Ostroróg (noble family)

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The Nałęcz coat of arms of the Ostroróg

Ostroróg is a Polish noble family of the coat of arms Community Nałęcz . It was one of the most influential families in Greater Poland . They provided voivodes , castellans and even occupied the office of the Wielkopolska general starosts and, in the absence of the king, partially took over the reign of the Kingdom of Poland.

origin

City coat of arms of Ostroróg
Count's coat of arms of the Ostroróg

The family name is derived from the village of the same name Ostroróg , which is about 40 km northwest of Poznan . The owners there were from the beginning aristocratic families who belonged to the Nałęcz coat of arms community. The city ​​coat of arms of Ostroróg still shows a band (Nałęcz). The earliest name bearer was Dziersław Grochoła, castellan of Santok from 1383 to 1387 , who now called himself Grochoła z Ostroroga after his possessions. Among these early Ostrorógs, Sędziwój (Sandiwog) Ostroróg (1375–1441) in particular drew attention to himself as a military leader against the Teutonic Order and during incursions into the Neumark . However, he also tried to settle in the vicinity of Poznan. On July 1, 1419, after approval by King Władysław Jagiełło, he managed to unite the two villages Więcewojszyno and Wojszyno and to suspend the so-called Magdeburg law . This newly created city was called Lwów and it was not until the 16th century that it became Lwówek (to distinguish it from the much larger Lwów in Galicia). Sezivoj Ostrorog was raised to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Maximilian I at the Augsburg Council in 1518.

meaning

Mikolaj von Ostroróg, royal cupbearer

The Ostrorógs gained public importance in the 15th and 16th centuries through their position on church issues. In addition, Jan Ostroróg , castellan of Poznan and voivode of Wielkopolska, was the first political writer in Poland . His grandsons Jakub and Stanisław were leaders of the Reformation in Greater Poland in the 16th century .

In Poland itself, apart from a few princes from Lithuania, there were no titled families at that time, and the use of such foreign titles was also not permitted there. After the division of Poland, the family then received verifiable title confirmation from the occupying powers. On March 17, 1783 with Hoch- u. Well-born as well as the legitimation at the Galician Estates College as Count on September 9, 1795 for Isidore and July 8, 1805 for Nicolaus. The Russian count recognition took place on June 28, 1844 for Rosalie Ostroróg, b. Głogowska and her son Leopold Ladislaus. The Ostroróg family died out in the male line with Jan Graf v. Ostroróg on December 19, 1975, his only daughter, Anna Maria Christina, is third married to Count Antoine de Chastel de la Howarderie.

Important representatives of the noble family

Secondary lines

Sigismund Adalbert von Gorzeński, Königl. Chamberlain at Śmiełów Castle near Żerków , was able to use documents to prove the connection between his sex and the main tribe of Ostroróg. Together with his brothers, he received approval from the Prussian AKO on November 2, 1870 to take up and use the original name of his family Ostroróg.
In 1449 Dobrogost I. Ostroróg (* ~ 1410, † 1478) received the aforementioned Lwów from his father Sędiwój and was henceforth called Ostroróg-Lwowski. This branch provided with Marcin II. Ostroróg-Lwowski (* ~ 1542, † 1590) the largest landowner in Greater Poland during the second half of the 16th century. Furthermore, since 1581 he was castellan of Kamien, confidante of King Siegfried, who married Princess Bona Sforza in Italy in the name of the king and led to King Siegfried (the elder) in a one-off wedding procession to Poland.

The first branch of the Ostroróg-Lwowski family with Jerzy Ostrorog-Lwowski, Starost von Miedzyrzew, already died in 1623.

The second branch began with his younger brother Stanislaus Ostrorog, Starost von Ostrzeszow, in 1548; the third line began with the younger brother, Piotr Ostrorog-Lwowski, who took her name after his marriage to Princess Czarnkowska.

The second line Ostrorog-Lwowski still exists today in Poland, Germany, the United States, Portugal and Spain. Prince Edgar Lwowski (Russian line) was the first Prime Minister of Russia after the assassination of the Tsar. He was incarcerated by the Bolsheviks six months later and fled to Paris in 1919 as Count Ostrorog, where he died in 1925.

See family table Ostrorog-Lwowski (in progress).

The third line Piotr has its own family tree.

literature

  • Włodzimierz Dworzaczek : Teki Dworzaczka. Materialy historyczno - genealogiczne do dziejow szlachty wielko-polskiej XV - XX w., . Kornik 1997.
  • Antoni Gąsiorowski: Wielkopolscy Ostrorogowie . Ostroróg 1998.
  • Antoni Smigielski: Lwówek . Poznan 1994.
  • Adolf Warschauer : History of the Province of Poznan . Poznan 1914.
  • Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dt. Herold, magazine for coat of arms, seal and family history , vol. 18 (1887), p. 23.