History of Błociszewski family

Błociszewski - old line of the Ostoja family, origin from ancient nobility (German [Uradel], Knights and Lords. Jakusz de Blociszewo, Duke of Lviv year 1370. Mikołaj, Lord Castellan of Santok 1406-1414. Family name origin from the property of Błociszewo in Kościan County. Gajewski de Gaj of Ostoja origin from this family.

History of the family

Other well-known data on the Błociszewscy family tree:

The owner of Błociszewo in 1358 is the Knight Jakusz ( Jakub ) Ostoja coat of arms . From the year 1370 comes famous seal of the Knights Ostoja coat of arms of Lviv governor. In the year 1393 in Błociszewo is noted knight Mirosz Ostoja coat of arms in 1393 he was judge of Poznan county. In the year 1408 the brothers Jan and Mikoaj Błociszewscy built parish Church in Błociszewo of course with the permission of the Wojciech Jastrzębiec bishop of the Poznan county . On the property of Gaj that belonged to Błociszewo Wincenty Błociszewski to document the national community in 1540 takes the name Gajewski and from that time they are called Gajewscy from Błociszewo. At the end of sixteenth century and the early seventheenth Błociszewscy have had very prominent representative - Jan Błociszewski - judge of Poznan county ; deputy of a diplomatic mission to Hungary during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa . At the time of Zebrzydowski Rebellion on the side of the King Jan retains the regions of Wielkopolska. He goes with the King on the war that has started when Dymitr Samozwaniec was killed . Fighting bravely with the enemy dies on the battlefield in the battle of Moscow . Franciszek Błociszewski Chancellor of College of Krosno and Sandomierz , Jesuit . To well-deserved still belong Franciszek subvoivode of Poznań (1746-1748) ; district administrator of Grójec . Tadeusz Generał Major of the Polish Army , cavalier of Saint Stanisław's order and the White Eagle in 1791 the General Confederation - Constitution of 1792 as a Deputy of Łęczyce . Brothers Kazimierz and Tadeusz Błociszewscy from which first has lost his leg in the Battle under Mirosławiec in 1848 and second in the Battle of the Książ has lost his shoulder . They have had emigrated to Paris . Kazimierz is the author of six-volume of Historia Powszechna .

Major Stanisław Błociszewski - Heir of Smogorzewo , Ciołkowo , Sobiesiernia and Rogowo , oficer of Polish armies from 1831 ; cavalier of the Golden Virtuti Military Cross ; insurgent in 1848 and in 1863 . Jan I , the canon and the founder of a Chapel in Rome .

Well-known representatives of the family

• Jakusz of Błociszewo - Voivode of Lwow 1370