1587 Polish–Lithuanian royal election

1587 Polish-Lithuanian Free election
June 30, 1587 (1587-06-30) - August 19, 1587 (1587-08-19)
 
Candidate Sigismund Vasa Archduke Maximilian
Party supported by the
Jagiellonian Faction		 supported by the
Pro-Habsburg Faction
Kings before election

Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon

 Elected King

Sigismund III Vasa

The free election of 1587 was the third royal election to be held in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which took place after the death of King Stefan Batory. It began on June 30, 1587, when Election Sejm was summoned in the village of Wola near Warsaw, and ended on December 27 of the same year, when King Sigismund III was crowned in Kraków’s Wawel Cathedral.

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