his elder brother Vladislaus, but on 20 February 1491, he renounced his claim to Hungary in exchange for the Duchy of Głogów and the suzerainty over half of Silesia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John I Albert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.