CHWALCZEWSKI - KRONIKA POLSKA ST. CHWALCZEWSKI [MIECHOWITA'S CRONIC OF 1554] published 1829.

CHWALCZEWSKI Stanislaw

KRONIKA POLSKA STANISŁAW CHWALCZEWSKI

Starosta Kobrynski, Heir of Raskovsky

written 1549

T. IX, part III

Warsaw, in Drukarnia A. Gałęzowski i comp. 1829 pp. XXIX, 232; format 11x18.5 cm

Offered volume contains the entire Chronicle of Chwalczewski.

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Stanislaw Chwalczewski (d. 1567 in Raszkow) - politician of pre-partition Poland, translator, historian. Brother of Jerzy and Piotr Chwalczewski. He was a native of Raszków in today's Ostrów district. From 1529 he served in the army of Emperor Charles V, later at the court of Queen Bona. From 1536 he was starosta of Krzemieniec, from 1545 he was starosta of Kobrin, from 1552 he was starosta of Pinsk, Klecki, Horodels. In 1553-1555 he reformed, on Bona's recommendation, her Polesie estates. Toward the end of his life he settled in his hometown of Raszków and there translated into Polish the Chronicle of Poland by Maciej Miechowita.

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Mogilnicki Witold Daniel, born 3.01.1898 in Bzowiec, died 1965, landowner, bibliophile, collector of exlibrises and works of art, last heir of Bzowiec estate in Podlasie.