The Chancellor Jan Zamoyski:

This would be The Republic of Poland
As the upbringing and education of its youth would be like.

Maecenas of culture and science

• Jan Sariusz Zamoyski was born on 19^th March 1542 in the countryside called Skokówka near Zamość.  He was the son of Stanisław  - the starost of Bełk.  J. S. Zamoyski was a man of a noble birth.
• After a few years’ education in Krasnystaw, he left to study at Parisian College Royal in Sorbona. Then our patron attended a famous Calvinist School of Jan Strum in Strasburg. Next he learnt at University in Padwa, where he got his PhD degree in Law and became a rector. Without a doubt – Zamoyski was one of the most educated Polishmen in the XVI century.
• Knowledge was the priority for him, he always emphasized its value: "I sacrifice all of me to science. When I was young it was science that was my element, it was my sweetness when I was old. It was my consolation during facing adversities,  the guide and master on a senatorial chair.”
• He together with Stefan Batory strived for establishing a new University in Cracow similar to Parisian Royal College.  It did not succeed at the beginning, but first in 1589 in Zamość there was established a high school under the management of a famous poet – Sebastian Klonowic and six years later Zamoyski Academy came into being.
• He gathered rare Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Armenian manuscripts which were imported with a big cost from distant Turkey, Italy and Greece.
• Zamość  which was set up in a former village Skokówka was a real pride for Zamoyski.  A big city was built in an Italian Renaissance style by a famous architect Bernardo Morano from Padwa.  Zamoyski was also Jan Kochanowski’s friend. He strived tor the multiplication of the goods which belonged to Jan from Czarnolas, and due to his backing, Batory appointed the poet  the voivode governor  of Sandomierz.
  Zamoyski was also a Maecenas of outstanding poets and writers such as Kochanowski, Szymonowic, Klonowic and Heidenstein.

Chancellor and  Great Crown Hetman

Vice – Chancellor in 1576;

Chancellor of the Crown in 1578;

Great Crown Hetman in 1581.

• Zamoyski cooperated with Batory in the preparations to the Moscow War and  the accomplishement of the military reforms. He participated in all of the three campaigns against Ivan IV the Terrible,  conquering Wieliż and Zawowłocze and participating in the siege of Połock, Wielkie Łuki and Psków. He was also leading the peace talks with the Moscow delegation crowned by a peace treaty signed in Jama Zapolska . Thanks to the royal patronage he grew on a mighty magnate, an adherer of authoritarianism.
• After Batory’s death Zamoyski faught a battle with mighty Zborowski’s party and pushed zygmunt’s II waza candidature ahead.
• He beat off Archduke Maximilian’s invasion  near Cracow successfully and on 24^th 1588 near Byczyna he trashed  the army of Habsburgian elect, who got to the slavery. Zamoyski made peace with the emperor in Bytom and Będzin in1589.
• Continuing Batory’s anti-Turkish policy, Zamoyski took a trip to Danube twice and imposed the supremacy of the Republic of Poland on Danube kingdoms. He beat off the mighty Turkish-Tatar army near Cecora in 1595, and he trashed the armies of Italian hospodar – Michał Waleczny near Bukowa in 1600.
• He became the commander of a great expedition against  the Swedes in Livonia in 1601. During the second campaign he conquered Wolmar, Felin and Biały Kamień.
• He gained a great property in the service of the Polish Republic. He was the owner of 11 cities and 200 villages. His private properties covered an area of about 6445 square kilometers. Royals leased for life contained 12 cities and more than 600 villages with a land area of 11054 square kilometers.
• Zamoyski died on 3^rd June 1605.