Andrzej Karol Grudzinsky ( 1611 - 1678 ) - Polish military and statesman, governor of Kalisz (1653–1661) and Poznan (1661–1678), headman of Naklovsky , Valchsky , Rogoznovsky , Srodsky and Oseksky. The owner of the estate Zlotow , royal colonel and captain of the guard.
| Andrzej Karol Grudzinsky | |||||||
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| polish Andrzej Karol Grudziński | |||||||
 Coat of arms of Grimal | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Jan Peter Opalinsky | ||||||
| Successor | Jan Opalinsky | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Yan Leshchinsky | ||||||
| Successor | Krzysztof Gzhimultovsky | ||||||
| Birth | 1611 | ||||||
| Death | 1678 | ||||||
| Kind | Grudzinskie | ||||||
| Father | Sigmund Grudzinsky | ||||||
| Mother | Anna Opalinskaya | ||||||
| Spouse | Marianna Sventsitskaya | ||||||
| Children | Sigmund | ||||||
Biography
Representative of the Polish gentry clan of the Grudzinski coat of arms Grzhimal . The son of the governor of Kalisha Sigmund of Grudzinsky (c. 1538-1653) and Anna Opalinsky.
At the beginning of the Swedish flood , on July 25, 1655 , Andrzej Karol Grudzinsky, together with the Poznan governor Krishtof Opalinsky and the crown sub-chancellor Jerome Radzievsky, refused to serve the Polish king Jan Casimir Wase and surrendered together with the Great Polish militia Warden Karst Xavarl von Karl Gustav Ward ruler of the Commonwealth. Despite his initial betrayal, he soon sided with the Polish crown and took part in the fight against the Swedish occupiers. In response, the Swedes burned the castles of Zlotow and Drachim, which belonged to him ( 1657 ).
In 1668, after the abdication of John II Casimir from the Polish royal throne, Andrzej Grudzinsky supported the candidacy of Elector Philip Wilhelm of Palatinate . In 1669 he was elected from the Poznan Voivodeship to the Electoral Diet, where he supported the candidacy of Prince Mikhail Koribut Wisniewiecki to the Polish throne.
After the end of the Northern War, Andrzej Grudzinsky built many churches, in particular, the Farny Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zlotow (1661–1664). In the crypt of this church were buried his parents, Andrzej himself and his son Sigmund, who died in childhood as a result of an infectious disease.
Andrzej Grudzinsky died in 1678 and was buried in the church of St. Vitus in Rogozno .
He was married to Marianne Sventsitskaya, a relative of the bishop of Helm Stanislav Jacek Sventsitsky.
The character of the voivode Andrzej Grudzinsky is mentioned in the novel “Flood” by Henryk Sienkiewicz during the surrender of the Greater Poland militia near Uysce .
Sources
- Antoni Gąsiorowski, Jerzy Topolski [red.]: Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny. Warszawa-Poznań: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981, s. 234. ISBN 83-01-02722-3 .