Zgłobień is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Boguchwała
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Gmina Boguchwała is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Boguchwała, which lies approximately south-west of the regional capital ...
, within
Rzeszów County,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of
Boguchwała
Boguchwała (; uk, Боґух́вала) is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district of Gmina Boguchwała. It was officially granted town status on 1 January 2 ...
and west of the regional capital
Rzeszów.
From before 1438 to 1611 Zgłobień was the centre of an
estate in
Sandomierz Voivodeship
Sandomierz Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo Sandomierskie, la, Palatinatus Sandomirensis) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland ...
adjoining its boundary with
Ruthenian Voivodeship
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 ...
and the old medieval border established between 1000 and 1300 by the emergent Polish and Ruthenian states. The fortified
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
in Zgłobień, converted into a
granary in the nineteenth century and currently serving (after the restoration of 2010–21) as the archaeology depot of the Rzeszów Regional Museum, preserves the original layout of the interior together with brick cellar
vaults, four masonry
portals and two of the windows
in situ. With its ground floor portals dated to the second half of the sixteenth century on stylistic grounds, it would have been built for Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan (d. 1568),
castellan of Kraków
A castellan is the title used in Medieval Europe for an appointed official, a governor of a castle and its surrounding territory referred to as the castellany. The title of ''governor'' is retained in the English prison system, as a remnant o ...
from 1565, and his wife Anna Sieniawska (d. 1597), the daughter of
Mikołaj
Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people:
In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility:
* Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of sou ...
who was the Grand Crown
Hetman
( uk, гетьман, translit=het'man) is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders.
Used by the Czechs in Bohemia since the 15th century. It was the title of the second-highest military co ...
in 1561–9. Their youngest daughter, Zofia, was married to
Samuel Zborowski
Samuel Zborowski (died 1584) was a Polish military commander and a notable member of the ''szlachta'' (Polish nobility). He is best remembered for having been executed by supporters of the Polish king Stefan Batory and chancellor Jan Zamoyski; an ...
, the protagonist of a major political affair of the reigns of
Henry of Valois and
Stephen Báthory, executed at the order of chancellor
Jan Zamoyski in 1584; another daughter, Magdalena, was the sister-in-law of Andrzej Wapowski, the man killed by Zborowski at Henry's coronation in 1574 in an act that triggered the downfall of the Zborowski family. On Anna Sieniawska's death in 1597, her eldest daughter Elżbieta agreed to compensate her sisters with 8000
złoty for the advantage in productive capacity that the Zgłobień estate allotted to her enjoyed over the
Melsztyn estate.
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Villages in Rzeszów County
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