Jan Firlej
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Noble Family Szlachta The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...	Firlej Firlej family Firlej is the surname of a Polish szlachta family.-History:According to Kasper Niesiecki, Ostafi of Lewart coat of arms came from Franconia, Germany, to Poland, in 1317, to serve Polish king Władysław Łokietek. He was nicknamed Firlej, and the name became his family name...
Coat of Arms Polish heraldry Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe...	Lewart Lewart coat of arms Lewart is a Polish Coat of Arms. It was borne by several noble families of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Families that descend from the original medieval clan that assumed this c-of-a as well as those legally adopted into the clan...
Parents	Piotr Firlej Piotr Firlej Piotr Firlej was a Polish nobleman .Piotr became voivode of Lublin Voivodship in 1537 and voivode of Ruthenian Voivodship in 1545. In 1514 he participated in the Battle of Orsza and was a trusted adviser of Queen Bona and King Zygmunt II August. He founded the cities of Janowiec and Lubartów and... Katarzyna Teczynska
Consorts	Zofia Boner (Bonarowa) Zofia Dzik (Doliwa) Barbara Mniszech
Children	with Zofia Boner Mikolaj Firlej Andrzej Firlej Jan Firlej Piotr Firlej with Zofia Dzik Anna Firlej Henryk Firlej Henryk Firlej Henryk Firlej was a Polish szlachcic, bishop of Łuck , Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1624; Deputy Chancellor of the Crown .-External links:*...
Date of Birth	abt. 1521
Place of Birth	Dąbrowica, Lublin County Dabrowica, Lublin County Dąbrowica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jastków, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south of Jastków and west of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a population of 1,095....
Date of Death	25 April 1574
Place of Death	Kock Kock Kock is a town in eastern Poland, about 45 km north of Lublin and 120 km south-east of Warsaw. It lies in Lublin Voivodeship, in Lubartów County. It is the capital of the Kock Commune.As of 2004, its population numbered 3,509.-History:...

Jan Firlej (c. 1521, Dąbrowica, Lublin County

Dabrowica, Lublin County

Dąbrowica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jastków, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south of Jastków and west of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a population of 1,095....

 – 1574, Kock

Kock

Kock is a town in eastern Poland, about 45 km north of Lublin and 120 km south-east of Warsaw. It lies in Lublin Voivodeship, in Lubartów County. It is the capital of the Kock Commune.As of 2004, its population numbered 3,509.-History:...

) was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 nobleman (szlachcic), and Calvinist activist.

Jan became Great Marshal

Marszalek

Marszałek was one of the highest officials in the Polish royal court since the 13th century and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since the 15th century...

 of the Crown in 1563 and starost of Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 in 1572. He agreed with the candidature of Henryk Walezy for the Polish throne only on the condition that Henryk signing the Henrican articles. Voivode of Belz

Belz

Belz , a small city in the Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, is located between the Solokiya river and the Rzeczyca stream....

, Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

 and Kraków.

Around 1555 he founded a Calvinist church in Kock

Kock

Kock is a town in eastern Poland, about 45 km north of Lublin and 120 km south-east of Warsaw. It lies in Lublin Voivodeship, in Lubartów County. It is the capital of the Kock Commune.As of 2004, its population numbered 3,509.-History:...

, and build a family residence there.