Jan Zamoyski
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Hetman Jan Zamoyski |
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Anna Ossolińska Krystyna Radziwiłł Gryzelda Batory Barbara Tarnowska |
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Issue
with Barbara Tarnowska
Tomasz Zamoyski |
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| Noble family | Zamoyski |
| Father | Stanisław Zamoyski |
| Mother | Anna Herburt |
| Born |
19 March 1542 Skokówka, Kingdom of Poland |
| Died | 3 June 1605 (aged 63) Zamość, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Religion |
Calvinist Roman Catholic (Converted) |
Jan Zamoyski or Zamojski (Latin: Ioannes de Zamość; 1542–1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, and the 1st ordynat of Zamość. Royal Secretary from 1566, Deputy Kanclerz (Chancellor) of the Crown from 1576, Lord Grand-Chancellor of the Crown from 1578, and Grand Hetman of the Crown from 1581. General Starost of Kraków from 1580 to 1585, Starost of Bełz, Międzyrzecz, Krzeszów, Knyszyn and Tartu. Important advisor to Kings Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory, he was one of the major opponents of Bathory's successor, Sigismund III Vasa, and one of the most skilled diplomats, politicians and statesmen of his time, standing as a major figure in the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth throughout his life.
Jan Zamoyski was born on 19 March 1542 to Stanisław Zamoyski and Anna Herburt in Skokówka. He started his education in a school in Krasnystaw but when he was thirteen years old he was sent to study abroad; from 1555 to 1559 he was a paige at the royal court in Paris. Already at this young age he attended lectures at the Sorbonne University and Collège de France. In 1559 he briefly visited Poland, then attended the University of Strasbourg; after a few months there he moved to University of Padua, where from 1561 he studied law and received a doctorate in 1564. During his years abroad he converted from Calvinism to Roman Catholicism.
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