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Sigismund is a common name.

Sigismund of Burgundy (Saint Sigismund), king
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, also king of Luxembourg and of Hungary
Sigismund of Austria
Sigismund of Bavaria
Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland-Lithuania (1506-1548)
Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland-Lithuania (1548-1572)
Sigismund I/III Vasa, King of Sweden as Sigismund I(1592-1599), King of Poland-Lithuania as Sigismund III (1587-1632).
Sigismund Bathory, prince of Transylvania
The name of Siegmund, a focal character in Wagner's Die Walküre, may be related to this name.

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Sigismund - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin (1514 words)
Sigismund, son till Johan III och den polska prinsessan Katarina, dotter till Sigismund I av Polen, föddes den 20 juni 1566 under föräldrarnas fångenskap 1563-1567 på Gripsholms slott och blev genom faderns tronbestigning 1569 närmaste arvinge till den svenska kronan.
I Polen blev Sigismund inte populär; han var "alltför tystlåten, envis, långsam, njugg och mjältsjuk" (Olof von Dalin), och hans böjelse för gunstlingar och sidoinflytanden framträdde från början.
Sigismund fortsatte emellertid abdikationsförhandlingarna och äktade i samband därmed ärkehertiginnan Anna av Steiermark, dotter till ärkehertig Karl av Steiermark, i Kraków i maj 1592.
Sigismund of Burgundy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (260 words)
Sigismund (died 523) was king of the Burgundians from 516 to his death.
Sigismund was a student of bishop Saint Avitus of Vienne, the Catholic bishop of Vienne who converted Sigismund from the Arian faith of his Burgundian forebears.
Sigismund was inspired to found a monastery dedicated to Saint Maurice at Agaune in Valais in 515.
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