Jan Dobrogost Bonawentura Krasiński (', 10 June 1639 – 21 February 1717) was a Polish
nobleman (
szlachcic).
Biography
He was the son of
Jan Kazimierz Krasiński and Ursula Grzybowska. In his youth he studied in the Netherlands and France. Jan became a Royal Colonel (''pułkownik królewski'') in 1665, and became
Recorder of the Crown and
voivode
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of
Płock Voivodeship
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in 1688. He was also
starost of
Łomża,
Warsaw
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,
Nowe Miasto Korczyn,
Przasnysz
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,
Sztum, and
Opinogóra Górna.
In 1673, he took part in the victorious
Battle of Khotyn.
Linked with the court of
John III Sobieski, he was an ally, adviser and a friend of the king. He participated in the
Battle of Vienna in 1683 commanding a
winged hussars squadron.
He became an elector at the court of King
Augustus II the Strong in 1697.
Krasiński was a great patron of the arts and founder of many art galleries in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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. Between 1682 and 1695 he ordered to build a magnificent palace in
Warsaw
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, known today as the
Palace of the Commonwealth.
He was buried in
Węgrów.
References
17th-century births
1717 deaths
Jan Dobrogost
Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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