Andrzej of
Sprowa
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Odrowąż was a 15th-century
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noble and statesman,
starost
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of
Ruthenia
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and
Voivode of Podolia. He is best known as the founder of the
Bernardine Church in
Lwów
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.
Biography
He belonged to the Odrowąż family. His father was the voivode of
Podolsk
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History
The first mentions of the vill ...
and Russian Piotr Odrowąż, his mother was Katarzyna Odrowąż.
Andrew's father died in battle at Krasny, near Vaslui in Moldavia on September 6, 1450. In that year Andrew became the headman of
Lviv
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and
Podolia
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Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...
, and in 1452 he received the Russian voivodeship to govern.
In 1456 he briefly became a voivode in Podolia. In 1455 he became the owner of the town of
Sędziszów
Sędziszów is a town in Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,830 inhabitants (2004). The town belongs to Lesser Poland.
Transport
Sędziszów railway station is a stop for both the PKP intercity trains and their reg ...
of
Małopolska
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. In 1458 he granted the town of
Zenków Magdeburg law
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.
In 1460 he let in the city of Lviv Bernardine monks and allocated them a place for a monastery. This is how the Lviv Bernardine Monastery appeared.
In 1463 Odrowąż was sent by the king to
Kamianets-Podolsky with an ambassadorial mission. Andrew Odrowąż died on May 1, 1465. He was buried under the altar of the church of St. Andrew in Lviv.
References
Polish nobility
Polish Roman Catholics
Year of birth missing
Andrzej
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 ...
Ruthenian nobility
1465 deaths
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