Katarzyna Telniczanka

Katarzyna Telniczanka (1480–1528), was a Polish noble. She was the royal mistress of king Sigismund I the Old, and the mother of three children by the monarch.[1][2]

Life

Katarzyna, who was reputedly not of noble birth, may have taken her surname from her place of origin - the village of Ternice in Moravia.[3][4] However, her original family name may have been Ochstat.[5][6] She became the mistress of the king c. 1498.

She was the mother of John of the Lithuanian Dukes, future bishop of Poznań (8 January 1499 – 18 February 1538), Regina (1500/1 – 20 May 1526), wed c. 20 October 1518 Hieronim Szafraniec, Starost of Cieszyn (d. 1556/59), and Katarzyna (1503 – before 9 September 1548), wed after 1522 George II Count von Montfort in Pfannberg (d. 1544).

In 1509, she married the nobleman Andrzej Kościelecki.[7] She had one child while married, Beata Łaska z Kościeleckich, who was reputed to be the child of the Sigismund as well.[2]

She followed her son John to his position in Lithuania, where she had great influence in his court.

References

  1. ^ Matheson-Pollock, Helen; Paul, Joanne; Fletcher, Catherine (2018-07-16). Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-76974-5.
  2. ^ a b Segel, Harold B. (1989). Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2286-7.
  3. ^ Rożek, Michał (2008). Meandry kultury czyli Galimatias nie tylko krakowski (in Polish). Wydawn. WAM. ISBN 978-83-7505-249-7.
  4. ^ Bartkiewicz, Kazimierz (1998). Ludzie Środkowego Nadodrza: wybrane szkice biograficzne (XII-XX wiek) (in Polish). Wydawn. Verbum. ISBN 978-83-909375-0-2.
  5. ^ Wójcik-Góralska, Danuta (1987). Niedoceniana królowa (in Polish). Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza. ISBN 978-83-205-3903-5.
  6. ^ Kempa, Tomasz (2002). Dzieje rodu Ostrogskich (in Polish). Wydawn. Adam Marszałek. ISBN 978-83-7174-971-1.
  7. ^ Sokołowski, August (1897). Dzieje Polski illustrowane (in Polish). nakład Maurycego Perlesa.
  • Wdowiszewski Z., Genealogia Jagiellonów i Domu Wazów w Polsce, Kraków 2005, pp. 182–186.