Stefan Konstantin Korycinsky ( Polish: Stefan Koryciński ; circa 1617 , Korytna (now the district of Uherske Hradiste , Zlín region of the Czech Republic ) - July 4, 1658 , Peskova Skala Castle near Krakow ) - statesman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , stolnik Krakowski (from 1643 ), sub-chancellor of the Crown The Kingdom of Poland and the Chancellor the Great Crown (since 1652, the Auschwitz chestnut , the headman of Wolbroms , Ojtsovsky , Warsaw , Rabshtynsky , Kovalsky.
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| polish Stefan koryciński | |||||||
 Coat of arms of Korytsinsky Ax | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Andrzej Leshchinsky | ||||||
| Successor | Nikolai Prazhmovsky | ||||||
| Birth | c. 1617 Korytna (now the district of Uherske Hradiste , Zlín Region of the Czech Republic ) | ||||||
| Death | July 4, 1658 Peskova Skala | ||||||
| Kind | Korytsinsky | ||||||
| Father | Nikolai Korytsinsky | ||||||
| Mother | Barbara Pukarzhevskaya | ||||||
| Spouse | Anna Petronela Gembitskaya | ||||||
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Biography
Representative of the gentry clan coat of arms Ax .
Received an excellent education. From 1628 he studied at the Cracow Academy . Then, around 1633, he continued his studies at universities in Leuven and Amsterdam .
At the beginning of 1639, he favorably married Anna-Petronela Gembitskaya, daughter of the governor of Lenchitsky Stefan Gembitsky (d. 1653) and Elzbieta Grudzinski, niece of the Cracow bishop Peter Gembitsky , who since then became his patron.
In 1641, 1645, 1647, 1648, 1649 and 1652 he was elected ambassador ( deputy ) of the Sejm from the Cracow Voivodeship.
Member of the wars with Bogdan Khmelnitsky . At the head of his own unit exposed by him, he fought in the battle of Berestechko .
February 4, 1652 was appointed crown sub-chancellor. Soon he became the great crown chancellor and in this rank took the oath in the camp near Zhvanets to the Poles who had sided with the Poles, the former allies of Khmelnitsky - the Crimean Tatar troops of Islyam III Geray .
During the Swedish flood, with a group of senators and magnates, he accompanied King Jan II Casimir Waz to exile in Silesia .
Later in 1656 he led the royal mint in Lviv . In the same year, he was one of the members of the deputation who accepted the surrender of the Swedes who settled in Warsaw they had captured.
As a politician, he was an active opponent of the conclusion of an alliance between Poland and the Russian Tsar, and even tried to disrupt the signing of the Vilnius Armistice in 1656.
He died at the Peskov Castle Skala near Krakow in 1658.
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- Stefan Koryciński (Polish)