 Complete the following phrase:  In 1587, Sigismund Vasa  the son of John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon  won the election, but his claim was overtly contested by Maximilian III of Austria, who launched a military expedition to challenge the new king. His defeat in 1588 at the hands of Jan Zamoyski sealed Sigismunds right to the throne of Poland and Sweden. Sigismunds long reign marked an end to the Polish Golden Age and the beginning of the Silver Age. A devout Catholic with despotic tendencies, he hoped to restore absolutism and imposed Roman Catholicism during the height of the Counter-Reformation. His hatred towards the Protestants in Sweden sparked a 