Jan Zamoyski (1912–2002)

Jan Zamoyski
Count
Coat of arms Jelita
Consort Róża Źółtowska

Issue

Elżbieta Zamoyska
Maria Róża Zamoyska
Gabriela Zamoyska
Marcin Zamoyski (1947)
Agnieszka Zamoyska
Family Zamoyski
Father Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski
Mother Maria Róża Sapieha
Born (1912-02-12)February 12, 1912
Klemensów
Died June 29, 2002(2002-06-29) (aged 90)
Warsaw

Count Jan Zamoyski (19122002) was a Polish nobleman and politician.

Jan became the 16th Lord of the Zamość estate on the death of his father Maurycy in 1939. During the Second World War he served first as a soldier and after the defeat of Poland in 1939 joined the underground Armia Krajowa.

After the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 he served as a member of the Senate of Poland in the Third Republic of Poland.


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