Ostroróg family
noble family
The House of Ostroróg was the name of an old Polish noble family taking their name from Ostroróg, a town in Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. They used the Nałęcz coat of arms. Members of the family held important civic posts in the Wielkpolska region in the Kingdom of Poland, particularly that of voivode. At the end of the 19th-century, family members settled in France, England and for a time, in Turkey.
Coat of arms
Notable members
Sędziwój Ostroróg (1375–1441), voivode of Poznań Voivodeship
Dobrogost Ostroróg (1400-1478/79), castellan of Gniezno
Stanisław Ostroróg (1400–1477), voivode of Kalisz Voivodeship
Jan Ostroróg (1436–1501), voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, political thinker
Wacław Ostroróg (?-1527), castellan of Kalisz
Jakub Ostroróg (1516-1568), magnate and politician from Poznań
Jan Ostroróg (1561–1622), voivode of Poznań Voivodeship
Mikołaj Ostroróg (1593–1651), marshal of the Sejm
Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1834–1890), Crimean War veteran, photographer under pseudonym, Walery
Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg (1863-1929), Art photographer, under pseudonym Walery and combinations thereof
Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867-1932), jurist, writer translator.
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