Jakub Szczawiński (1577–1637) was a noble (

szlachcic The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social class, a ...

) in the

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, of Prawdzic Coat of Arms. He held the offices of voivode of Brześć Kujawski (1622–163

and

starosta Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', ) is a community elder in some Slavic lands. The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...

łeczycki (1620–1637). He was also the

Marshal of the Sejm The Marshal of the Sejm (, ) is the speaker (chair) of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament. The office traces its origins to the 15th century. In modern Poland, the full title is Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (). ...

in 1616 (26 April to 7 June). He grew up in Borysławice and married Anna Karnkowska. Note that since that Jakub Szaczawiński died in 1637, he is not the Jakub Szczawiński, also voivode of Brześć Kujawski, who became famous 15 years later for vocally criticizing Władysław Siciński (''Bodaj przepadł''), the petty noble who was the first to use the infamous ''

liberum veto The ''liberum veto'' (Latin for "free veto") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current s ...

'' during the

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of 1652.

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Date of birth, death, wife
1577 births 1633 deaths 17th-century Polish nobility 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian nobility {{Poland-noble-stub