Jakub Sobieski

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Jakub Sobieski
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Noble Family	Sobieski
Coat of Arms	Janina
Parents	Marek Sobieski Jadwiga Snopkowska
Consorts	Marianna Wisniowiecka Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz
Children	with Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz Marek Sobieski Jan III Sobieski Katarzyna Sobieska
Date of Birth	May 5, 1590
Place of Birth	Zółkiew
Date of Death	June 23, 1646
Place of Death	Zółkiew

Jakub Sobieski (1590-1646) was a Polish noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist and father of King Jan III Sobieski. Son of castellan and voivode Marek Sobieski and Jadwiga Snopkowska.

He was courtier since 1617, Krajczy of the Crown since 1626, Podczaszy of the Crown since 1636, voivode of Belz Voivodship since 1638 and of Ruthenian Voivodship since 1641 and castellan of Kraków since 1646. Starost of Trembowla, Krasnystaw, Jaworów, Stryj, Kałusz, Bar and Gniewo.

Sobieski educated in Kraków and Paris. He was a famed orator and parlametarian. He participated in the military expedition (Dymitriads) against Russia in 1617-1618 (wounded during the assault of Moscow), and was a member of the War Council (Rada wojenna) of King Władysław IV.

He took part in negotiations with Muscovy of Daulin in 1618, in the Chocim expedition against the Ottoman Empire in 1621 and the negotiations with Sweden in Szumska Wies in 1635.

As Sejm Marshal he leds the ordinary Sejm in Warsaw on January 24 - March 5, 1623 and on January 27 - March 10, 1626, the extraordinary Sejm in Warsaw on June 27 - July 18, 1628 and the Election Sejm in Warsaw on September 24 - November 15, 1632.

Children

• Marek become starost.
• Jan become Marshal, Hetman and King of Poland.
• Katarzyna married Władysław Dominik Zasławski and Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł.

Works

During the Chocim expedition in 1621 he wrote a diary called Commentariorum chotinensis belli libri tres (Pamiętnik wojny chocimskiej - Diary of the Chocim War), which was published in 1646 in Gdańsk.

Sejm Marshals of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Mikołaj Sienicki | Lew Sapieha | Paweł Orzechowski | Krzysztof Wiesiołowski | Aleksander Korwin Gosiewski | Jakub Sobieski | Stefan Pac | Jerzy Ossoliński | Krzysztof Radziwiłł | Mikołaj Ostroróg | Kazimierz Lew Sapieha | Łukasz Opaliński | Bogusław Leszczyński | Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski | Hieronim Radziejowski | Wincenty Gosiewski | Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro | Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac | Jan Kazimierz Umiastowski | Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł | Jan Wielopolski | Jan Chryzostom Pieniążek | Feliks Kazimierz Potocki | Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski | Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski | Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski | Stanisław Antoni Szczuka | Krzysztof Stanisław Zawisza | Jan Szembek | Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki | Stanisław Denhoff | Franciszek Maksymilian Ossoliński | Teodor Lubomirski | Michał Józef Massalski | Wacław Rzewuski | Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński | Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski | Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski | Jacek Małachowski | Celestyn Czaplic | Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł | Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł | Andrzej Mokronowski | Kazimierz Krasiński | Stanisław Małachowski | Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha

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