Odrowąż family

Odrowąż (plural: Odrowążowie or Odrowąże) was an important family of knights in the medieval Kingdom of Poland, strongly allied with the Catholic church in the 12th century.[1]

Ennoblement of the Odrowąż family from Liber Genesos illustris Familiae Shidlovicae
Iwo Odrowąż, Bishop of Kraków
Jan Odrowąż from Sprowa, Archbishop of Poland and Lithuania.

History

Their family seats were in Upper Silesia and in Lesser Poland, and after the 13th-century invasion by the Teutonic Order, they moved to Silesia just within Lesser Poland. The progenitor of the family was Prandota Stary, who came to Poland in the 12th century from Moravia (or possibly Bohemia).

Notable members

Branches of the family

  • Bębnowscy
  • Białaczowscy
  • Chlewiccy
  • Dembińscy
  • Kamieńscy
  • Koneccy (vel Konieccy)
  • Maliccy (from Malice Kcyńskie)
  • Modliszewscy
  • Sprowscy
  • Sypniewski
  • Szydłowiecki
  • Wądołowscy

Coat of arms

The family used the Odrowąż coat of arms.

Palaces

See also

References

  1. "Odrowąże - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy".
  2. Feliks Kiryk. "Jan Odrowąż, h. Odrowąż" (in Polish). iPSB. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. "Jan of Sprowa, prekon. 1453" (in Polish). Prymas Polski. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
  4. Jan ze Sprowy, Biogramy.pl., https://www.biogramy.pl/a/biografia/jan-ze-sprowy-sprowski


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