Zenon Kazimierz Wysłouch (1727–1805) was a chamberlain of the Brzeskie Voivodeship and a member of the

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. Born on the Leżajka family estate (Polesie, currently

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) as the first son of Antoni Stanisław and Joanna Kościa-Zbirohowska, Zenon was educated at Jesuit and Piarist Collegiums and later at the elite Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw. In 1750 he returned to Brzeski region to become the secretary of the lesser seal and in 1758 he was nominated as the sword bearer of the Brzeskie

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, a member of the Head Tribunal and a scribe of the Treasury Tribunal in

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. In 1781 Zenon became the chamberlain (podkomorzy) of the Brzeskie Voivodeship. In 1790-1792 Zenon was a member of the

for the Brzeskie Voivodeship, the Polish parliament that created the

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, the second oldest in the World. He was associated with

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Patriotic Party The Patriotic Party (), also known as the Patriot Party or, in English, as the Reform Party, was a political movement in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the period of the Four-Year Sejm (Great Sejm) of 1788–1792, whose chief achieveme ...

,Józef Geresz, "Wybory w okresie bezkrólewia 1764 r." Echo Katolickie 03-07-2009. a political movement advocating reforms aiming to secure Poland's independence from Russia. In 1766 Zenon married Honorata Oreszko and received her family's Pirkowicze estate as a dowry. In place of the ruined house erected there in the 16th century by the bishop Cyryl Terlecki, the co founder of the

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, Wysłouch built a manor house surrounded by an elegant park. He also funded the construction of a unionist church in Pirkowicze, where he was later buried.

References

;Citations ;Bibliography * Wysłouchowa, "Echa Polesia (introduction)". London, Polska Fundacja Kulturalna, 1979. * Jonca, Seweryn Wysłouch, in: Uczeni wrocławscy (1945–1979) (edited by Jan Trzynadlowski), Ossolineum, Wrocław, 1980 * Bartoszewicz "Konstytucja 3go Maja", Warszawa 1989.

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„Wysłouchowie z Pirkowicz (Polish)“

"Wysłouch Family Tree (beginning with Zenon Kazimierz Wysłouch)"
Sejm Wielki.pl Portal {{DEFAULTSORT:Wyslouch, Zenon Kazimierz 1727 births 1805 deaths Zenon Kazimierz Members of the Great Sejm 18th-century Polish nobility Polish courtiers

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