* A Closer Look at Jan van Eyck's Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin ( Louvre museum )

The election was held in the shadow of conflict between the Polish nobility ( szlachta ), with the two opposing sides gathered around Chancellor Jan Zamoyski and the Zborowski family.

File: Jan van Eyck 070. jpg | Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Jan van Eyck, Burgundy, c. 1435

Zamość was founded in 1580 by the Chancellor and Hetman ( head of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ) Jan Zamoyski, on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea.

The Zamojski Academy ( 1594 – 1784 ) was an academy founded in 1594 by Polish Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski.

* Szymon Szymonowic ( 1558 – 1629 )-was a Polish humanist, poet associated with Grand Hetman and Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, with whom in 1593 – 1605 he organized the Zamojski Academy.

Chodkiewicz's first claim to fame were his victories in 1600 during the Moldavian Magnate Wars, where he defeated Turks and their allies, serving under the command of the Polish Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski.

The setting is derived from the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin by Jan van Eyck

The first Chancellor of the new university was Prince Arthur of Connaught and the first Principal ( a position that would be merged with that of Vice-Chancellor in 1948 ) was Professor Jan Hofmeyr Hofmeyr set the tone of the University's subsequent opposition to apartheid when, during his inaugural address as Principal he declared, while discussing the nature of a university and its desired function in a democracy, that universities " should know no distinctions of class, wealth, race or creed ".

* Jan of Czarnków-Polish 14th century chronicler and Deputy Chancellor of the Crown

The subtle layers of meaning uncovered by modern iconographical research in works of Robert Campin such as the Mérode Altarpiece, and of Jan van Eyck such as the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and the Washington Annunciation lie in small details of what are on first viewing very conventional representations.

* Jan Taszka z Koniecpola, (?- 1455 ) Grand Chancellor of the Crown

The Mérode Altarpiece ( 1420s ) of Robert Campin, and the Washington Van Eyck Annunciation or Madonna of Chancellor Rolin ( both 1430s, by Jan van Eyck ) are examples.

His uncle, also Jan Łaski, was by turns royal secretary, Archbishop of Gniezno, Primate of Poland and Grand Chancellor of the Crown ; he was also the uncle of King Sigismund I the Old.

The Zamojski Academy (; ) 1594 – 1784 ) was an academy founded in 1594 by Polish Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski.

It was founded in 1594 by Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski in Zamość ( a city, also founded by Zamoyski ) with the assistance of poet Szymon Szymonowic, aka Simon Simonides ( who would be one of the Academy's lecturers ).

The medieval version of Pobóg coat of arms from seal of Kanclerz | Grand Chancellor of the Crown Jan of Koniecpol in 1435.

On the initiative of southern-Polish nobles, supported by the future Great Crown Chancellor and hetman Jan Zamoyski, the election would be by all male szlachta ( nobles ) who assembled for the purpose.

Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński was the son of Hieronim Ossoliński, and the father of Jerzy Ossoliński, who was to become Kanclerz ( Chancellor ) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Many of them were prominent Polish figures, including luminaries such as Ignacy Krasicki, Franciszek Bohomolec, Adam Naruszewicz, Ignacy Potocki, Hugo Kołłątaj, Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki, Stanisław Konarski, Tomasz Adam Ostrowski and Chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski.

He was married in 1706 to Katarzyna Miączyńska and in 1732 in Lwów, married Katarzyna Jabłonowska, the daughter of Grand Chancellor Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski.

Chancellor Jan Zamoyski.

* Jan Stanisław Sapieha ( 1589 – 1635 ), Chancellor of Lithuania, 1621 – 1635

On returning to Poland in 1781, he accept a position as tutor in the house of Grand Crown Chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski.

Jeremi himself married Gryzelda Zamoyska, daughter of Chancellor Tomasz Zamoyski, in 1639.

Jan Zamoyski ( 1542-1605 ), Chancellor and friend of King Stefan Batory

The famous quote by Jan Zamoyski, the Lord Chancellor of the Crown, on the importance of education, is a great example of its use:

Petro ’ s teachers were monks from the Lviv brotherhood and later, he continued his studies of classical literature in Latin, Greek, Polish, and Ukrainian languages at the academy in Zamość ( the Zamojski Academy ), founded in 1594 by Polish Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski.

* Jan Zamoyski ( 1542 – 1605 ), Great Crown Chancellor and Great Crown Hetman

* Tomasz Zamoyski ( 1594 – 1638 ), Deputy Chancellor of the Crown

* Andrzej Zamoyski ( 1716 – 1792 ), Great Crown Chancellor, humanist and reformer

Enemy of Jan Zamoyski, Grand Chancellor of the Crown in 1606 he became one of the leaders of the rokosz of Zebrzydowski.

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The Council of State is made up of the prime minister and the ministers for the various departments of the central government as well as an ex-officio member, the Chancellor of Justice.

The Council of State is made up of the prime minister and ministers for the various departments of the central government as well as an ex-officio member, the Chancellor of Justice.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel — who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part — also attended the commemoration.

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