On the Second Alleged Marriage of Mikołaj Zebrzydowski
Abstract
Genealogy as a branch of knowledge that studies family ties, both those arising from ancestry and intermarrying, is the one of the auxiliary disciplines of history, which allows looking at a person portrayed in a biography from the perspective of their relations with individual family members, in addition to the place that the person occupied in the family. It is no different in the case of the Cracow Voivode Mikołaj Zebrzydowski (1553–1620), who has been arousing increasing interest among researchers for some time now. Some have focused on his political activities, including primarily the rebellion he ignited, others have studied the voivode’s religiosity and his associated charitable activities, while others have focused on genealogical issues, including showing Zebrzydowski in the circle of his family, both immediate and distant. The last of the above-mentioned trends is the focus of this article, which responds to inaccuracies appearing in the literature regarding the number of marriages of Mikołaj Zebrzydowski. In recently published works there has been information about two marriages of the Voivode of Cracow, the first of which he was said to have entered into with a woman unknown by name, and the second one with Dorota nee Herburt, who died in 1610. These inaccuracies are a consequence of an incorrectly interpreted entry in The Crown Register (Metrica Regni Poloniae), which is discussed in more detail in this article. This is because the phrase ad secundas nuptias, contained in the entry, refers to a hypothetical marriage that could occur in the future, which would unite Mikołaj Zebrzydowski’s prospective widow, Dorota Herburt, with another man. Thus, the entry in the The Crown Register does not refer to the Zebrzydowski’s marital relationships, and thus says nothing about his alleged second marriage.
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