Walenty Dembiński

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Walenty Dembiński as imagined by Jan Matejko, woodcut, 1876

Walenty Dembiński (died 1585)

Chancellor of Poland from 1564 to 1576. As Chancellor, Dembiński greatly contributed to the signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569.[2]

References

  1. ^ Bem, Kazimierz. Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548–1648. Another example of a "religious politique" was the chancellor Walenty Dembiński (d. 1584), Historians, who favor a black-and-white perspective, clas- sify him as a Catholic, since he died and was buried as one.
  2. ^ Lerski, Halina. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. DEMBIŃSKI, WALENTY (?-1585), Crown Chancellor in 1564-1576, Castellan of Cracow from 1567, and a leader of the "Execution-of-the-Law" movement. Though a devout Catholic, he refused to fight Protestant dissidents and often served as an intermediary in religious disputes. He contributed to the signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569.