Zaangażowanie Tomasza Zamoyskiego w problemy konfederacji lwowskiej 1622 roku
Tomasz Zamoyski’s Involvement in the Problems of the Lviv Confederation of 1622

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the Confederation sworn in Lviv in February 1622, which is also called the Kowenicki Confederation, after the name of its marshal. The Lviv Confederation took place just after the devastating siege of Khotyn Fortress in the fall of 1621, which ended the military conflict between the Commonwealth of Poland and the Ottoman Empire. At the time of the Lviv Confederation, in addition to financial requests, the army representatives demanded that King Sigismund III should meet their high political expectations. The radicalism of the military representatives forced the king and the country’s main decision-makers to act more vigorously in order to quell the rebellion of the disobedient soldiers. Due to the absence of the crown hetmans during the negotiations with the confederates, it was the powerful magnates that gradually took control of the confederate army. The personal rivalry between the confederated magnates over goods and offices for themselves and their military clients manifested itself in the pressure exerted on the king and the soldiers, bribery, and slander. The author analyzes these issues mainly on the example of the the Voivode of Kiev, Tomasz Zamoyski, and his rival, Stanisław Lubomirski.

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