Marianna z Bremerów Ossolińska (zm. 1688), chorążyna nurska, jako testatorka
Marianna Ossolińska (died in 1688), née Bremer, Khorunzhyi of Nur as a testatrix

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to reconstruct the biography of the author of her last will – Marianna Ossolińska (died in 1688), née Bremer, the Khorunzhyi of Nur, as well as to show her worldview. The reconstruction which is made on the basis of her will and a few other incomplete documents (marriage contract, family documents, posthumous inventory) is a risky activity due to the fact that her character is described only with information which the testatrix herself wanted to reveal. The possibility to expand the data by adding new sources increases our knowledge about the testatrix, but does not give a complete picture. Marianna’s (the heiress of Ciechanowiec - a town in Podlasie by Nurzec) will, written according to the Baroque tradition, provides us with some essential information about family connections of the House of Ossoliński in the second half of the 18th century. The document under consideration, detailed and referring to Baroque funeral rhetoric, was written in Ciechanowiec on January 17 in 1688, probably soon before the testatrix’s death. Not only does it make an interesting biographical source, but also a basis for analyzing the testatrix’s mentality.

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