Rafail Leshchinsky (c. 1526 - 1592 ) - statesman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , royal nobleman ( 1541 ), governor of Brest-Kuyavsky ( 1545 - 1550 ), Sremsky chestnut (from 1580 ), head of the Radzievsky , marshal of the Sejm ( 1552 , 1562 - 1563) ), one of the leaders of the Protestant movement in Poland.
| Rafail Leshchinsky | |||||||
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| polish Rafał Leszczyński | |||||||
 Coat of arms of Venyava | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Jan Janusz Kosceletsky | ||||||
| Successor | Jan Janusz Kosceletsky | ||||||
| Birth | 1526 | ||||||
| Death | 1592 | ||||||
| Kind | Leschinsky | ||||||
| Father | Yan Leshchinsky | ||||||
| Mother | Maria de marcelanges | ||||||
| Spouse | 1) Barbara Volskaya 2) Anna Korzhbok Zavadskaya | ||||||
| Children | from first marriage: Jan and Andrzej from a second marriage: Wenceslas , Katarina, Marianna, Barbara and Anna | ||||||
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Biography
The representative of the noble Polish magnate clan Leshchinsky coat of arms of Weniaw . The only son of the chestnut of Brest-Kuyavian Ian Leshchinsky (d. 1535 ) and Maria de Marcelanges, the widow of Yaroslav Sokolovsky.
In his youth he studied in Zlotiria under the guidance of Valentin Trotsendorf and Krishtof Hegendorfina. In 1541, a nobleman surrounded by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old . In 1545 - 1550, the governor of Brest-Kuyavsky . In 1567 he was elected shafar , that is, the head of the tax collectors ("fighters") of the Kalisz Voivodeship. In the years 1578 - 1580 - the safari of Great Poland. In 1580 he became a Sremsky coughman and abandoned the Radzievsky elder in favor of his eldest son, Jan.
Rafail Leshchinsky began his political activity in 1548 , when he opposed the marriage of the Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus with Barbara Radziwill . In 1549 he entered the community of Czech Protestant brothers, began to support them and take part in their gatherings.
After the resignation of the governor of Brest-Kuyavsky ( 1550 ), Rafail Leshchinsky was elected ambassador to the Sejm in 1552 . He was elected ambassador to the Sejm from Greater Poland in 1562 - 1563 and 1563 - 1564 , from the Kalisz voivodship in 1566 , from the Poznan voivodship in 1569 . In 1552 and 1562 - 1563 he was twice elected Marshal of the Sejm. In 1570, Rafail Leshchinsky traveled to Moscow as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Embassy. In 1580 he was appointed Sremsky cough , and in 1581 he built a Protestant cathedral in Golukhov.
He defended the gentry from the tycoons of wealthy owners. He was one of the famous Czech brothers in Greater Poland , during the Lublin Diet ( 1569 ) he advocated the inclusion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into the Kingdom of Poland.
Family
Rafail Leshchinsky was twice married. In 1543/1544, he married Barbara Volskaya with his first marriage, from whom he had children:
- Yan Leshchinsky (d. 1588/1589), the head of the Radzievsky
- Andrzej Leshchinsky (c. 1559-1606), governor of Brest-Kuyavsky
Until 1574, he remarried to Anna Korzhbok Zavadskaya, daughter of Count Henryk Korzhbok. Children:
- Vaclav Leshchinsky (1576-1628), Kalish kashtel , Chancellor the Great
- Katarina Leshchinsky (d. After 1582), 1st husband Vaclav Ostorog (d. 1574), 2nd husband captain of the Queen’s court Jan Konetsky
- Marianna Leshchinsky (1574–1642), the first husband from 1592, the Radom coughman Andrzej Firlei (d. 1609), the second husband from 1611, Prince Janusz Zaslavsky (1560–1629)
- Barbara Leshchinsky, wife of the subcommittee of Poznan Vladislav Pshemsky
- Anna Leshchinsky, wife of Jerzy Latalski