Jan Zborowski

{{Short description|Polish royal secretary}}

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| name = Jan Zborowski

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| birth_date = 19 December 1538

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| death_date = 25 August 1603

| death_place = Odolanów

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| parents = Marcin Zborowski

| relatives = Samuel Zborowski (brother);
Krzysztof Zborowski (brother);
Andrzej Zborowski (brother)

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Jan Zborowski (19 December 1538 – 25 August 1603 in Odolanów) was a Polish Court Hetman of the Crown, royal secretary of king Sigismund II Augustus and Lord Castellan of Gniezno (since 1576).

Zborowski was a Lutheran and fought in the Danzig rebellion. He was a supporter of the Warsaw Confederation and an opponent of the Sandomierz Agreement.

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  • {{cite web

|title = Zborowski Jan

|work = Internetowa encyklopedia PWN

|url = http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000812

|language = Polish

|publisher = Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

|accessdate = 2008-01-18

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  • {{cite web

|title = Zborowski Jan

|work = WIEM Encyklopedia

|url = http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/12540,,,,zborowski_jan,haslo.html

|language = Polish

|accessdate = 2008-01-18

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Category:1538 births

Category:1603 deaths

Category:Polish Lutherans

Jan Zborowski

Category:People from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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