TABLE 15 --SEYMS OF THE INTERREGNUM PERIODS |
Convocation Seym | Election Seym | Coronation Seym | King Elected |
Jan. 1573 Warsaw | Apr. 1573 Warsaw (Kamion) | Feb. 1574 Cracow | Henry Valois+ |
Aug. 1574 Warsaw | Nov. 1575 Warsaw (Wola) | Mar. 1576 Cracow | Stephen Bathory |
Feb. 1587 Warsaw | June 1587 Warsaw (Wola) | Dec. 1588 Cracow | Sigismund III Vasa (Maximilian Habsburg)* |
June 1632 Warsaw | Sept. 1632 Warsaw (Wola) | Feb. 1633 Cracow | Ladislaus IV Vasa |
July 1648 Warsaw | Oct. 1648 Warsaw | Jan. 1649 Cracow | John Casimir Vasa++ |
Nov. 1668 Warsaw | May 1669 Warsaw (Wola) | Oct. 1669 Cracow | Michał Korybut Wi¶niowiecki |
Jan. 1674 Warsaw | Apr. 1674 Warsaw (Wola) | Feb. 1676 Cracow | John III Sobieski |
Aug. 1696 Warsaw | May 1697 Warsaw (Wola, Kamion) | Nov. 1697 Cracow | Augustus II Wettin |
Apr. 1733 Warsaw | Aug. 1733 Warsaw (Wola, Kamion) | Jan. 1734 Cracow | Stanislaw Leszczyński (Augustus III Wettin)** |
May 1764 Warsaw | Aug. 1764 Warsaw (Wola) | Dec. 1764 Warsw | Stanislaw August Poniatowski+++ |
+Abdicated to become Henri III of France
++Abdicated to enter a monastery
*Outcome unsuccessfully contested by force of anns by Maximilian Habsburg
**Outcome successfully contested by force of arms by Augustus III Wettin, who finally was crowned and assumed power
+++Abdicated on the Third Partition of Poland |