Polish medieval CoA OstojaThe coat of arms of Ostoja Ochockich published in 1673 in the work "Sapiens magni animi umbra" by Bieżanowski[1]Page 632 from the Krakow Soviet Book covering the years 1612–1621 with a list of councilors, including Gabriel Ochocki[2]Autograph of the diarist Jan Duklan Ochocki from 1819.[3]Title page of the first volume of Jan Duklan Ochocki'sMemoirs, published in 1857 by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.[4]Plaque commemorating Mirosław Ochocki and other writers from Łódź (House of Writers in Łódź, photo from 2011).
The oldest source certificates concerning the family
Listed below are selected source certificates concerning the Ochockis of the Ostoja coat of arms and Ochocice, their nest village.
The oldest mention of Ochocice comes from 1386, from the Sieradz land book, Inscriptiones, covering the years 1386–1402.[8]
In 1400 Mikołaj of Ochocice appears in the sources.[9]
In 1405, Dominik from Ochocice and Jakub, also from Ochocice,[10] sued for inflicted wounds. Probably the same Dominik of Ochocice tried in 1406 with Paweł of Jacków.[11]
Ochocice is mentioned in the "Liber beneficiorum of the Archdiocese of Gniezno", a work written in two parts on the order of Jan Łaski, the archbishop of Gniezno, in the years 1511–1523. According to this description, the tithing of the field and farmland in Ochocice was transferred to the church in Kamieńsk, and the peasants of Ochocice also paid 2 groszy of the hemp tithing.[12]
The Krakow Soviet book covering the years 1612–1621 contains a list of councilors elected for 1617, including the juror Mikołaj Pernus, elected to replace the deceased councilor Gabriel Ochocki.[13]
In the Krakow city accounting book covering the year 1648 there is a list of payments for members of the council in office for the mayor, with Gabriel Ochocki among the remunerated.[14]
Land estates and municipal properties belonging to the family
Listed below are the most important estates and municipal properties belonging to the Ochocki family of the Ostoja coat of arms.
Important municipal properties: a tenement house at Rynek 12A in Krakow (known as the Kamienicą Fontanowską), a tenement house at ul. Floriańska 7 in Krakow (known as the House of the Mother of God), the tenement house at ul. Floriańska 16 in Krakow (called the Ochockich Tenement House), the tenement house at ul. st. Jana 12 in Krakow (called Kamienica Krauzowska).
Gabriel Ochocki (died 1616) - a juror, councilor and mayor of the city of Krakow. He was the owner of a tenement house at the Market Square (No. 12A).[13] He married Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Fontani.[6]
Sebastian Ochocki (died after 1640) - a Kraków juror, remained in the middle class and dealt with trade. He was the son of the councilor and mayor of Kraków, Gabriel Ochocki.[6][13]
Barbara Aleksandra Ochocka (died after 1640) - daughter of Gabriel Ochocki, councilor and mayor of Krakow. She was the wife of Maciej Wojeński, councilor, doctor of medicine and rector of the Krakow Academy.[6]
Gabriel Ochocki (1601-1673) - professor and rector of the Krakow Academy, councilor and mayor of Krakow, owner of the Żabno estate with the town of Żabno. He was the son of Gabriel, a juror, councilor and mayor of Kraków, and Elżbieta née Fontani. He married Barbara Brykner, daughter of Stanisław.[6]
Jan Ochocki (died after 1675) - a member of the Order of Brothers Preachers. He entered the Dominican monastery in Kraków on September 13, 1661.[19] He studied at the Krakow Academy. In the years 1674–1675 he studied in Spain, then at the Sopra Minerva College in Rome. He was the son of Gabriel Ochocki, rector of the Krakow Academy, councilor and mayor of Krakow.[6]
Piotr Ochocki (died after 1681) - a city juror in Kraków, a carpenter in Grabowiec. He was the son of Gabriel, a juror, councilor and mayor of Krakow.[6]
Gabriel Ochocki (died 1682) - doctor, professor of medicine at the Krakow Academy, councilor and mayor of Krakow, owner of the Strzelce estate near Brzesko. He married Anna, the daughter of Stanisław Spinek, a doctor of laws and a councilor from Kraków.[20]
