Genealogia Kochanowskich z Kierszkowa od końca XV do połowy XIX w.
The Genealogy of the Kochanowski family from Kierszków from the end of the 15th century to the half of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the geneaology of one of the less common trees of the Kochanwski family of the Korwin coat of arms. Like all Kochanowskis, the representatives of this family tree came from the region of Radom, and wrote in Kierzków in the parish of Cerkiew (today a district of the city of Radom). It is Andrzej ‘Gierasz’, dead about 1520, a grandfather of the bard Jan from Czarnolas, that is supposed to be considered the progenitor of the family. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, the Kochanowski family from Kierzków spread all over the contemporaneous Lesser Poland. They owned properties and/or held office in Sandomierz Voivodeship, Lublin Voivodeship, Volhynian Voivodeship, as well as in the Ruthenian Voivodeship. Some of the family members upgraded to middleincome gentry in the 17th century, and in the 18th century they upgraded to wealthy gentry, and three of them became senators (Feliks, the son of Seweryn and Ciszewska, became the first senator in 1724). They didn’t hold office higher than minor castellans, however they actively participated in the political life of Poland. They showed a similar active participation in the first half of the 19th century, but the male line died out already at the beginning of the second half the 19th century.

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