John of Szczekocin (died 1433)


Jan Szczekocin (Jan Szczekocki, born 1370, died 1433) - Lublin castellate.

He came from a prominent Odrowąż family, was a son of Piotr from Szczekocin, also castellan of Lublin (died 1384) and owner of Wojciechów village near Nałęczów. At the end of the fourteenth century, after the capture of Władysław Jagiełło castle in Olsztyn (or later, in 1406) was established the starost of Olsztyn. From 1409 the Wieliczka castellan, from 1410 lubelski, in the years 1415-1419 starost general of Wielkopolska

In 1410, during the great war against the Teutonic Knights, he was the commander of the guard troops on the southern border of Poland. At that time, the Hungarian troops of the King Sigismund of Luxembourg were in command, led by Scibor of Sciborzyc (Pole, voegogrodzki voivodeship), who had ransacked the land of Sądecka (including Stary Sacz), but on the way back they were beaten by Jan from Szczekocin already in Hungarian territory, under Bardiow.

In 1413 he represented the Odrowąż family under the act of the Horodrome union, which he signed, accepting the Odrowąż coat of arms of the Lithuanian boyband Wyszegerda.

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