Taczanowski (Polish feminine: Taczanowska; plural: Taczanowscy) is the surname of a Polish

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 ...

(

nobility Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy (class), aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below Royal family, royalty. Nobility has often been an Estates of the realm, estate of the realm with many e ...

) family from

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

bearing the

Jastrzębiec coat of arms Jastrzębiec () is one of the most ancient Polish coat of arms. Dating back to the 10th century, it has been used by Poland's oldest szlachta families — Poland's Immemorial nobility — and remains in use today. History Legend of the coat of ...

and the motto: ''Plus penser que dire''. They took their name from their estate Taczanów in the 15th century and by the 19th century were among the leading

magnate The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

s in partitioned-Poland. Members of the family are historically significant religious, political, scientific, and military figures. The family was granted the title of

count Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...

by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

in 1857. The Austrian branch of the family, which spells the name

Dassanowsky The Dassanowsky family (also Dassanofsky, Dassanovsky, etc.) is the name of the Austrian branch of the Polish noble magnate family Taczanowski which came to Vienna in 1683 and has produced notable figures in Austrian civic and cultural life. Dassan ...

, came to Vienna with the forces of King

Jan Sobieski John III Sobieski ( pl, Jan III Sobieski; lt, Jonas III Sobieskis; la, Ioannes III Sobiscius; 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. Born into Polish nobility, Sobie ...

during the

Battle of Vienna The Battle of Vienna; pl, odsiecz wiedeńska, lit=Relief of Vienna or ''bitwa pod Wiedniem''; ota, Beç Ḳalʿası Muḥāṣarası, lit=siege of Beç; tr, İkinci Viyana Kuşatması, lit=second siege of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mou ...

in 1683.

Notable members

Notable members include: * Jan Scibor Taczanowski (15th century-1468), voivode of

Łęczyca Łęczyca (; in full the Royal Town of Łęczyca, pl, Królewskie Miasto Łęczyca; german: Lentschitza; he, לונטשיץ) is a town of 13,786 inhabitants () in central Poland. Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the county seat of the ...

c. 1437 *

Andrzej Taczanowski Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew. Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej * Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer * Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and ma ...

(c. 1660-18th century), knight commander under King Sobieski during the Turkish Siege (

) of 1683 * Rafael Taczanowski (18th century), head of the Jesuit Order in Poland * Jan Taczanowski (1753-19th century), Lord High Steward of Trembowia * Maksymilian Taczanowski (177?-1852), landowner and national revolutionary * Count Alfons Anton Felix von Taczanow-Taczanowski (1815–1867), member of the Prussian House of Lords * Władysław Taczanowski (1819–1890), zoologist * Wladislaw von Taczanowski (1825–1893), politician; Prussian parliamentary representative * Edmund Taczanowski (1833–1879), general and Polish patriot; in Italy with Giuseppe Garibaldi * Hubert Taczanowski (1960- ), cinematographer * Tomasz Józef Taczanowski (1956- ), movie entrepreneur, collector of modern art

Coat of arms

image:POL COA Taczanowski.svg, Coat of Arms of Count Alfons Taczanowski (1854)

Selected literature

* ''Gothaisches Taschenbuch der gräflichen Häuser'', Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1857–1870 * P. P. Paprocki, ''Herby Rycerstwa polskiego'', Kraków 1858 * ''Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Ritter- und Adelsgeschlechter'' (Brünner Taschenbuch), Brünn 1890 * Teodor Zychlinski, ''Zlota Ksiega szlachty polskiej'', Poznań 1879–1908 * Stefan Graf von Szydlow-Szydlowski und Nikolaus R. von Pastinszky, ''Der polnische und litauische Hochadel'', Budapest 1944 * Simon Konarski, ''Armorial de la noblesse polonaise titrée'', Paris 1958 * Günther Berger, "Die Familie v. Dassanowsky: Die kaisertreue österreichische Linie des polnischen Grafenhauses Taczanowski zu Taczanow," ''Krone und Reich: Zeitschrift des Verbandes der Österreicher zur Wahrung der Geschichte Österreichs'', 1/2 1999, 13–15. * '' Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels'', Adelslexikon Band XIV, Band 131 der Gesamtreihe,

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, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, . {{surname-stub

Notable members

Coat of arms

See also

Selected literature