Sulmierzyce () is a town in
Krotoszyn County,
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
.
It is the birthplace of famous
Polish poet
Sebastian Klonowic
Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (1545 Sulmierzyce – 29 August 1602 Lublin) was a Polish poet, composer and mayor of Lublin.
Biography
He studied at the University of Kraków. He was also known by his Latin name, Acernus, and wrote in both Polish ...
.
History
Sulmierzyce was granted
town rights
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the tradition ...
in 1457 by King
Casimir IV Jagiellon
Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; ; Lithuanian: ; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under ...
thanks to efforts of
starost
Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', ) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.
The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...
of
Odolanów Mikołaj Gruszczyński. It was a
royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Kalisz County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province. The 1st Polish National Cavalry Brigade was stationed in the town.
Demographics
References
Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship
Krotoszyn County
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