GRZYBOWSKI Stanisław - Jan Zamoyski (from the series Biografie Sławnych Ludzi)

A wonderful biography of the chancellor, Hetman of the Great Crown and de facto viceroy at the side of Stanislaw Batory.

The legend of the Zamoyski Sariusz family was born before the birth of the family's most prominent representative. Jan Długosz recorded a macabre dialogue between Władysław Łokietek and Florian Sariusz, who was pierced by three Teutonic spears. "What a heavy ordeal this knight bears," the king is supposed to have said, seeing the intestines, held by the wounded man with the last of his strength, flowing out of his ripped abdomen. "It is a far worse ordeal to endure a bad neighbor than I have suffered," he said. - replied Florian reportedly. The king pledged his help, freed the knight from the evil neighbor, and added three spears to his coat of arms, Koźlaroga, depicting a goat in a red field, and gave him a new name: Jelita....

Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1994.
Series: Biographies of Famous People.
Format: 210 x 150 mm, 298 pages.
Hard laminated binding.

Piece in beautiful condition.