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    noblemen held the office of Castellan of Wojnicz. In 1239, after Princess Kinga of Poland was engaged to Bolesław V the Chaste in Wojnicz, the settlement was...
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  • in the Lodz Voivodeship, and Wojnicz now in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Otmuchów in Silesia. In France, castellans (known in French as châtelains)...
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    became the widow of the castellan of Wojnicz and castellan of Sandomierz. Shortly before 9 November 1555 she became the wife of Hetman Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski...
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    Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski (category Counts of Poland)
    Rożnów and Stare Sioło. Secretary of King Sigismund II Augustus since 1554, held offices of castellan of Wojnicz, starost of Sandomierz, Stryj and Dolina....
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    Jan Wielopolski the elder (category Counts of Poland)
    administrator of royal salt-pits in Bochnia from 1649, castellan of Wojnicz from 1655 and voivode of Kraków Voivodship from 1667. Starost of Biecz, Warsaw...
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    Lithuania and Poland grew closer. Lithuania adopted Polish institutions of castellans and voivodes. Catholic Lithuanian nobles and church officials were granted...
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    Wilamowice (category Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria)
    Christopher Korycinski (castellan of Wojnicz), between 1707 and 1719 Władysław Morsztyn and his wife Helena née Kalinowska; to the end of the 19th century the...
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    from 1509, starosta of Inowrocław from 1510, starosta of Nowy Sącz from 1512, starosta of Zator from 1513, Castellan of Wojnicz from 1513, Gran Steward...
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  • Greater Castellan of Wojnicz, Seat: Wojnicz Greater Castellan of Gniezno, Seat: Gniezno Greater Castellan of Sieradz, Seat: Sieradz Greater Castellan of Łęczyca...
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    Jan Tarnowski (category Castellans of Kraków)
    Tarnowski was the owner of Tarnów, Wiewiórka, Rożnów, Przeworsk, and Stare Sioło. In 1522, he became castellan of Wojnicz; in 1527, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodeship;...
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  • wojewoda) of Sandomierz (since 1568), voivode and starosta of Kraków (since 1574), castellan (kasztelan) of Biecz (since 1565) and castellan of Wojnicz (since...
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    work of art. Chess is dedicated to "Jan Krzysztof, count of Tarnów, castellan of Wojnicz." Tarses, the king of Denmark, has a daughter named Anna. Of the...
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    Sebastian Lubomirski (category Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    castellan of Małogoszcz since 1591, Biecz since 1598, Wojnicz since 1603 and starost of Sandomierz, Sącz and of Spisz. Lubomirski had two consorts, Anna Branicka...
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    Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795) (category Voivodeships of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    senators: the Bishop of Kraków, the Castellan of Kraków, the Voivode of Kraków, the Castellan of Wojnicz, and Castellans of Nowy Sącz, Biecz and Oświęcim....
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  • in 1620–1640, when it belonged to Michał Stanisław Tarnowski, the Castellan of Wojnicz. A town hall was built, the medieval church at Miechocin was expanded...
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    the castellan of Wojnicz, Lublin and Sandomierz, the starosta of Kraków, who participated in the Battle of Grunwald and commanded the siege of the Malbork...
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    and other important figures of the Polish Renaissance. According to Bartosz Paprocki, Jan Tęczyński, Castellan of Wojnicz, "at great cost built a new...
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    eastwards, to Wojnicz. He then turned south, to Nowy Wiśnicz, Nowy Sącz, and the Polish border. The garrison of Kraków, under Castellan Stefan Czarniecki...
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  • Mikołaj Firlej (1588–1635) (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    politician. Starost of Kazimierz Dolny from 1596, Lublin from 1614; castellan of Bielsk Podlaski from 1615, Wojnicz from 1618; voivode of Sandomierz from...
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  • archbishops) of the Commonwealth; territorial, that is voivodes, or regional governors, and castellans, or caretakers of castles; ministers of the royal...
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    including Wojnicz, Czchow, Nowy Targ, Zakliczyn, Muszyna and Grybow. After the first partition of Poland (1772), Nowy Sacz County became part of Austrian...
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  • Dunajec river castles (category History of Lesser Poland)
    southwest of Tarnów, and 3 kilometers south of Wojnicz. The castellan of Kraków, Spicymir (Leliwa coat of arms) started the construction of Melsztyn Castle...
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    Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki (category Castellans of Kraków)
    1655. In the first period of the Swedish "Deluge" he was commander of Husarian and Pancerni squadrons in the Battle of Wojnicz on 2 October 1655, but soon...
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    succeeded him. Like his father, he took the regency of Bolesław and his Duchy of Sandomierz. In 1239 in Wojnicz, the 13-year-old Bolesław met his bride, the...
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    Tarnów (redirect from History of Tarnów)
    later, construction of a castle on the St. Martin Hill was completed by Castellan of Kraków, Spycimir Leliwita of Leliwa coat of arms (its ruins can still...
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    Biecz (category Populated places in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria)
    executioners were sent to the towns of Jasło, Rymanów, Dukla, Dębowiec, Rzeszów, and Wojnicz. The sheer number of executions enacted gave rise to the...
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