Piotr of Klecia
Piotr of Klecia also known as Peter Ivanovich, or Peter of Goraj, was a 14th-century knight and courtier in Poland.[1][2] When he moved to the court of Casimir the Great, he established powerful szlachta family that would influence both state and church politics in Poland for the next two centuries.
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Born about 1320 Peter was the son of Gus of Goraj the Lord of Goraj. Peter had a son Dmitry, to whom King Louis I of Hungary gave the villages of Goraj, and Turobin on 26 July 1377. Peter also had a son, Ivan. In 1353 with his brothers Chodkiem and Ostaszkiem, Peter received from King Casimir III the great a dozen villages including: Klecie, Czermno, Januszkowice, Glinik, and Bukowa, Smarżowa, and Kamienica Górna and Skurową.
Family
His descendants included:
- Dobiesław Kurozwęcki (d. 1397) politician and Castellan of Kraków.
- Jan Oleśnicki (d. 1413) Starosta of Vilnius and a judge in Kraków.
- Zbigniew Oleśnicki
- Dymitr of Sienna (d. 1465), Castellan of Sanok and Priest in Skalbmierski, Canon of Kraków in 1452, and Gniezno from 1454, and heir to estates at Rymanowa
- Nicholas of Sienna (d. 1484), Canon of Kraków, a Scholasticus from 1448, Canon of Gniezno from 1455, Archdeacon of Sandomierz from 1478.
- Jan of Sienna and Oleska (died before 1477) Castellan of Lwów, Przemysl of the Chamber in 1439-1448, and Starost of Sandomierz.
- Jakob of Sienna (1413-1480), Archbishop of Gniezno from 1474, Bishop of Krakow, Bishop of Włocławek.
- Paul of Sienna (c. 1410-1444) the Royal Secretary (1439), royal courtier (1444)
- Andrzej Sienieński (d. 1494) Chamberlain of Sandomierz
- John Sienieński from Sienna and Oleska (d. between 1510-1513), Castellan of Małogoszcz.
- Victor Sienieński (c.1463 - 31 March 1530) Castellan of małogoszcz
- John Sienieński from Sienna and Gołogór (d. after 1526), Castellan of Kamieniec.
References
- Dariusz Kupisz ,’’Zbigniew Gorajski (1596-1655)’’, Studium z dziejów szlachty protestanckiej w Małopolsce w pierwszej połowie XVII wieku". Pierwsza monografia kasztelana chełmskiego i kijowskiego, dyplomaty, pisarza i parlamentarzysty. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper
- Stanisław Kazimierz Kossakowski, Monografie historyczno-genealogiczne niektórych rodzin polskich, Warszawa, 1872