Piotr Firlej (died 1553) was a Polish nobleman (
szlachcic).
Firlej married
Katarzyna Teczynska and together they had three children:
Jan Firlej
Jan Firlej (c. 1521, Dąbrowica, Lublin County – 1574, Kock) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), and Calvinist activist.
Jan became Great Marszałek, Marshal of the Crown in 1563 and starost of Kraków in 1572. He agreed with the candidature ...
,
Mikołaj Firlej and
Andrzej Firlej.
Piotr became
voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the ...
of
Lublin Voivodship
The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, Che ...
in 1537 and voivode of
Ruthenian Voivodship
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Latin: ''Palatinatus russiae'', Polish: ''Województwo ruskie'', Ukrainian: ''Руське воєводство'', romanized: ''Ruske voievodstvo''), also called Rus’ voivodeship, was a voivodeship of the Crown of ...
in 1545. In 1514 he participated in the
Battle of Orsza and was a trusted adviser of Queen
Bona Sforza and King
Zygmunt II August. He founded the cities of
Janowiec
Janowiec is a village in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Janowiec. It lies approximately south-west of Puławy and west of the regional capital Lublin ...
and
Lubartów
Lubartów () is a town in eastern Poland, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the capital of Lubartów County and the Lubartów Commune. Historically it belongs to Lesser Poland.
Lubartów was established in 154 ...
and built castles there.
15th-century births
1553 deaths
Polish nobility
Piotr
Lublin Voivodes
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