Karol Ferdynand Vasa

Karol Ferdynand Waza

Parents

Sigismund III Vasa,
Constance of Austria

Date of Birth

Place of Birth

Date of Death

Place of Death

Place of Burial

Jesuits' Church in Warsaw^[1]

Charles Ferdinand Vasa (Karol Ferdynand Waza) (October 13, 1613 in Warsaw - May 9, 1655 in Wyszków), was a Polish bishop of Wrocław from 1625, bishop of Płock from 1640 and Duke of Opole from 1648 to 1655.

[edit] Biography

Charles Ferdinand was the fourth son of King Sigismund III Vasa and his wife Constance of Austria and the brother of John Casimir, John Albert, Alexander Charles and Anna Catherine Constance.

Charles Ferdinand was a great patron of art and supporter of the Society of Jesus (he found enormous silver altar for the Jesuits' Church in Warsaw^[2]). In the 1640s, royal architect, Giovanni Battista Gisleni built for him a palace situated on the northern bastion of the Warsaw's Royal Castle fortifications. It was later ransacked and destroyed by Sweds and Germans of Brandenburg in 1650s, during the Deluge^[3]. He also had a large wooden palace in Wyszków.

Karol Ferdynand Waza

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Prince-Bishop's palace situated on the northern bastion of the Warsaw's Royal Castle fortifications.

Monument dedicated to memory of Karol Ferdynand Waza in Wyszków, erected after his death in 1655.^[4]

He rebuilt the Castle in Otmuchów, after devastation during the Thirty Years' War.^[5]

^ Alicja Saar-Kozłowska, Infantka Szwecji i Polski, Anna Wazówna.
^ Lileyko Jerzy, Życie codzienne w Warszawie za Wazów, Warszawa, 1984. ISBN 8306010213
^ Ibid.
^ Wyszków website
^ Otmuchów. Gotycki zamek biskupi rozbudowany w stylu renesansowym i barokowym.