Podział dawnego latyfundium kasztelana krakowskiego Spytka Wawrzyńca Jordana (1518-1568) w 1597 roku. Studium z dziejów młodszej gałęzi rodziny Jordanów herbu Trąb
The division of the former latifundium of the castellan of Kraków Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan (1518-1568) in 1597. A study from the history of the younger branch of the Jordan family, Trąby coat of arms

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of the Jordan family Trąby coat of arms from the 14th to the 16th century. Particular attention was paid to the achievements of the castellan of Wojnicz Mikołaj (1467–1521) and his son, the castellan of Kraków Spytek Wawrzyniec (1518–1568). Mikołaj was a close associate of kings Alexander and Sigismund I. Under their reign, he made a great career, becoming one of the magnates of Małopolska. Spytek Wawrzyniec, a trusted advisor to Sigismond August, who became the first secular senator – the castellan of Kraków, achieved even more. He was one of the most important people in the state of the last Jagiellonian in the fifties and the sixties of the 16th century. Both Jordans, father and son, possessed numerous royal lands. However, they also had extensive private landed estates. The latifundium of Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan included 4 towns and over 85 villages and was comparable to the property of the old magnates families – Tarnowski and Tęczyński. The castellan of Kraków, however, did not leave a male heir, and his property was divided in 1597 between his three living daughters and the heirs of two other, then deceased daughters. The study presents the participants and the conditions of the division made in 1597. The further fate of each of the heirs and the history of the estates taken by them until the mid-17th century was discussed. With a death of Anna Sieniawska, the widow of Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan, the Jordan family disappeared from the ranks of Małopolska magnates. On the other hand, the landed estates accumulated by its most outstanding representative, castellan of Kraków Spytek Wawrzyniec, trough his daughters and grandchildren, passed into hands of the Ligęza, Skotnicki, Zebrzydowski, Orzelski, Przerembski, Tarło and Zborowski families. Some of these estates remained in the possession of his descendants for a long time, while others were transferred to foreign hands.

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