Editing Sigismund I the Old (section)

==Early life and coronation==
[[File:Wiener Doppelhochzeit.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Sigismund (far right) with Emperor [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]] and brother [[Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary|Vladislaus II]] in Vienna, 1515. Woodcut by [[Albrecht Dürer]]]]
Sigismund was the son of King [[Casimir IV Jagiellon]] and [[Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505)|Elisabeth Habsburg of Austria]].{{sfn|Nowakowska|2019|p=xi}} He followed his brothers [[John I Albert of Poland|John Albert]] and [[Alexander I of Poland|Alexander]] to the Polish throne.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dzieje.pl/postacie/zygmunt-i-stary |language=pl |title=Zygmunt I Stary |website=dzieje.pl |date=23 April 2019 |access-date=19 January 2024}}</ref> Their eldest brother [[Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary|Vladislaus]] became king of [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]], [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]], and [[Croatia]]. Sigismund was christened as the namesake of his maternal great-grandfather, [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund]].

When Casimir died in 1492, Sigismund was his only son without any titles or land. From 1495 to 1496, he petitioned his brother Alexander to provide him with land, and Elisabeth of Austria attempted to install him on the Austrian throne. Both efforts failed. In 1497, King John I Albert, his older brother, led an [[Moldavian Campaign (1497–1499)|invasion of Moldavia]] that was intended to place Sigismund on its throne. This, too, was a disastrous failure. Finally, his eldest brother [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|Vladislaus II]], King of Bohemia and Hungary, granted him the duchies of [[Duchy of Głogów|Głogów]] (1499) and [[Duchy of Troppau|Opava]] (1501), and in 1504 Sigismund became governor of Silesia and [[Lower Lusatia]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tafiłowski|first=Piotr|date=14 January 2012|title=Bibliotheca Corviniana: Z dziejów kultury węgierskiej w późnym Średniowieczu|trans-title=Bibliotheca Corviniana: From the History of Hungarian Culture in the Late Middle Ages|url=http://www.umcs.lublin.pl/images/media/BIN/Corviniana.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114040638/http://www.umcs.lublin.pl/images/media/BIN/Corviniana.pdf|archive-date=14 January 2012|access-date=10 September 2021|website=UMCS|language=pl}}</ref>

John I Albert died suddenly in 1501, and was succeeded by Alexander I, who died in 1506. After his death, Sigismund arrived in [[Vilnius]], where he was elected by the Lithuanian Ducal Council on 13 September 1506 as [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]], contrary to the [[Union of Mielnik]] (1501), which proposed a joint Polish-Lithuanian election of a monarch. On 8 December 1506, during the session of the Polish Senate in [[Piotrków Trybunalski|Piotrków]], Sigismund was elected King of Poland. He arrived in [[Kraków]] on 20 January 1507 and was crowned four days later in [[Wawel Cathedral]] by Primate Andrzej Boryszewski.<ref>[[Ludwik Finkel]], Elekcja Zygmunta I, Kraków 1910, s. 214.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Duczmal|first=Małgorzata|title=Jagiellonowie: leksykon biograficzny|publisher=Wydawnictwo Literackie|year=1996|isbn=83-08-02577-3|location=Kraków|page=548|trans-title=Jagiellons: biographical lexicon}}</ref>