Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski

Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski, holding the hetman's staff in his right hand

Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski (German Nicolas Hieronimus Sieniawski * 1645 , † 15. December 1683 in Vienna ) was a Polish nobleman , officials in the civil service and Feldhetman the Polish crown from the noble Sieniawski .

Life

Mikołaj Hieronim came from the Polish aristocratic family of the Sieniawskis and was the son of Adam Hieronim Sieniawski († 1650) and Wiktoria Elżbieta Sieniawska († 1670), née Potocka .

As army commander he served under King John II Casimir and fought on the side of the king against rebellious Cossacks in Ukraine and against the Tatar peoples . He was also an opponent of the Lubomirski Confederation , which was proclaimed by Prince Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski . He participated in military operations in Podolia and Moldova from 1673 to 1674 during the Ottoman-Polish War of 1672 to 1676 , where one proceeded against the Turkish invasion. In 1682 he received the title of field hetman from the Polish crown and two years earlier he was appointed voivod of Volhynia . After King Jan III. Sobieski won the election of a king, he took his side and fought with him, among other things, in the Battle of Podhajce in 1667 against the Crimean Tatars and Doroshenko Cossacks and in the Battle of Chocim in 1673 against the Ottomans . Towards the end of his life, he finally died in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, during which he died in the camp from an epidemic of epidemic prevailing there.

Civil service

Sieniawski held various state offices in the Kingdom of Poland . He was the “Great Guardian of the Polish Crown” (Polish strażnik wielki koronny , Latin praefectus excubiarum seu vigiliarum ) from 1666, officer of the Polish armed forces with the rank of colonel from 1667, “ Great Banner Bearer of the Polish Crown” (Polish Chorąży wielki vexillifer , Latin regni ) from 1668, "Court Marshal of the Polish Crown" (Polish Marszałek nadworny koronny , Latin mareschalus curiae ) from 1674, Sejm - Marshal 1676, Voivode of Volhynia from 1680, field hetman of the Polish crown from 1682, as well as Starost von Lemberg , Radom , Rohatyn and Piaseczno .

Marriage and offspring

Mikołaj married Maria Cecilia Sieniawska, née Princess Radziwiłł , in 1662 , and had three children with her:

• Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski (1666–1726), Polish civil servant and general;
• Johanna Sieniawska (after 1662 – after 1712), married in 1695 to Stefan Potocki († 1726), Vojewode von Bels , Starost von Trembowla and Kaniów etc .;
• Teofila Sieniawska (1677–1754), married in 1698 to Aleksander Jan Jabłonowski (1670–1723), holder of various offices in the Kingdom of Poland, including Starost;

gallery

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  The coat of arms Sieniawski, crest Community Leliwa

literature

• Jan Wimmer: The relief of Vienna 1683 . Interpress, Warszawa 1983, ISBN 978-83-223-2037-2 .
• Grzegorz Rąkowski: Przewodnik krajoznawczo-historyczny po Ukrainie Zachodniej . Oficyna Wydawn, Pruszków 2005, ISBN 83-8918846-5 .
• Okolicznościowa poezja polityczna w Polsce
• Husaria