Zygmunt Kazanowski

Zygmunt Kazanowski of the Grzymała coat of arms (born c. 1563, died 1634) was a noble (szlachcic) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, He was a courtier to kings Stephen Báthory and Sigismund III Vasa, and a tutor, advisor and to Prince and later King Władysław Vasa.

Biography

Family He was born around 1563. ), Katarzyna, Aleksandra, , and Adam. Before 1615, he married Elżbieta Humnicka.

During the Russian campaign of 1617, he supported his relative Marcin Kazanowski against Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, which historian assessed negatively as intrigue-driven factiousness. He signed the king’s pacta conventa.

During the funerals of King Sigismund III and Queen Constance, he carried the royal insignia.

Author In 1630, he wrote Dyskurs o sejmie w 1630 r. (“Discourse on the Sejm of 1630”) concerning parliamentary reform. He was also the author of a work on the reign of Sigismund III entitled Res gestae Sigismundii Tertii Poloniae et Sueciae Regis, Magnique Ducis Lituaniae, dedicated to Prince Władysław.