Zygmunt Przyjemski of

Rawicz Rawicz (; ) is a town in west-central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants as of 2004. It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Leszno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Rawicz County. History The ...

(died 3 June 1652) was a Polish military commander and a member of the administration of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

. In his youth he served in the French army during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine ...

. A general of artillery and, at the same time, the Field Writer of the Crown,(1907).
STANISŁAWA OŚWIĘCIMA DYARYUSZ: 1643-1651
'. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. Pg. 285. (In Polish) he was taken captive by the Cossacks in the Battle of Batoh, in which he commanded the Polish infantry. He was

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

soon afterwards with a few thousands other Polish prisoners taken in that battle.

Bibliography

* Kazimierz Lepszy (red.): ''Słownik biograficzny historii powszechnej do XVII stulecia''. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1968.

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Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish generals 1652 deaths Year of birth unknown Polish nobility Military personnel of the Thirty Years' War {{Poland-mil-bio-stub