Barbara Kolanka

Barbara Kolanka or Barbara Kołówna h. Junosza (end of the 15th century–1550) was a Polish noblewoman. She is best known as the mother of queen Barbara Radziwiłł and Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł.

Barbara Kolanka
Coat of arms	Junosza
Born	End of the 15th century Dalejów
Died	1550
Family	House of Koła (by birth) Radziwiłł (by marriage)
Spouse	Jerzy Radziwiłł h. Trąby
Issue	with Jerzy Radziwiłł: Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł Anna Elżbieta Radziwiłł Barbara Radziwiłł
Father	Paweł Koła h. Junosza
Mother	Bruneta z Chodcza h. Ogończyk

Biography

A direct descendant to Elisabeth of Pilcza, the Queen consort to Ladislaus II of Poland, she was born in late 15th century to Paweł Koła (or Kola) of Dalejów and Żółtanice (1450-1509), a prominent Polish politician and his wife, Bruneta Chodkiewicz (1458-1550). ^[1] Her father was a Chamberlain (since 1490) and castellan of Halicz who in 1502 rose to the rank of Voivod of Podolia. She had three older brothers, one of whom (Jan Koła) rose to the rank of Grand Hetman of The Crown.^[2]

Marriage and issue

In ca. 1515 she married Jerzy "Herkules" Radziwiłł. They had three children:^[3]

• Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512–1584), who would later become Grand Hetman of Lithuania, married to Katarzyna Tomnicka-Lwińska h. Łodzia
• Anna Elżbieta Radziwiłł (1518–1558), married marszałek of Volhynia Piotr Kiszka h. Dąbrowa (died 1550) in 1549, and later Symeon Holszański Dubrowicki h. Hipocentaur.
• Barbara Radziwiłł (1520/1523–1551), who in 1547 secretly married king of Poland Sigismund II Augustus and was declared the Queen consort the following year; crowned in 1550 despite protests by the Sejm and the Senate.