Andrzej Zamoyski

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Andrzej Zamoyski
Noble Family	Zamoyski
Coat of Arms	Jelita
Parents	Michał Zdzisław Zamoyski Anna Działyńska
Consorts	Konstancja Czartoryska
Children	with Konstancja Czartoryska Aleksander August Zamoyski Stanislaw Kostka Zamoyski Anna Zamoyska
Date of Birth	October 12, 1716
Place of Birth	Biezun, Poland
Date of Death	February 10, 1792
Place of Death	Zamość, Poland

Count Andrzej Hieronim Franciszek Zamoyski (1716-1792) was a Polish noble (szlachcic). Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on August 3, 1758 in Warsaw.

He was the 10th Ordynat of the Zamość Ordynacja properties. Between 1757 and 1764 voivode of the Inowrocław Voivodship. From 1764 until 1767 Great Crown Chancellor and starost of Halicz, Lublin, Brodnica and Rostoki.

He married Princess Konstancja Czartoryska in Warsaw in 1768.

Andrzej was one of the very greatest humanists, reformers and thinkers in the history of Poland. He was one of the authors of a plan for general reform of Poland offered to the Sejm in May, 1764. It called for improvements in the parliamentary system, a limitation of the power of the nobility and the abolition of serfdom.

In 1760 he was the first of the Polish magnates to replace serfdom on his estates. King Stanisław August Poniatowski and Sejm commissioned him in 1776 to produce a new legal code for Poland, the renowned Code Zamoyski. By 1780, under Zamoyski's direction, a code (Zbiór praw sądowych) had been produced. It would have strengthened royal power, made all officials answerable to the Sejm, placed the clergy and their finances under state supervision, and deprived landless szlachta of many of their legal immunities. Zamoyski's progressive legal code, containing elements of constitutional reform, failed to be adopted by the Sejm.

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