Mikołaj Potocki

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Mikołaj Potocki

Mikołaj Potocki (* around 1595; † November 20, 1651 ) was a member of the Polish aristocracy ( Szlachta ), magnate , field hetman from 1637 to 1646 and from 1646 until his death grand hetman of the Polish crown .

Mikołaj Potocki, who came from the Polish magnate family Potocki, was known for his alcohol consumption as well as his brutal suppression of the Ukrainian farmers and the Cossack uprisings, which earned him the nickname "Bärentatze" (Polish: "Niedźwiedzia Łapa").

Mikołaj Potocki was married to Sophia Firlej for the first time and to Elizabeth Kazanovskytė for the second time.

By winning a battle on December 16, 1637, he suppressed a Cossack uprising and at the beginning of the Khmelnytskyi uprising , he commanded the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Union against the allied troops of the Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj and the Crimean Tatars under Tuhaj Bej . Only a few days after his son Stefan Potocki was killed after the battle of Shovti Vody , he was taken prisoner by the Tatars on May 26, 1648 after the battle of Korsun . After he was released from captivity in 1650 for a ransom, he was still involved in June 1651 in the Battle of Berestetschko , which was victorious for the Poles . He died on November 20, 1651.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mikołaj Potocki (1593-1651) - the drunken hetman; on the website of the Museum of the Castle of King Jan III. in Wilanow , accessed March 8, 2015
  2. ^ Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Countries, Volume IX, Page 405 , accessed March 8, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Russia, Poland and the Cossacks (1619-1642) Part V , accessed on March 8, 2015
  4. ↑ Genealogy Firlej ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 8, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mariusz.eu.pn
personal data
SURNAME Potocki, Mikołaj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish magnate and grand hetman of the Polish crown
DATE OF BIRTH around 1595
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1651