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:

In 1358, Knight Jakusz ( Jakub ) Ostoja coat of arms is the owner of Błociszewo. From the year 1370 comes famous seal of the Knights Ostoja coat of arms of Lviv governor. In the year 1393 in Błociszewio 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 earth . 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 .