Przhebendovsky, Jan Jerzy

It came from the middle Protestant gentry family of the Przhebendovsky coat of arms " Kuna " from Royal Prussia . The son of the judge of the Zemsky Lebork Petr Przhebendovsky (c. 1620 - 1700 ) and Katarzyna Krokowska. He studied at the Jesuit College in the Old Schools near Gdansk , where he converted to Catholicism . He spent his youth at the court of the Polish king Jan II Casimir Waza . He entered the military service, participated in the battles of Khotyn and Stavishchi , and rose to the rank of colonel . Oe traveled with a diplomatic mission to Saxony , Brandenburg and France. He took an active part in the political life of Royal Prussia , since 1668 he was repeatedly elected ambassador to the Sejm. In 1677 he received the elder mirakhovskoe from John III Sobieski . Since 1690 - one of the closest associates of Jan III Sobieski , about whom in 1693 he received the post of Chestnut Helminsky .

During the interregnum after the death of Jan Sobieski ( 1696 - 1697 ), Jan Jerzy Przhebendovsky was a consistent supporter of the royal prince Jakub Sobieski and the French prince Francois Louis de Conti . He later supported the candidacy of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong . He collaborated with the Saxon envoy, Colonel Jakub Henrik von Fleming , with whom he was closely associated. The role of Jan Jerzy Przhebendowski in the election of Augustus the Strong was enormous: he became the chief adviser and assistant to the new monarch. According to a significant part of his contemporaries, Jan Jerzy Przhebendovsky was uncompromising and very cynical in his actions. In 1697, at the electoral parliament, he supported the candidacy of Augustus the Strong for the Polish royal throne.

Augustus the Strong , having occupied the Polish throne, generously awarded Jan Jerzy Przhebendovsky. In 1697 he became governor of Malbork ; in 1703 he was appointed the subcarpony the great crown . In 1711, Jan Jerzy Przhebendovsky received the title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire. He was largely responsible for the king’s domestic policy. The author of monetary ( 1703 ) and treasury ( 1710 ) reforms.

In 1701 and 1704, he was an envoy in Berlin , advocated an alliance with the Prussian king Frederick I Hohenzollern , but the latter was not interested in an alliance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1706, after the defeat of Augustus Strong, Jan Jerzy Przhebendovsky did not recognize Stanislav Leshchinsky as the new king of the Commonwealth and was forced to leave for emigration. In 1709, after the defeat of the Swedes near Poltava, he returned to Poland with Augustus the Strong . He participated in the Warsaw Rada, where he called for tax reform. In 1713 he was included in the secret Saxon cabinet under Augustus the Strong . In 1727, Jan Jerzy Przhebendowski signed a trade agreement with the Holy Roman Emperor on free goods transit through Silesia to Ukraine.

He was the owner of a number of estates in East Prussia and on the territory of the Commonwealth. He was a member of the first Polish Masonic lodge "Red Brotherhood".

He left behind several illegitimate children who, with the support of the king, received the nobility.

He died on his estate in Przigodzice near Ostrow Wielkopolski . He was buried in a church with. Anthony of Padua on Senatorial Street in Warsaw .

He was married to Margarita Elizabeth von Fleming ( 1664 - 1728 ), daughter of the Brandenburg field marshal Heins Heinrich von Fleming ( 1632 - 1706 ) and cousin of the Cabinet Minister of Saxony Jacob Heinrich von Fleming .

• Historia Dyplomacji Polskiej, tom II 1572-1795 pod red. Zbigniewa Wójcika, PWN Warszawa 1982, s. 351-352.
• Listy Jana Jerzego Przebendowskiego podskarbiego wielkiego koronnego do Adama Mikołaja Sieniawskiego wojewody bełskiego i hetmana wielkiego koronnego z lat 1704-1725, oprac. Adam Perłakowski, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2007.