Gabriel Ochocki (died after 1699) - a bachelor and master of philosophy at the Krakow Academy, in the years 1696–1698 he lectured at the Artium Faculty, then became a Marianaltarist before 1699. He was the son of Gabriel and Anna née Spinków.[20]
Kazimierz Jan Ochocki (died after 1704) - a Kraków burgher. He was the son of Gabriel Ochocki, rector of the Krakow Academy, councilor and mayor of Krakow.[6] His spouse was Katarzyna née Karmichel, who had a mortgage from Katarzyna Lubomirska née Sapieha and her sons in the villages of Gorzyce, Wielopole, Borek, Pilica, Jadomierz, Dąbrówka and Bucze.[21]
Mikołaj Ochocki (died after 1704) - bachelor and master of the Krakow Academy, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, rector (senior) of the school of St. Anna in Krakow. In 1704, with gifts from the Krakow City Council, as a seminarian, he received the Corpus Christi altar in St. Mary's Church. He was the son of Gabriel and Anna née Spinków.[20]
Jan Ochocki (died after 1705) - bachelor and master of the Krakow Academy, doctor of law, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, rector (senior) of the Wawel castle school.[22] He was the son of a medical doctor, councilor and mayor of Krakow, Gabriel Ochocki and Anna née Spinków.[20]
Franciszek Ochocki (died after 1786) - a Smolensk hunter,[23] representative of the starost of Piotr Małachowski, tenant of the village of Pleszów.[24]
Mirosław Ochocki (1927-1988) - writer, poet, literary critic, researcher at the University of Łódź and the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź. He was a member of the editorial staff of the Lodz magazines "Kronika" and "Osnowa", he also worked for the Lodz television.[26] He lived in Łódź, in a tenement house at ul. Kościuszki 98 (House of Writers in Łódź) with a plaque commemorating famous writers (including himself) associated with this place.[27]
^S. J. Bieżanowski, Sapiens magni animi vmbra, conseruandae immortali memoriae [...] Gabrielis Ochocki [...], dvm in ecclesia B. M. V. in circulo Cracouiensi sepulchrales eius exuuiae [...] tumularentur, Kraków 1673, s. Av.
^Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie, Acta inscriptionum, sygn. 458, s. 632.
^Autografy nowsze ze zbioru Władysława Górskiego. T. 9, Nakwaski – Ożarowski, zbiory Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej, XIX w.
^J. D. Ochocki, Pamiętniki Jana Duklana Ochockiego, t. I-IV, Wilno 1857.
^S. Uruski, Rodzina. Herbarz szlachty polskiej, Warszawa 1904-1931, t. XII, s. 238.
^ abcdefghiL. Hajdukiewicz, Ochocki starszy Gabriel, [w:] „Polski Słownik Biograficzny”, t. XXIII, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1978, s. 492–495.
^K. Niesiecki, Herbarz polski, wyd. J.N. Bobrowicz, Lipsk 1839-1845, t. VII, s. 19.
^S. Zajączkowski, S. M. Zajączkowski, Materiały do słownika geograficzno-historycznego dawnych ziem łęczyckiej i sieradzkiej do 1400 roku. Część II, Łódź 1970, s. 9.
^A. Gieysztor, Fragmenty zapisek herbowych piotrkowskich i radomskich województwa sieradzkiego XIV i XV w., [w:] „Przegląd Historyczny”, 1948, t. 37, s. 380.
^R. Hube, Zbiór rot przysiąg sądowych poznańskich, kościańskich, kaliskich, sieradzkich, piotrkowskich i dobrzyszyckich, Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych, Warszawa 1888, s. 112.
^R. Hube, Zbiór rot przysiąg sądowych poznańskich, kościańskich, kaliskich, sieradzkich, piotrkowskich i dobrzyszyckich, Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych, Warszawa 1888, s. 119.
^L. Hajdukiewicz, Krakowska szkoła zamkowa 1510-1801, [w:] „Studia do dziejów Wawelu”, t. I, Kraków 1955, s. 306.
^J. Grzybowska, Inwentarz rękopisów Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej, część I, PWN, Warszawa-Kraków 1977, s. 74.
^Słownik miejscowości i elity wiejskiej zachodniej Małopolski w latach 1772–1815, Ł. Jewuła, T. Kargol, K. Ślusarek (oprac.), Kraków 2015.
^A. Tomaszek, Palestrancka kariera Jana Dunklana Ochockiego – przyczynek do dziejów palestry schyłku Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej, [w:] Palestra, nr 11/2018, s. 94–100.
