Piotr Kmita Sobieński

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The noble coat of arms of Count Kmita Sobieński, Szreniawa community of crests

Count Piotr Kmita Sobieński (* 1477 ; † 1553 ) from the noble family of those von Kmita was a Polish nobleman and statesman .

Life

Piotr belonged to the Szreniawa coat of arms community and held various offices in the Kingdom of Poland , including the Grand Marshal of the Polish Crown, Voivode and Castellan .

He spent his youth at the court of the Roman-German Emperor Maximilian I , in whose military campaigns he took part. After his return home, he fought against the Crimean Tatars in 1512, the Russians in the Battle of Orscha in 1514 and the Teutonic Order in the Equestrian War in 1520. In 1522 he was a member of the Polish delegation for the Roman-German Reichstag in Nuremberg , where he with the most influential people of the Empire came into contact, and as a result the Emperor raised him Charles V in the imperial counts in 1523. He was one of political allies of Queen Bona , and supported their plan after the battle of Mohács , 1526, in the Kingdom of Hungary of to help the anti-Habsburg opposition under Johann Zápolya to power. With the support of the Queen , he was appointed castellan of Sandomir in 1532 , which was followed a year later, in 1533, by the post of castellan of Krakow , and finally the post of voivod of the Sandomir voivodship, which he took against the Krakow voivodship in 1536 exchanged. Although he stood on the side of the queen in domestic politics, he also represented the interests of the middle nobility of the Szlachta.

Piotr was a patron of culture and an opponent of the Reformation . His court in Nowy Wiśnicz was one of the main centers of the Polish Renaissance and aroused the admiration of many scholars of his time. Erasmus of Rotterdam dedicated his works to him.

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  • Śląski kwartalnik historyczny Sobótka - page 532
  • Biblioteka naukowego Zakładu imienia Ossolińskich - page 18
  • Weidmann, 1680–1980: 300 years from the history of one of the oldest publishers in the world - Page 30
  • Polityka Jagiellonów - page 360
personal data
SURNAME Kmita Sobieński, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish nobleman and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1477
DATE OF DEATH 1553