Mikołaj Dzierzgowski

Mikołaj (Nicholas) Dzierzgowski (1490–1559) was Archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland.[1][2][3] He was born in 1490 into a szlachta family of the Jastrzębiec coat of arms. He was born out of wedlock to Jeżewskiego de Dzierzgów and either Zbigniewy Wilkanowskiej or Catherine Wilkanowskiej.

His Excellency

Mikołaj Dzierzgowski
Archbishop of Gniezno
Primate of Poland
ChurchRoman Catholic
ArchdioceseGniezno
Installed1543
Term ended1546
Orders
Consecration20 May 1541
Personal details
Born1490
Died19 January 1559
Łowicz
NationalityPolish
Coat of arms

After studying in 1518AD at the Academy of Cracow, he became a royal notary where he became the protégé of Andrzej Krzycki, Bishop of Płock. In 1528, he continued his studies at the University of Padua and in 1541 became bishop of Chełm followed by bishop of Kujawy in 1543. In 1545 he became the archbishopric of Gniezno.[4]

Like his predecessor Jan Laski, he was a leader of the national anti-Habsburg party. A conservative, he actively opposed Jews (especially in Sochaczew) and Protestants (issuing an edict against them on January 13, 1557), and what he a saw as the rampant apostasy in Poland. He once threatened a conference held by Sigismund II Augustus. He called a Synod in Łowicz in 1556AD and a conference of bishops in Warsaw. On December 7, 1550 in Wawel Cathedral, he crowned Queen Barbara Radziwiłł and on July 30, 1555 performed her wedding there. He also crowned Catherine of Habsburg, Sigismund's second wife. Under his influence, Sigismund Augustus issued on January 13, 1557 an edict against religious innovators, against Protestants. He died on Jan. 18, 1559.

References
  1. catholic-hierarchy entry.
  2. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 336, and Page 204
  3. Stanisław Hozjusz; Mikołaj Dzierzgowski; Otto H. F. Vollbehr; Confessio fidei Catholicae Christiana Authoritate Synodi provincialis quae habita est Petricoviae...1551 (Dillingen: S. Mayer 1557.)
  4. A. Gąsiorowski, J. Topolski, Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny. (Warszawa–Poznań: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981, p170.) ISBN 83-01-02722-3.
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