Jan Łaski (1456-1531)

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Jan Łaski as Chancellor.
Jan Łaski as Chancellor.
Clan Korab
Clan Korab

Jan Łaski (March 1456 in Lask - May 19, 1531 in Kalisz, Poland) was a Polish nobleman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown in 1503-1510, diplomate, since 1490 secretary of the King and since 1508 coadjutor of the Archbishop of Lwów. Since 1510 Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland.[1] His Coat of Arms was that of Clan Korab from which his de Lask ancestors descended.

[edit] Works

  • Commune incliti Poloniae regni privilegium (1506) (Statuty Łaskiego)

[edit] Collections of synodal legislation

  • Statuta provincialia (1512)
  • Sanctiones ecclesiasticae tam expontificum decretis quam ex constitutionibus synodorum provinciae excerptae, in primis autem statuta in diversis provincialibus synodis a se sancita (1525)
  • Statuta provinciae Gnesnensis (1527)

[edit] References

  1. ^   "John Laski". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company. 


Preceded by
Andrzej Boryszewski
Primate of Poland
Archbishop of Gniezno

1510 – 1531
Succeeded by
Maciej Drzewiecki
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