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Agnieszka Machówna
Agnieszka Machówna ( – 12 July 1681) was a Polish con artist and bigamist. Born in the peasantry, she is famous for her fraud in posing as a member of the Zborowski family. She was convicted of forgery, theft, adultery, and perjury, and was sentenced to death and executed. Life Machówna was born around 1648 in the village of Kolbuszowa. Her father, Mikaj Mach, was a military drummer and her mother was a peasant woman. She was likely baptized under the name "Jadwiga". Her mother worked as a servant at the Lubomirski Palace, and Duchess Helena Tekla Lubomirska sent Machówna to a local parish priest to teach her to read and write. She married Bartosz Zatorski, the court Cossack of the Lubomirski family, at age 16. Zatorski was prone to beating her in fits of drunken rage, and Machówna was unhappy with her life in Kolbuszowa, wanting a more opulent life than what she had there. She ran away to Kraków, and then to Warsaw. Machówna took advantage of her education an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolbuszowa
Kolbuszowa () is a small town in south-eastern Poland, with 88911 inhabitants (02.06.2009). Situated in the Sandomierz Forest in the Subcarpathian Voivodship, it is the capital of Kolbuszowa County. Kolbuszowa belongs to historic Lesser Poland, near its border with another historic region, Czerwień Cities/Red Ruthenia. History The name of the town comes from the land owner Kolbusz. It appeared for the first time in 1503 in place where Poręby Wielkie used to exist. The town, which administratively belonged to Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province, was probably founded before 1683, when it was mentioned in a trade regulating document of Józef Karol Lubomirski. Kolbuszowa was located on an important trade route from Sandomierz to Przemyśl. As the owners of the area were the Leliwa Tarnowski, Kolbuszowa belonged to Sandomierz County. With regard to the Roman Catholic Church, Kolbuszowa was within the diocese of Kraków, but in 1786 it was moved under the ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
