Stanislaw Krasiński (c. 1585–1649) was a Polish-Lithuanian 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 politician. He was a known jurist: judge of the Ciechanów Land from 1627, konfederacja judge during the

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of 1632; elected twice a deputy judge of the Treasury Tribinal in Radom, in 1633, elected as the Commissioner for the Sejm Boundary Commission in Masovia and also the same year, Chief Justice of the

Crown Tribunal The Crown Tribunal (, ) was the highest appellate court in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland for most cases. Exceptions were if a noble landowner was threatened with loss of life and/or property, when he could appeal to the Sejm court (Parliament ...

of Piotrków. Krasiński was Deputy to

Sejm The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...

in the years 1634, 1635 and 1638, as well as participant of the

coronation sejm Royal elections in Poland (Polish: ''wolna elekcja'', lit. ''free election'') were the elections of individual kings, rather than dynasties, to the Polish throne. Based on traditions dating to the very beginning of the Polish statehood, strengthe ...

s of 1633 and 1649. He was marshal of the

Sejmik A sejmik (, diminutive of ''sejm'', occasionally translated as a ''dietine''; ) was one of various local parliaments in the history of Poland and history of Lithuania. The first sejmiks were regional assemblies in the Kingdom of Poland (before ...

of Masovia in 1633 and 1635. Krasiński was appointed to the

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in 1641. In 1622, he was given the title of ''wojski'' of

Różan Różan is a town in Mazovian Voivodeship, northeastern Poland, on the river Narew. National roads National road 60 (Poland), 60 and National road 60 (Poland), 61 intersect in the town. History In the late Middle Ages, Różan emerged as an impo ...

; in 1637, the title of ''podkomorzy'' of

Ciechanów Ciechanów is a city in north-central Poland, seat of the Ciechanów County in the Masovian Voivodeship. As of December 2021, it has a population of 43,495. A city with almost a thousand years of history, recorded in 1065, Ciechanów is one of ...

and in 1641 he was given the title of

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Sierpc Sierpc ( Polish: ) is a town in north-central Poland, in the north-west part of the Masovian Voivodeship, about northwest of Warsaw. It is the capital of Sierpc County. Its population is 18,368 (2010). Sierpc is a member of Cittaslow. History ...

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1580s births 1649 deaths Stanislaw Krasinski (1585-1649) 17th-century Polish judges 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian nobility {{Poland-noble-stub