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Jan Tarnowski - LoveToKnow 1911 (473 words) |
 | As early as 1509 Tarnowski brilliantly distinguished himself in Moldavia, and took a leading part in the great victories of Wisniowiec (1512) and Orsza (1514), where he commanded the flower of the Polish chivalry. |
| On the death of Nicholas Firlej in 1526 Tarnowski became grand hetman of the crown, or Polish commander-in-chief, and in that capacity won his greatest victory at Obertyn (22nd August 1531) over the Moldavians, Turks and Tatars, for which he received a handsome subsidy and an ovation similar to that of an ancient Roman triumphator. |
| Nevertheless Tarnowski was emphatically an aristocrat and an oligarch, proud of his ancient lineage and intensely opposed to the democratic tendencies of the szlachta. |
| List of szlachta - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (505 words) |
| Jan Stanisław Sapieha, 1589-1635, Chancellor of Lithuania from 1621-1635, childless |
| Jan Kazimierz Umiastowski, 16th century - 1659, sejm marshal |
| Jan Fryderyk Sapieha, 1680–1751, Grand Recorder of Lithuania between 1706 and 1709, since 1716 the castellan of Troki and after 1735 the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania |
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