Krąg rodzinny Katarzyny z Sienna Myszkowskiej (zm. 1619), podczaszyny lubelskiej. Studium genealogiczno-obyczajowe
The family circle of Katarzyna Myszkowska née Sienieńska (died 1619), the Lublin cup-bearer’s (pocillator) wife. A genealogical and relating to customs study

Summary/Abstract: Katarzyna Sienieńska Dębno coat of arms was a representative of well-known senatorial family. On the basis of the researched sources, it was possible to try to outline her biography. The author presented her fate from her early youth until her death. In the biography of Katarzyna Sienieńska, it seems important that she got married three times. She was the wife of the pantler (dapifer) of Przemyśl Jan Biejkowski, the sub-judge (subiudex) of Przemyśl Mikołaj Ostrowski, and the cupbearer (pocillator) of Lublin, Stanisław Myszkowski. Thanks to these marriages, she accumulated a considerable fortune. She had a daughter Zuzanna with her second husband, and a son Maurycy and a daughter Anna with the third. The history of life of Katarzyna Myszkowska née Sienieńska was presented against a broad historical background. The author developed the genealogy of Lublin line of Sienieński family, unknown to the authors of armorials, from which the heroine of this study came. He also cited many facts from the lives of the families of Katarzyna’s subsequent husbands. He devoted a lot of space to the property matters of the Sienieński, Biejkowski, Ostrowski and Myszkowski families as well. He also presented the history of the fierce struggle for Katarzyna’s inheritance between her children and her stepson, Jan Myszkowski. An interesting source report is attached to the text of the article, which presents the course of the violent dispute over the lodgings, in which Katarzyna and her husband Stanisław Myszkowski played the main role.

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