Prokop Pieniażek from Krużlowa coat of arms Odrowąż - Jerozolimski Knight
He enrolled in the pages of history as a brave soldier serving in 1573 in the Mediterranean in the Spanish fleet, fighting against the Turks (it is possible that under the famous leader and Admiral of Spanish Juan D'austria). In this little -known period of life, in 1575, he acts as a knight of the Jerusalem Order of St. Maurycy (recommended, among others, by Cardinal Stanisław Hozjusz), founded three years earlier by the Sabau prince Emanuel Filibert.
The assumption that Prokop Pieniążek took part in 1571 in the famous maritime battle at Lepanto at the west coasts of Greece, which stopped the expansion of the Osman in the Mediterranean, cannot be confirmed. Franciszek Sikora, the author of the biography of the figure of interest to us, published in the Polish biographical dictionary, only mentions that Witeź Krużlowski took part in the fighting with the Turks in Africa for Tunis and Algier. When exactly and in what role - it is not known. Perhaps, however, - as the anonymous author of the article posted in 1948 in the "Illustrated Polish Courier" - against the illusion of Alem, the famous Muslim cory, commander of the left wing of the Ottoman Fleet under Lepanto, who little hair did not change the results of this battle in favor of the Osman.
In the times of King Stefan Batory, Prokop Pieniazek participated in the fight against the rebellious Gdańsk. Then, as a captain, he took part in the victorious war of the Commonwealth with Russia (participant in the Połock campaign in 1579, Wielkolucka in 1580 and Połocka in 1581). In 1582 he stayed with his Rota in Podolia for the defense of the southern border against the Tatars. After the death of Stefan Batory (1586), he belonged to the supporters of Zygmunt Vasa's candidacy for the Polish throne. In 1588 he fought at Jan Zamoyski near Byczyna against the army of the Polish Archduke Maksymilian Habsburg. As we read in PSB: "[...] incorporated into the battle in its last phase, he participated together with the army of the 2nd left wing line in hitting H. [Walenty] Prepostvare's heavy Hungarian ride, forcing Hungarians to retreat. In the same year, he received from Zygmunt III vase confirmation of lifetime granting on Wenden and Rumbborg [in Inflants]. "
The assumption that Prokop Pieniążek took part in 1571 in the famous maritime battle at Lepanto at the west coasts of Greece, which stopped the expansion of the Osman in the Mediterranean, cannot be confirmed. Franciszek Sikora, the author of the biography of the figure of interest to us, published in the Polish biographical dictionary, only mentions that Witeź Krużlowski took part in the fighting with the Turks in Africa for Tunis and Algier. When exactly and in what role - it is not known. Perhaps, however, - as the anonymous author of the article posted in 1948 in the "Illustrated Polish Courier" - against the illusion of Alem, the famous Muslim cory, commander of the left wing of the Ottoman Fleet under Lepanto, who little hair did not change the results of this battle in favor of the Osman.
In the times of King Stefan Batory, Prokop Pieniazek participated in the fight against the rebellious Gdańsk. Then, as a captain, he took part in the victorious war of the Commonwealth with Russia (participant in the Połock campaign in 1579, Wielkolucka in 1580 and Połocka in 1581). In 1582 he stayed with his Rota in Podolia for the defense of the southern border against the Tatars. After the death of Stefan Batory (1586), he belonged to the supporters of Zygmunt Vasa's candidacy for the Polish throne. In 1588 he fought at Jan Zamoyski near Byczyna against the army of the Polish Archduke Maksymilian Habsburg. As we read in PSB: "[...] incorporated into the battle in its last phase, he participated together with the army of the 2nd left wing line in hitting H. [Walenty] Prepostvare's heavy Hungarian ride, forcing Hungarians to retreat. In the same year, he received from Zygmunt III vase confirmation of lifetime granting on Wenden and Rumbborg [in Inflants]. "
Referring to the Sądecki thread of the biography of Prokop Pieniazek, the above-mentioned Franciszek Sikora stated that in the years 1579-1580 he was the administrator of the Starosądecki Clares and that under the Apostolic Brewegian of May 7, 1580, he was awarded the monastery farm in Łąck. Feliks Kiric (History of Stary Sącz, Kraków 1979) put this issue a bit differently, writing that the representative of the Odrowąż Krużlowski Odrowążów gave up the position of the Łącki key in 1581 (during the period of turbulent disputes over the monastery intrarata), adding in a different place (Łącko and Łącka commune, Kraków 2012) that: "As a tenant of Łącka with the adjacent (1581-1583), he was enough for permission to buy Old Sącz monastery goods, but the papal Breve in this respect turned out to be a counterfeit, which the apostolic nuncio recognized and did not allow to the announced transaction. " Further facts from the biography of Prokop Pieniazek, who had the earthly goods, among others In the Szczyrzycki poviat, they no longer contain doubtful elements. According to PSB: "In 1586, he married the daughter of Tenutarius [tenant] Krzepicki Jan from Wrzosowice Anna [...]. He died on July 4, 1589 in Sandomierz, he was buried in the church of St. Trinity in Krakow. The epitaph was placed in the church of St. Michał in Vilnius. "
Author: Leszek Migrała
Author: Leszek Migrała
