Dwa testamenty kasztelana chełmińskiego Andrzeja Teodora Grabowskiego
Two wills of the castellan of Chełmno, Andrzej Teodor Grabowski

Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Teodor Grabowski, the father of Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Bishop of Warmia, made two wills – the first when a terrible plague was raging in Royal Prussia in 1711 and the second in 1722 when he was 69 years old. In his will, he equitably divided his landed possessions. His estates were located on the border of Greater Poland and Royal Prussia - Pomeranian Voivodeship. The accumulated estate was fragmented into several parts by testamentary divisions, but by coincidence, his son Jan Michał again came into possession of all his father’s estates. The eldest son, becoming a senator, first bishop of Chełmno, then briefly of Kujawy and finally of Warmia, resigned from his department in favor of his younger brother, Jan Michał. Andrzej Teodor Grabowski made a monetary estimation of individual villages, so it is possible to find out from the will how noble fortunes were created and how they fell.

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