Szembek is a

Polish coat of arms The coat of arms of Poland is a white, crowned eagle with a golden beak and talons, on a red background. In Poland, the coat of arms as a whole is referred to as ''godło'' both in official documents and colloquial speech, despite the fact that ...

used by the

Szembek Szembek or originally von Schönbeck is the name of an old Polish noble family of German origin, whose members held significant positions in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. History First mentioned at the beginning of the 14th century, th ...

szlachta 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 the ...

family in the times of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

. This family originated from Tyrol, their name

Schönbeck Schönbeck is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district), Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. This is the headquarters of German beer-making in the northeastern pa ...

was polonized around 1566.

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Jan Szembek Count Jan Sebastian Szembek''’ (1672-1731) was a Polish szlachcic. Recorder of the Crown since 1699, Vice-Chancellor of the Crown in 1703–1711, Grand Chancellor of the Crown since 1712. Starost of Łomża Łomża (), in English known as ...

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