Jan Piotr Sapieha

Jan Piotr Sapieha

Jan Piotr Sapieha (1569-1611) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic). Starosta uświacki, pułkownik królewski, son of Paweł Sapieha (1523-1580) and Anna Chodkiewiczowna (1540- 1595), married to Zofia Weiher, father of Jan Paweł Sapieha. Participant of the Polish-Swedish War - brought a private chorągiew of 100 Cossacks, and commanded he right wing (400 hussars, 700 Cossack cavalry) of Polish-Lithuanian army during the famous Battle of Kircholm in 1605. Participant of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618), where he commanded the failed siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1608 and later fought anti-Polish Muscovite forces near Moscow (the so called First Volunteer Army, led by Prokopy Lyapunov). Died on October 15 during the siege of Moscow Kremlin, buried at Leipūnai/Vilnius.

Jan Piotr Sapieha is one of the personas on the famous painting by Jan Matejko: the sermons of Piotr Skarga.


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