Jan "Sobiepan" Zamoyski (1627–1665) was a Polish nobleman (

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 ...

) and

magnate The term magnate, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

. Jan was the 3rd Ordynat of the

Zamość Zamość (; ; ) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...

Ordynacja estates. He was General of

Podolia Podolia or Podillia is a historic region in Eastern Europe located in the west-central and southwestern parts of Ukraine and northeastern Moldova (i.e. northern Transnistria). Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...

from 1637, Krajczy of the Crown from 1653, Podczaszy of the Crown from 1655,

voivode Voivode ( ), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode ( ), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Mid ...

Kijów Voivodeship The Kiev Voivodeship (; ; ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of ...

(

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

, also Kiev) from 1658, voivode of

Sandomierz Voivodeship Sandomierz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland region and the Lesser Poland Province. Originally Sandomier ...

from 1659,

starost 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 ...

of Kałusz and Rostoki.Urzędnicy centralni i nadworni Polski XIV-XVIII wieku. Spisy / oprac. Krzysztof Chłapowski, Stefan Ciara, Łukasz Kądziela, Tomasz Nowakowski, Edward Opaliński, Grażyna Rutkowska, Teresa Zielińska. Kórnik, 1992, s. 104. He married Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien on 3 March 1658 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. In spite of their loveless marriage, they had four children, all of whom died in early childhood: * Ludwika Maria (April 1659 – May 1659). * Son (born and died January 1660). * Katarzyna Barbara (5 December 1660 – December 1662). * Daughter (May 1664 – August 1664). Jan died on 2 April 1665, and his widow married her lover Jan Sobieski just over three months later, on 14 July of the same year. As Zamoyski had no surviving children, Ordynat of the Zamość Ordynacja estates eventually passed to his distant relative Marcin Zamoyski, who came from a younger branch of the family.

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1627 births 1665 deaths Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Jan "Sobiepan" People from Sandomierz 17th-century Polish landowners {{poland-noble-stub