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  PGSA - Herbarz Polski (Bi)
Paprocki adds that this Jan was a descendant of the Germans whom King Herman of Poland took prisoner in 1094 having fought off the invading Czechs.
-Mikolaj was Piltyn starosta in 1686, and earlier Jan Blumberk stood for the election of Wladyslaw IV in Livonia.
Jan Schedeland -- or, as others write his name, Szotlant -- bishop of Chelmno, used the Boncza arms, as I discussed under the bishops of Chelmno.
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 Polish Renaissance Warfare - Swedish Polish War 1600-09
Zamojski formed four canon opposite the castle together with Scottish and German infantry under Faresenbach.
On 26th June Zamojski, with 2,900 cavalry, moved on to Bialy Kamien and its 700 defenders.
Zamojski sent Zolkiewski with a few hundred cavalry to destroy the Swedish cavalry which were standing at Rewel.
www.jasinski.co.uk /wojna/battles/1600-Sw/1600-Sw-06.htm   (1362 words)

  
 Jan Zamoyski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Zamoyski (dressed in red) on the left side from King Stefan Batory at Psków.
However, from the very beginning of Sigismund III's reign, Zamoyski, who was once a staunch supporter of the Commonwealth kings, joined the opposition against the monarch's intentions of transforming the Commonwealth into an absolute monarchy.
Jan Zamoyski is one of the characters in the famous painting by Jan Matejko: Sermon of Skarga.
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 Zamojski Jan: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Jan Szczepanski, who is close to being a Marxist sociologist, goes even further.
ZAMOJSKI, JAN both: yan zamoi ske, 1542 1605, Polish statesman, general, and author...of Europe.
With his chancellor, Jan Zamojski, Stephen fought several successful campaigns against Ivan IV of Russia in the lengthy war for the succession to...
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The election was held in the shadow of conflict between the Polish nobility (szlachta), with the two opposing sides gathered around Chancellor Jan Zamoyski and the Zborowscy family.
Lesser Prussian Treasurer Jan Dulski representing the Crown Marshall Andrzej Opaliński proclaimed him to be the king.
Sigismund III Vasa is one of the personages in a famous painting by Jan Matejko, depicting the preaching of Piotr Skarga.
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 Polish Renaissance Warfare - Army Composition, Hetman commanderss
In the late 16th Century Jan Zamojski was made Grand Royal Hetman until "the last hour of his life" and this status remained for all later Grand Hetmans.
He defeated the Wallachians at Bukowa (1600) and captured the Swedish held towns of Wolmar, Felin and Bialy Kamien in the war for Livonia (1601-1602).
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560-1621, Grand Lithuanian Hetman from 1605).
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 AllRefer.com - Jan Zamojski (Polish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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Jan Zamojski[both: yAn zAmoi´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1542–1605, Polish statesman, general, and author.
He championed the rights of the lesser nobility; after the extinction (1572) of the Jagiello dynasty, he used his influence to restrict the royal power with constitutional limitations, thus transforming Poland into a royal republic.
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » History of Poland (1569-1795)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1660 Jan Kazimierz would be forced to renounce his claims to the Swedish throne and acknowledge Swedish sovereignty over Livonia and city of Riga.
When Jan II Kazimierz abdicated in 1668, the population of the Commonwealth had been nearly halved by war and disease.
Augustus II of Saxony, who succeeded Jan Sobieski, involved Poland in Peter the Great’s war with Sweden, incurring another round of occupation and devastation by the Swedes between 1704 and 1710.
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 Jan Zamoyski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Zamo&347;&263;, Poland Jan Zamoyski (also known as Jan Zamojski) 1542-1605, was a Polish szlachcic, magnate, 1st Ordynat of the Zamosc estate.
In 1563 he wrote De senatu Romano, a brochure about the Ancient Rome, in which he sought to apply constitutional principles of republican Rome to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Jan Zamoyski After the extinction of the Jagiello dynasty in 1572 during the election sejm (Polish sejm konwokacyjny) he used his influence to enforce the victrom election procedure (meaning all nobles had the right to vote for the king) and for the majority voting procedure.
