Skłodowski Family

The Skłodowski (originally Skłot, later also Skłotowski) family is a Polish noble family, members of whom variously used the Jastrzębiec and Dołęga coats of arms.

History

The Skłodowski family originated in the village of Skłoty (now Skłóty) in Mazovia's Płock land. The earliest recorded family member was ''Velislaus'' (Welisław) ''de Sclothowo'', who appeared in the Łęczyca court book on 20 June 1391. In the 16th century a family branch using the surname Krasznicki ''seu'' (Latin: "or") Sclothowski settled in the village of Kraśnica in Konin County. Descendants of this branch later appeared in Lviv County and the Duchy of Siewierz. They used the surname Sarnowski. In the 17th century another branch settled in Vitebsk Province of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In the 15th and 16th centuries a substantial part of the family moved to empty areas of Podlasie and Mazovia, establishing noble villages ('' zaścianki''). From the 16th century the Skłodowski family of the Jastrzębiec coat of arms lived in the villages of Skłody-Borowe, Skłody Wróble, and Skłody Ziemianie in Podlasie. Another branch settled in Mazovia's Nur land, in the villages of Skłody-Stachy, Skłody-Średnie, and Skłody-Piotrowięta, next to each other along the Brok River near Zaręby Kościelne. This branch used the Dołęga coat of arms.

This was typical petty ''szlachta'' (nobility) who farmed the land and sustained themselves mainly by their own labor. In the mid-17th century, Maciej Skłodowski, who originated from Skłody-Piotrowięta, achieved a higher standing. A distinguished soldier, he acquired the village of Rząśnik and, on marrying Agnieszka Ponikowska, also came into possession of the villages of Ponikiew Wielka and Ponikiew Mała. He engaged in a prolonged legal dispute over these estates with , starost of Ciechanów. His son Seweryn, having no heirs, in 1706 donated the estate for charitable purposes and to family members and asked to be buried beneath the threshold of the church in Goworowo.

Maciej Skłodowski had a brother, Jakub, who had a son, Seweryn Skłodowski. Seweryn and his descendants lived in Skłody-Piotrowięta. His great-great-grandson was Urban Skłodowski, whose son was Józef Skłodowski, headmaster of the Lublin '' gymnasium'' (secondary school). Józef's son was biologist Władysław Skłodowski. Władysław's children, from his marriage to Bronisława Boguska, included physicians Józef Skłodowski and Bronisława Dłuska, educational activist Helena Skłodowska-Szalay, and physicist and Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie.

See also

* Coat of arms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie

References

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* {{Cite journal , last=Sadaj , first=Henryk , date=1982 , title=Skłodowscy. Przodkowie i współcześni Marii Skłodowskiej Curie , trans-title=The Skłodowski Family: Ancestors and Contemporaries of Maria Skłodowska Curie , url=https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/article/download/1764/1755/#:~:text=Urban%20Sk%C5%82odowski%20by%C5%82%20pradziadkiem%2C%20a,opu%C5%9Bci%C5%82%20rol%C4%99%20i%20zosta%C5%82%20pedagogiem.&text=W%20osobie%20dziadka%20J%C3%B3zefa%20Sk%C5%82odowskiego%20Maria%20znajdowa%C5%82a%20wz%C3%B3r%20do%20na%C5%9Bladowania. , journal=Roczniki Humanistyczne , language=pl , volume=XXX , issue=2

Polish noble families