Jakub Sobieski
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Jakub Sobieski (5 May 1590 – 23 June 1646) was a
Biography
Sobieski was educated in Kraków and
After his marriage to
Official career
He was
Character
He was considered by his contemporaries a wise and honorable person. Member of many commissions and diplomatic bodies, he often acted as a mediator or as a guardian of orphaned children. In politics, he usually supported king's plans, but was also a defender of the nobility rights and religious tolerance.
Children
- Marek became starost.
- John became Marshal, Hetman and King of Poland.
- Katarzyna married Władysław Dominik Zasławski and Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł.
- Anna Rozalia became a Lwów.
Works
During the Chocim expedition in 1621 he wrote a diary called Commentariorum chotinensis belli libri tres (Pamiętnik wojny chocimskiej - Diary of the Chocim War), which was published in 1646 in Danzig. It was used by Wacław Potocki as a basis for his epic poem, Transakcja wojny chocimskiej (The Progress of the War of Chocim).
He authored Commentariorum Chotinensis belli libri tres (1646) and instructions for his sons journeying to Kraków (1640) and France (1645) which are seen as a prime example of liberal education of that era.[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7818-0637-4. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
External links
- (in Polish) Jakub Sobieski, entry from PSB
- Jakub Sobieski, the King's Father at the Wilanów Palace Museum
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