John Gabriel Tęczyński (1484 – 21 May 1553) was a Polish nobleman. He was Chamberlain (1515) and voivode of Sandomierz (1543),

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(1518) and the governor of

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, the Speaker of the court of the Crown (1522),

of Wojnicki (1535), Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1527).

Family

Born in 1485 into the

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Topór coat of arms to mother Anna Konińska of Konin (d. after 25 December 1534) of the

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and his father Jan Koniński. His Grandfather was

Gabriel Tęczyński Gabriel Tęczyński (1572–1617) was a Polish noble who governed the Lublin Voivode during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. References 1572 births 1617 deaths Gabriel In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gab ...

(b. , d. 1497) and uncles Stanislaus Tęczyński and Andrew Tęczyński (d. 1561) (b. approx. 1480), and four sisters. His wife Dobrochna Sapieżanka h. Fox (died after 1512) was the daughter of Jana Sapiehy a royal secretary and chancellor of Queen Helena, the governor of Podlasie and Marshall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They had a son Stanislav Gabriel Tęczyński (1514–1560/1561) who was

of Lviv, and provincial governor of Kraków, and a daughter Beata Tęczyńską (born ), whose husband was John Zabrzeziński – the son of Jan Jurjewicz Zabrzeziński. His second wife Anna was the daughter of John and Anna Buczacki.

Early life

In his youth he studied at the Academy of Kraków and grew up at the court in Königsberg where he was a close confidant of Queen Bona; In 1510, together with his brothers and Stanislaw Andrzej he purchased half of Kraśnik In 1527, Emperor Charles V granted him the title of Count ''Imperia Sacri Romani'' and Polish King Sigismund I made him ambassador to the kings of Hungary and Czech.

Career

A successful politician at court, Kalendarium XVI w. - regionalista.pl
he was: * standard bearer (1516–1518), governor (1530–1552) and Castellan (1518–1535) for

, * Speaker of the court (1529–1552), * Castellan of Wojnice (1535–1542), * Governor of Sandomierz (1542–1552) and Lelow (1533–1552). * owner of the village of Kraśnik where he built a wooden church and a hospital for the poor. In 1541 he granted the town a

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day. He died on 21 May 1553 and was buried in Kraśnik.

References

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