Koscletsky, Jan (d. 1600)

Representative of the Polish noble family of the Kosczeletsk coat of arms “ Little Fire ”. The second son of the governor of Sieradz , the headman of Greater Poland and the headman of Bydgoszcz Jan Janusz Kosczeletsky ( 1524 - 1565 ) and Gertrude Danaborska.

Together with his older brother Stanislav Jan, in 1556 he studied at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder . In the summer of 1557 he participated in the Obolsk military campaign against the Livonian Order . Then he continued his studies at the universities of Wittenberg ( 1559 ), Leipzig ( 1560 ) and Bologna ( 1564 ). His presence and studies at Protestant universities caused concern in Catholic circles. He was even suspected of moving to Lutheranism.

After the death of his uncle, the governor of Poznan, Andrzej Koscieletski , Janusz was appointed on April 15, 1565 to the post of elder bydgoszcz . In 1569 he was elected ambassador from the Poznan Voivodeship to the Lublin Diet . In 1572, Jan Kosczeletsky was promoted to Behovsky's chestnut. After the death of the Polish king Sigismund Augustus, he was a supporter of the candidacy of Heinrich Anjou and signed an act of his election in 1573 .

On August 26, 1584, Janusz Kosczeletsky received the post of Chestnut Mendzyzhechi . After the election of Sigismund III Waza to the Polish throne, a seymic in Srode-Wielkopolska ordered him to march with the military detachment on the Polish-Austrian border in order to protect the frontiers from attacks by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg . He collected the Commonwealth destruction of the Poznan Voivodeship near Yutrosin ( October 1587 ), from where, together with the Kalisha governor, he arrived at Piotrków to meet with Sigismund III Waza .

In 1586, Jan Kosczeletsky was elected ambassador to the pacification diet. In August 1590, he took part in the congress of a part of the rebelled Great Polish gentry in Kolo , from where he was sent with the embassy to the king. At an extraordinary parliament on October 1, 1594, he was elected to the delegation, which brought the collected money to the king for defense against Tatar raids. In 1596, at the Sejm in Warsaw, he was appointed deputy from the Senate for tax councils.

Jan Kosczeletsky was at the royal court, accompanied Sigismund Augustus during his trip to Italy and Stefan Batory during the campaign against the rebel Gdansk . From January to March 1577, in the Bydgoszcz Castle, Jan Koscielcki was visited by the Polish king Stefan Batory , who elected Bydgoszcz as his headquarters during the war with Gdansk .

On April 2, 1600, Jan Kosczeletsky died in Bydgoszcz Castle . He was buried in the Bernardine church in Bydgoszcz .

In 1567 he married Dorota Splavskaya (d. 1605/1609), from a marriage with whom he had two sons and three daughters:

• Janusz Kosczeletsky (d. 1600/1608 ), childless
• Wojciech Kosczeletsky (d. 1639 )
• Gertrude Kosczeletskaya, wife of Andrzej Rozdrazhevsky
• Katarzyna Koscieletskaya, wife of Marcin Vyrzhitsky
• Anna Kostseletskaya, 1st husband Jan Sadovsky, 2nd husband Maciej Kurovsky

• Błażejewski Stanisław, Kutta Janusz, Romaniuk Marek: Bydgoski Słownik Biograficzny. Tom vi. Bydgoszcz 2000. ISBN 83-85327-58-4 , s. 49-57

• KOŚCIELECCY , Dworzaczek Włodzimierz, Genealogia, Warszawa 1959