Feliks Kryski

Feliks Szczęsny Kryski (1562-1618) was the Polish nobleman, politician, writer, and orator. He was Grand Chancellor of Poland from 1613 until his death.[1]

Biography

Feliks Kryski was a Polish nobleman of a line of Mazovian dukes that first came to power in 1429. He was born 1562 in Dobrzyń, the son of Paweł Kryski z Kryska and Anna Srzenska and brother to Wojciech Kryski.[2]

Kryski was speaker on the sejms of 1603 and 1607. He was an ardent supporter of king Sigismund III, supporting him in the clashes with Jan Zamoyski's party. Kryski was a close associate of Grand Marshal of the Crown, Zygmunt Myszkowski and through the connections he became one of the closest advisers of Sigismund III. He held the title of Wojski of Zakroczym.

During the Zebrzydowski Rebellion he stood faithfully by the monarch. His polemical writing Deklaracja pana wojewody krakowskiego refuted allegations of rebels. In 1609 he became the Deputy Chancellor of the Crown. He prepared the expedition to Russia, organizing pro-war propaganda. He has published several letters including the Diskurs słusznej wojny z Moskwą, rationes pro et contra. He accompanied the king in the expedition to Moscow in 1610. On the Russian border he made ​​a speech in which he congratulated to the Polish king successful entry to Russia, which "those fat people, that dared to and did maintain for 96 years".

He was an uncompromising advocate of annexation of Russia. In 1611 organized a solemn homage to Sigismund III captured the tsar Vasily Shuiski and his family. In 1612 he accompanied the king in his siege of Moscow. In 1613 became the Grand Chancellor of the Crown. His predecessor had been Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński and he Kryski was Marszałek Sejmu I Rzeczypospolitej , and upon Kryski's death was followed by his Successor Stanisław Białłozor.

Kryski died in the year 1618 and was buried in the Kryskis' Chapel, Church of St. Anne in Warsaw, Poland by his widow Sophia Łubienska. To commemorate the deceased, his widow founded around the year 1620 a separate chapel,[3] dostawioną the northern facade of the church, founded on a rectangular plan, brick, plastered, covered with a dome, as if embedded in a four-sided roof with a lantern, topped with a cross, represented the first in Warsaw, this type of late Renaissance building. Its walls decorated with intersecting pairs of Tuscan pilasters on high pedestals, divided the pairs of rectangular windows, przesklepionych arc. In the basement of the chapel, and soon came upon the son of Felix - Paul Kryski.[1] (zmarl.1624 ) standard-bearer of King Sigismund III and kowelski governor, and several years later - Łubienski Kryska Zofia, died in 1650 buried in the chapel of All persons commemorated were epitaphs, wmurowanymi the wall.

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