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  1. Feb 28, 2023 · Already John's family had been famous guests in the city. Sobieski with family painted by Henri Gascar.Now the statue overlooks the little park at the old Gdansk town hall, now a museum. King John III Sobieski, the last great king of Poland, died in Wilanów, Poland on June 17, 1696.

    • "Jonas Sobieskis", "King John III of Poland"
    • Olesko,Now:,Ukraine,SSR
    • August 17, 1629
    • June 17, 1696 (66)Wilanow,Nr.,Warsaw,Poland
  2. Biography Youth Olesko Castle, the birthplace of John Sobieski. John Sobieski was born on 17 August 1629, in Olesko, now in Ukraine, then part of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to a renowned noble family de Sobieszyn Sobieski of Janina coat of arms.

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  4. The family reached the height of its power and importance in the late 16th and 17th centuries, when one of its members was elected King of Poland: John III Sobieski (Jan III Sobieski). The last male member of the branch of the family that began with John's grandfather, Marek Sobieski, in the 16th century was Jakub Ludwik Sobieski (1667–1737).

    Name
    Born
    Death
    Parents
    c. 1450
    1508/1516
    Mikołaj SobieskiJadwiga
    c. 1460
    after 1508
    Mikołaj SobieskiJadwiga
    c. 1486
    1557
    Stanisław Sobieski Małgorzata ...
    c. 1518
    1564
    Sebastian Sobieski Barbara Giełczewska
  5. Mar 15, 2024 · June 17, 1696, Wilanów (aged 66) Title / Office: king (1674-1696), Poland. Role In: Siege of Vienna. John III Sobieski (born August 17, 1629, Olesko, Poland—died June 17, 1696, Wilanów) was the elective king of Poland (1674–96), a soldier who drove back the Ottoman Turks and briefly restored the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania to greatness ...

  6. King Jan III Sobieski, nicknamed by the Turks the "Lion of Lehistan", and the last great king of Poland, died in Wilanów, Poland on June 17, 1696. His wife, Maria Kasimira, died in 1716 in Blois, France and her body was returned to Poland. They are interred together in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland.King Jan III was succeeded by Augustus II ...

  7. JOHN III SOBIESKI, KING OF POLAND Reigned 1674 to 1696; b. Olesko, Galicia, June 2, 1624; d. Wilanow, June 17, 1696. Through his mother, he inherited the Zolkiewski fortune; through his father, the enormous Sobieski estates. He was one of the wealthiest nobles in Poland. Later, he augmented his fortune through his marriage to Marie Kazimiera d ...

  8. Jun 11, 2018 · John III (John Sobieski) (sôbyĕ´skē), 1624–96, king of Poland (1674–96), champion of Christian Europe against the Ottomans. Born to an ancient noble family, he was appointed (1668) commander of the Polish army.

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