Stanisław Łubieński (1573 in
Łubna – 16 April 1640 in
Wyszków), of
Pomian coat of arms
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History
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, was a Polish noble, politician and bishop.
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of king
Sigismund III of Poland
Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632
N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Relig ...
from 1591;
regent
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of
Royal Chancellery
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from 1614,
Crown Secretary,
bishop of Łuck
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from 1622,
Deputy Chancellor of the Crown from 1626 (to 1628) and
bishop of Płock
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from 1627.
He was a
Catholic
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priest and a strong supporter of
counterreformation. Friend of the poet
Maciej Sarbiewski,
himself he was an author of many important historical chronicles of that period, among them a detailed description of
rokosz of Zebrzydowski.
Selected works
*''Brevis narratio profectionis in Sueciam Sigismundi III...'', 1593;
*''De ortu, vita et morte Mathiae de Bużenin Pstrokoński...'' (1630);
*''Ce motu civili in Polonia libri quatuor, Series. vitea, res gestes episcoporum Plocensium...'', Kraków 1642;
*'Opera posthuma historica historopolitica variigue discursus epistolae et aliquot orationes... (1643);
*''Droga do Szwecji'';
*''Rozruchy domowe''.
References
Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1573 births
1640 deaths
17th-century Polish historians
17th-century Polish male writers
Polish male non-fiction writers
17th-century Polish nobility
Bishops of Płock
Abbots of Tyniec
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
People from Sieradz County
Crown vice-chancellors
17th-century Christian abbots
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