Countess Zofia Tarnowska (1534–1570) was a
Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman
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and heiress.
She was the daughter of
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 ...
Jan Amor Tarnowski
Jan Amor Tarnowski (Latin: Joannes Tarnovius; 1488 – 16 May 1561) was a Polish nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. He was Grand Crown Hetman from 1527, and was t ...
h.
Leliwa
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and
Zofia Szydłowiecka h.
Odrowąż.
Marriage and issue
Zofia married Prince
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (2 February 1526 – 13 or 23 February 1608, also known as ''Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozkyi'', uk, Костянтин-Василь Острозький, be, Канстантын Васіль Астрожскi, lt, Konst ...
and had five children:
*
Elżbieta Ostrogska (died 1599), married
voivode
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of
Brześć Litewski
Brest ( be, Брэст / Берасьце, Bieraście, ; russian: Брест, ; uk, Берестя, Berestia; lt, Brasta; pl, Brześć; yi, בריסק, Brisk), formerly Brest-Litovsk (russian: Брест-Литовск, lit=Lithuanian Br ...
Jan Janusz Kiszka h.
Dąbrowa and later
Krzysztof Mikołaj "Piorun" Radziwiłł h.
Trąby in 1593
*
Janusz Ostrogski
Prince Janusz Ostrogski () (1554 – 17 September 1620 in Tarnów) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble and statesman. He served as a voivode of Volhyn (1584-1593), as a castellan of Kraków (from 1593 on), and as a starosta of Bohuslav (from 1591), B ...
(1554-1620), was married to Zuzanna Seredi,
Katarzyna Lubomirska and
Teofilia Tarło
*
Katarzyna Ostrogska (1560–1579), married
Krzysztof Mikołaj "Piorun" Radziwiłł h.
Trąby in 1578
* Konstanty Ostrogski (died 1588), married
Aleksandra Tyszkiewicz h.
Leliwa
Leliwa is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several hundred szlachta families during the existence of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and remains in use today by many of the descendants of these families. The ...
*
Aleksander Ostrogski (1571-1603), married
Anna Kostka h.
Dąbrowa
See also
*
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...
Bibliography
* Podhorodecki Leszek, ''Sławni hetmani Rzeczypospolitej'', Warszawa 1994, s. 43, 65–66, 73.
References
1534 births
1570 deaths
Polish Roman Catholics
Zofia
Ostrogski family
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