Odrowąż family explained

200px|thumb|right|Ennoblement of the Odrowąż family from Liber Genesos illustris Familiae ShidlovicaeOdrowąż (plural: Odrowążowie or Odrowąże) was an important family of knights in the medieval Kingdom of Poland, strongly allied with the Catholic church in the 12th century.^[1]

History

Their family seats were in Upper Silesia and in Lesser Poland, and after the 13th-century invasion by the Teutonic Order, they moved to Silesia just within Lesser Poland. The progenitor of the family was Prandota Stary, who came to Poland in the 12th century from Moravia (or possibly Bohemia).

Notable members

• Iwo Odrowąż, Archbishop of Gniezno, Archbishop of Kraków
• Czesław Odrowąż vel Blessed Ceslaus
• Jacek Odrowąż vel saint Hyacinth of Poland
• Bronisława Odrowąż vel Blessed Bronisława
• Jan Prandota, Archbishop of Kraków
• Jan Odrowąż, Archbishop of Lwów^[2]
• Jan II Odrowąż of Sprowa, Archbishop of Gniezno^{[3] [4]}
• Andrzej Odrowąż, Voivode of Podole, founder of the Bernardine Church in Lwów.
• Jan Odrowąż of Sprowa, starost of Lwów, Voivode of Ruthenia and Voivode of Podole
• Jan of Szczekociny, castellan of Lublin
• Piotr Odrowąż of Sprowa, starost of Lwów, Voivode of Ruthenia and Podole
• Zofia Odrowąż, married Hetman Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski h. Leliwa
• Stanisław Odrowąż, Voivode of Ruthenia and Podole, married to Anna of Masovia
• Jakub Dembiński, Great Chancellor of the Crown
• Strasz of Białaczów, knight, starost of Łęczyca

Branches of the family

• Bębnowscy
• Białaczowscy
• Chlewiccy
• Dembińscy
• Kamieńscy
• Koneccy (vel Konieccy)
• Kryszkowski
• Maliccy (from Malice Kcyńskie)
• Modliszewscy
• Sprowscy
• Sypniewski
• Szydłowiecki
• Waligórscy
• Wądołowscy

Coat of arms

The family used the Odrowąż coat of arms.

Related Houses

• clan Gryf
• Piast dynasty
• clan Łabędź
• Kołda of clan Oksza
• House of Spyra of clan Pernus

See also

• Odrowąż, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
• Sypniewski

Notes and References

1. Web site: Odrowąże - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy.
2. Web site: Feliks Kiryk. Jan Odrowąż, h. Odrowąż. iPSB. Polish. 15 March 2019.
3. Web site: Jan of Sprowa, prekon. 1453 . Prymas Polski . Polish . 2015-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422090511/http://www.prymaspolski.pl/pl/historia/poczet_prymasow_polski_/jan_sprowski_prekon_1453_r.html . 2016-04-22 . dead .
4. Jan ze Sprowy, Biogramy.pl., https://www.biogramy.pl/a/biografia/jan-ze-sprowy-sprowski