Katarzyna Telniczanka (1480–1528), was a Polish noble. She was the royal mistress of king

Sigismund I the Old Sigismund I the Old ( pl, Zygmunt I Stary, lt, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the ...

, and the mother of three children by the monarch.

Life

She became the mistress of the king . She became the mother of

John of the Lithuanian Dukes John of the Lithuanian Dukes (''Jan Ochstat de Thelnicz'', lt, Jonas iš Lietuvos kunigaikščių, pl, Jan z Książąt Litewskich; 8 January 1499 – 18 March 1538) was Bishop of Vilnius (1519–36) and of Bishop of Poznań (1536–38). He was t ...

, future bishop of Poznań (8 January 1499 – 18 February 1538), Regina (1500/1 – 20 May 1526), wed c. 20 October 1518 Hieronim Szafraniec,

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 ...

Cieszyn Cieszyn ( , ; cs, Těšín ; german: Teschen; la, Tessin; szl, Ćeszyn) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitant ...

(d. 1556/59), and Katarzyna (1503 – before 9 September 1548), wed after 1522 George II Count von Montfort in Pfannberg (d. 1544). In 1509, she married the nobleman

Andrzej Kościelecki Andrzej Jędrzej Kościelecki (b. 1455, d. 1515) was a Marshal of the household of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellończyk, starosta of Bydgoszcz from 1485, starosta of Świecie from 1487, Marshal of the Court from 1501, starosta of Spiš from 1507, ...

. She had one child while married,

Beata Łaska z Kościeleckich Beata Łaska z Kościeleckich (1515-1576), was a Polish magnate heiress. She was reputed to be the illegitimate daughter of king Sigismund I the Old. She was the daughter of Andrzej Kościelecki and Katarzyna Telniczanka Katarzyna Telniczanka ...

, who was reputed to be the child of the king as well. She followed her son John to his position in Lithuania, where she had great influence in his court.

References

* Wdowiszewski Z., Genealogia Jagiellonów i Domu Wazów w Polsce, Kraków 2005, pp. 182–186. {{DEFAULTSORT:Telniczanka, Katarzyna 1480 births 1528 deaths 16th-century Polish people Mistresses of Polish royalty 16th-century Polish women 15th-century Polish women 15th-century Polish nobility