Jan Szczęsny Herburt (12 January 1567 – 31 December 1616) was a

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political writer, diplomat and a member of the Polish

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parliament. An early supporter of

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, he took part in many

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s, most notably to

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, the Vatican and the

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. He supported the election of King

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to the throne, but then became his adversary and joined the leaders of the infamous Zebrzydowski Rebellion in 1607. As a rebel, he was imprisoned by royalists from 1607 to 1609. Herburt was an author of many rebellion-related and anti-

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treaties. He was also a founder of the Kudryntsi Castle. Jan Szczęsny Herburt hailed from a Polonized German-Ruthenian family.Dziuba, O.
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and attempted to protect the Eastern Orthodox minority in the east from

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. His initiative of printing the Stanisław Orzechowski annals and Jan Dlugosz chronicles was criticized by Sigismund III who suspended the publication and confiscated his

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estates.

Bibliography

* ''Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej'' – Nowy Korbut, t. 2 Piśmiennictwo Staropolskie, ''Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy'', Warsaw 1964, pages 259-263

References

Polish rebels 1567 births 1616 deaths Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth {{Poland-noble-stub