Krzysztof Tuczyński de Wedel

Krzysztof Tuczyński de Wedel , also Krzysztof Wedel-Tuczyński ( German  Christoph von Wedel-Tütz ; * 1565 in Tütz ; † 1649 ibid) was a Polish senator .

Life

Wedel-Tuczyński was the son of the Polish landowner Stanisław Wedel -Tuczyński (1516–1587) and Katarzyna Opalińska , a daughter of Maciej Opaliński, castellan of Ląd ( Greater Poland ). After the death of his mother, he grew up in a Catholic part of the Opaliński family in Poznan. Unlike his parents, who professed Protestantism, he became a staunch advocate of Catholicism. He attended the Poznan Jesuit College and universities run by Jesuits : in 1583 he was enrolled in Dillingen and in 1585 in Ingolstadt . He then undertook trips to Italy between 1587 and 1590 while his possessions, which were mainly in the north of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, were administered by his uncle, Grand Marshal Andrzej Opaliński.

From 1593 he tried to return the Protestant residents of his estates, who had been Protestant since around 1546, to Catholicism. The process was violent. Wedel-Tuczyński met resistance initially from the citizens. After the first newly appointed Catholic priest in Tütz died in 1596 injuries that he sustained in the course of armed conflict, Wedel-Tuczyński had two leaders of Tütz Protestantism, the mayor and a councilor, publicly beheaded. A significant part of the residents subsequently fled across the nearby border to the Protestant Neumark. Wedel-Tuczyński also had to deal with the armed opposition of his Protestant relatives Wedel-Friedland (Wedelski), who were also based in the north of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Their headquarters had been Friedland since the beginning of the 14th century , but they were also wealthy in Tütz, just as, conversely, Wedel-Tütz owned property in Friedland and Neumark in Brandenburg . The property in Tütz was finally the subject of two confessional property rights division agreements. In 1599 the place was divided into a Catholic and a Protestant half, and in 1616 it was quartered into three Catholic parts (116 houses) and one Protestant (41 houses).

Wedel-Tuczyński based his recatholization efforts from 1602 to a large extent on Jesuits. In 1610 he erected a building next to the Tützer church that was later rededicated as a chapel, from where they carried out a lively missionary activity in the area. He also supported the first mission of the Poznan Jesuits to Krone with 300 guilders a year. After a building erected by the Jesuits in Krone / Wałcz burned down in 1619, he financed the establishment and operation of the Jesuit college there together with the voivode of Kalisch, Jan Gostomski. When he was struck by lightning in 1639, he attributed this misfortune to witches - “an error from which,” as Ludwik Bąk writes, “the Jesuits did not free him”. In the following year ten women were burned as witches in Tütz , four of whom professed Catholicism before their death.

From 1611 Wedel-Tuczyński acted as a judge in Wałcz. From 1615 he was castellan of Santok and meanwhile took part as senator in the meetings of the Sejm of 1618, 1619 and 1623. In the course of the deliberations in 1623 he advanced to castellan of Posen, an office that he held until his death. Also in 1623 he was the ambassador of the Polish king to the Regensburg Princely Congress of Emperor Ferdinand II. Afterwards he only took part in the Sejm of 1629. He was considered one of the most active senators of his generation. Between 1608 and 1631 he expanded the castle in Tütz with a south and west wing and had a third corner tower built. In 1635 he made a pilgrimage to Loreto.

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Ludwik Bąk: Ziemia Walecka. Piła 1999, p. 216
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6. ↑ Ludwik Bąk: Ziemia Walecka. Piła 1999, pp. 63, 86, 231 ff .; Grzegorz Jacek Brnahmowicz : Wedelscy vel Frylandzcy. Średniowieczni Wedlowie na Mirosławcu. In: Krzyżacy, szpitalnicy, kondotierzy. Studia z dziejów średniowiecza. No. 12, Malbork 2006, pp. 19-41
7. ↑ Grzegorz Jacek Brzustowicz: Czasy Wedlów. Historia Drawna i Tuczna w czasach Rodu von Wedel (do połowy XIX wieku). Choszczno 2003
8. ↑ Ludwig Bąk: Ziemia Walecka . Piła 1999, p. 226 .
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11. ↑ Ludwik Grzebień SJ and Jacek Wiesiołowski (ed.): Kronika Jezuitów poznańskich (Mlodsza). Volume I: 1570-1653. Poznań 2004, p. 430
12. ↑ Max Rohwerder (Ed.): Historia Residentiae Walcensis Societatis Jesu from Anno Domini 1618 avo. Cologne 1967, pp. 11 ff., 17 ff., 22, 28, 50, 58
13. ↑ Ludwik Bąk: Ziemia Walecka. Piła 1999, p. 224
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15. ^ Leszek Andrzej Wierzbicki: Senatorowie koronni na Sejmach Rzeczypospolitej w XVII wieku. Warszawa 2017, p. 161; Antoni Gąsiorowski (ed.): Urzednicy Wielkopolscy XII – XV wieku. Warszawa 1985, p. 234
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17. ^ Leszek Andrzej Wierzbicki: Senatorowie koronni na Sejmach Rzeczypospolitej w XVII wieku. Warszawa 2017, p. 161
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19. ↑ P. Czaplewski: Polacy na studyach w Ingolsztacie. Z rękopisów Uniwersytetu Monachijskiego. Poznań 1914, p. 104