Stanisław Zamoyski (1519–1572) was a Polish nobleman (
szlachcic
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in th ...
). He was
Łowczy of
Chełmno since 1561,
castellan
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of Chełmno since 1566,
Court Hetman of the Crown and
starost
The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...
of
Belz
Belz ( uk, Белз; pl, Bełz; yi, בעלז ') is a small city in Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, located between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Belz hosts the administ ...
.
He was married to Anna Herburt and had three children with her:
Jan Zamoyski, Feliks Zamoyski and
Anna Zamoyska
The House of Zamoyski (plural: Zamoyscy) is the name of an important Polish noble ( szlachta) family, which used the Jelita coat of arms. It is the Polish term for "de Zamość" (Polish "z Zamościa"), the name they originally held as lords of ...
. He was later married to Anna Orzechowska with whom he had two children: Elżbieta Zamoyska and Zofia Zamoyska.
1519 births
1572 deaths
Court Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Stanislaw
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