Piotr Kmita Sobieński

Count Piotr Kmita Sobieński (* 1477, † 1553) from the noble dynasty of Kmita was a Polish nobleman and statesman.

Life

Piotr belonged to the crest Community Szreniawa and has held various positions in the Kingdom of Poland, he was, among others, Grand Marshal of the Polish crown, voivode and castellan.

He spent his youth at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, to whose army trains he participated. After his return home, he fought against the Crimean Tatars in 1512, the Russians in the Battle of Orsha in 1514 and the Teutonic Order in the rider war 1520. In 1522 he was a member of the Polish delegation to the Roman-German Reichstag in Nuremberg, where he came up with the most influential personalities of the empire in contact, and as a result made ​​him Emperor Charles V in the title of Count 1523. He was a political ally of Queen Bona, and supported their plan after the Battle of Mohács in 1526, in the Kingdom of Hungary, the anti-Habsburg opposition under John Zápolya to help to power. He was appointed in 1532 by the support of the Queen in the office of castellan of Sandomir, which a year later, in 1533, was followed by the office of castellan of Krakow, finally was added the office of voivode of Sandomierz Province, which he in 1536 against the Province Krakow eintauschte. Although he stood in the domestic politics on the side of the queen, he represented the interests of the Middle nobility of the szlachta.

Piotr was a patron of culture and an opponent of the Reformation. His farm in Nowy Wiśnicz was one of the main centers of the Polish Renaissance and awakened many scholars of his time admiration, as Erasmus of Rotterdam dedicated to him his works.

Swell

• Slaski kwartalnik Historyczny Sobotka - Page 532
• Biblioteka naukowego základů imienia Ossolinskich - Page 18
• Weidmann, 1680-1980: 300 years of the history of one of the oldest publishers in the world page 30
• Polityka Jagiellonów - Page 360

• Prince
• Pole
• Born in 1477
• Died in 1553
• Man