Zgłobień is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Boguchwała __NOTOC__ Gmina Boguchwała is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Boguchwała, which lies approximately south-west of the regional capital ...

, within

Rzeszów County __NOTOC__ Rzeszów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

Subcarpathian Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshal, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional As ...

, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of

Boguchwała Boguchwała () is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district of Gmina Boguchwała. It was officially granted town status on 1 January 2008. The name of the town mea ...

and west of the regional capital

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...

. From before 1438 to 1611 Zgłobień was the centre of an estate in

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 ...

adjoining its boundary with

Ruthenian Voivodeship The Ruthenian Voivodeship (; ; ) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (lat. Leopolis) (modern day Lviv). Together with a number of ot ...

and the old medieval border established between 1000 and 1300 by the emergent Polish and Ruthenian states. The fortified

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...

in Zgłobień, converted into a

granary A granary, also known as a grain house and historically as a granarium in Latin, is a post-harvest storage building primarily for grains or seeds. Granaries are typically built above the ground to prevent spoilage and protect the stored grains o ...

in the nineteenth century and currently serving (after the restoration of 2010–21) as the archaeology depot of the Rzeszów Regional Museum, preserves the original layout of the interior together with brick cellar vaults, four masonry portals and two of the windows

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. With its ground floor portals dated to the second half of the sixteenth century on stylistic grounds, it would have been built for Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan (d. 1568), castellan of Kraków from 1565, and his wife Anna Sieniawska (d. 1597), the daughter of

Mikołaj Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman and the first Grand Hetman of the Crown * ...

who was the Grand Crown

Hetman ''Hetman'' is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire). First used by the Czechs in Bohemia in the 15th century, ...

in 1561–9. Their youngest daughter, Zofia, was married to

Samuel Zborowski Samuel Zborowski (died 1584) was a Polish military commander and a notable member of the ''szlachta'' (Polish nobility). He is best remembered for having been executed by supporters of the Polish king Stefan Batory and chancellor Jan Zamoyski; a ...

, the protagonist of a major political affair of the reigns of

Henry of Valois Henry of Valois may refer to: *Henry II of France (1519–1559), King of France *Henry III of France (1551–1589), King of France and Poland See also *Henri Valois Henri Valois (; September 10, 1603, in Paris – May 7, 1676, in Paris) or ...

and

Stephen Báthory Stephen Báthory (; ; ; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586) as well as Prince of Transylvania, earlier Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576). The son of Stephen VIII Báthory ...

, executed at the order of chancellor

Jan Zamoyski Jan Sariusz Zamoyski (; 19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st '' ordynat'' of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown f ...

in 1584; another daughter, Magdalena, was the sister-in-law of Andrzej Wapowski, the man killed by Zborowski at Henry's coronation in 1574 in an act that triggered the downfall of the Zborowski family. On Anna Sieniawska's death in 1597, her eldest daughter Elżbieta agreed to compensate her sisters with 8000 złoty for the advantage in productive capacity that the Zgłobień estate allotted to her enjoyed over the

Melsztyn Melsztyn is a village on the left bank of the Dunajec river in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Zakliczyn, south-west of Tarnów, and east of the regional capital Kraków. The village was first mentione ...

estate.

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