Sigismund Gyllenstierna
Sigismund Gyllenstierna (also known as Zygmunt Guldenstern or Sigismund Güldenstern * 1598 in Kalmar ; † 1666 in Danzig ) was a Polish magnate from Sweden , Danzig castellan , administrator and treasurer in Marienburg , Starost in Stuhm .
Life
Sigismund Gyllenstierna was born as the son of the Swedish admiral Johan Nilsson Gyllenstierna (1569-1617) and came from the Lundholm branch of the Danish-Swedish noble family Gyllenstierna . Already the father sided with Sigismund III at the beginning of the 17th century . Wasa in conflict with his uncle Karl IX. and emigrated to Poland with his entire family . As a result, the name was changed to Guldenstern.
Zygmunt attended the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń and enrolled in February 1615 with his brother Johannes Guldenstern to study at the University of Rostock . He later also attended the Universities of Strasbourg and Leiden . In the course of his training he learned several foreign languages, which he was fluent in. In the 1620s he was courtier to King Zygmunt III. and later took over the function of chamberlain.
During the coronation sejm of Władysław IV. Wasa in 1633 he received the Polish Indigenous . In 1635, King Guldenstern and Gerhard Dönhoff commissioned the reconstruction, administration and supervision of the Polish fleet.
A year later, in 1636, he received from Władysław IV. The order together with the voivode of Vilnius , Krzysztof Radziwiłł , and the Starost in Libiszów, Andrzej Rey (1584-1641), the funeral of Princess Anna Wasa , who came from Brodnica to the The Assumption Church in Toruń was reburied. In 1645, at the invitation of the Polish king, he took part in the ultimately unsuccessful Thorner religious talk.
During the Polish-Swedish war (1655-1660) Guldenstern turned down the offer of the Swedish king Karl X. Gustav to defer to the Swedish side. At the turn of the month from February to March 1656 he led the unsuccessful defense of Marienburg against Sweden. On October 18, 1656 he received the Danzig castellany from King John II Casimir and thus became the last Protestant Senator of the First Polish Republic .
After his death he was buried in St. Mary's Church in Gdansk , where he had set up a family chapel in 1651, in which his father and other Swedish emigrants were also buried.
Most of his property was inherited by his son Władysław Kazimierz Guldenstern († 1686), who converted to Calvinism after his father's death . In the 1670s, however, Władysław Kazimierz fell victim to anti-Calvinist trials carried out by the Catholic priest Żeromski. Żeromski strove to join the Reformed communities. Despite the support of the Prussian nobility, the process dragged on for a long time, so that this matter was only resolved after his death. Only Guldenstern's brother-in-law, the Catholic and Kulm castellan Władysław Łoś († 1694), reached a compromise with the priest.
marriage
Through his marriage to Anna Czemowna (1599–1673), the only daughter and heiress of the Kulm castellan Fabian Czema (1575–1636), he took over all his property in Prussia and the Stuhmer Starostei after his death. Although Guldenstern was a Lutheran, the children were brought up in a Calvinist manner by his wife, who remained a Calvinist.
literature
- Joachim Botsack: Speech at the funeral of Sigismundi Güldenstern, Freiherr auff Lundholm and Vogelwick. 1666
- Andra Upplagan: Gyllenstierna 6. Sigismund i Nordisk familjebok. (1909)
- Wojciech Łygaś: Gdańsk: szwedzkie karty historii. Gdańsk: Marpress, 2001, pp. 132 ff. ISBN 83-87291-75-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Johannes Guldenstern's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ See the entry of Sigismund Guldenstern's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyllenstierna, Sigismund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guldenstern, Zygmunt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish castellan from Gdansk |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1598 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Squid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1666 |
| Place of death | Danzig |