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 Serwis WWW Miasta Zamoscia
Kanclerz i hetman wielki koronny, założyciel Zamościa i Ordynacji Zamojskiej, Jan Zamoyski urodził się 19 marca 1542 roku w Skokówce jako syn Stanisława i Anny z domu Fulsztyn Herbartów Zamoyskich.
Po śmierci króla Jan Zamoyski dał się poznać jako skuteczny przywódca szlachty, obrońca trwałości unii Polski z Litwą, swobód obywatelskich i tolerancji religijnej.
Zwycięskie bitwy, które Jan Zamoyski toczył w imieniu Rzeczypospolitej, zasługi na polu reformowania państwa i polityki zagranicznej oraz mecenat kulturalny sytuują go wśród najwybitniejszych postaci w dziejach Polski.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Zamojski
Zamojski, Jan ZAMOJSKI, JAN [Zamojski, Jan], 1542-1605, Polish statesman, general, and author.
He championed the rights of the lesser nobility; after the extinction (1572) of the Jagiello dynasty, he used his influence to restrict the royal power with constitutional limitations, thus transforming Poland into a
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 Gothic towns of Poland - SkyscraperCity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The chronicler Jan Długosz mentioned Szydłów in the context of Tatar invasion: In 1241, troops from Little Poland fought a battle with Tartars "at the village of Chmielnik near the town of Szydłów." It is the evidence that Szydłów was considered a town as early as the beginning of the 13th century.
According to the notes of Jan Długosz, during the Christianisation of Silesia the first suffragan diocese was created in Smogorzewo near Namysłów.
At the city walls of Byczyna on 24 January 1588 Jan Zamojski (1542-1605), the commander-in-chief of the Polish troops (Hetman) defeated the army of Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, a claimant to the Polish throne.
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 Purdue professor chronicles how his family fooled Nazis, escaped
"By sheer chutzpah and bravado, my mother was able to acquire the identity papers of the Zamojskis, a Polish family of noble lineage, by assuming the role of the countess and posing for her family's 'lost' papers.
Melson was only 4 years old when his family changed their names and identities in an attempt to survive the holocaust.
His parents, Willy and Nacia, of Warsaw, became Countess Nina and Count Jan. (The real Count Jan Zamojski died this summer).
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 The Galileo Project
1610-12, taught mathematics to Jan Zamojski, son of the statesman and aristocrat, Thomas Zamojski.
Nothing is said about his first appointment in Louvain, but no university chair was gained without patronage.
He was acquainted with the Polish mathematicians Jan Brozek, with whom he corresponded.
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 Zamojski, Jan - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
ZAMOJSKI, JAN [Zamojski, Jan], 1542-1605, Polish statesman, general, and author.
Author not available, ZAMOJSKI, JAN., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006
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 Polish History & Culture
The great figure of this time was the chancellor Jan Zamojski.
The Peace of Oliva (1660) cost Poland considerable territory, and by the Treaty of Andrusov (1667) the E Ukraine passed to Russia.
John III (Jan Sobieski), the savior of Vienna temporarily restored Polish greatness, but with his death Poland virtually ceased to be an independent country.
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 Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election was disputed by another candidate, Sigismund III Vasa, prince of Sweden, grandson of Sigismund I the Old.
When Maximilian attempted to resolve the dispute by bringing a military force and starting the war of Polish succession, he was defeated at the Battle of Byczyna by the supporters of Sigismund III, the proclaimed king, under the command of Polish hetman Jan Zamojski.
He was taken captive and released only after intervention by Pope Sixtus V.
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 zamojski jan - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Lublin Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
Directions: This is another nice town situated close to Kazimierz Dolny in the Lublin region.
Another member of the Zamojski noble family, Konstanty Zamojski (Jan Zamojski was a creator of Zamosc, details on my POLAND PAGE), enlarged the palace in the late 19th century.
The Zamojski Museum received a very prestigious award, 'Europa Nostra,' in 1997.
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