Szukając przodków. Poszukiwanie rodowodu przez podkomorzego żmudzkiego Jakuba Ignacego Nagórskiego w II połowie XVIII wieku
Searching for ancestors: The search for the genesis of his family by the chamberlain of Samogitia Jakub Ignacy Nagórski in the second half of the eighteenth century

Summary/Abstract: The article gives an analysis of the search for the genesis of a family settled at the end of the sixteenth century in Samogitia, undertaken in the second half of the eighteenth century by the chamberlain (podkomorzy) of Samogitia Jakub Ignacy Nagórski (d. 1799). First, the armorial by Kasper Niesiecki, edited not long before, has been examined. Later, a chronicle of a family of the same name has been found, a family bearing the coat of arms Leszczyc, based in Poland, in the Łęczyca district. This chronicle, written down between the mid-seventeenth and early eighteenth century, became an incentive for the Nagórski family from Samogitia, bearing the Pobóg coat of arms, to create a similar chronicle of their own. Finally, it could be established that the Nagórski family came to Samogitia from Poland, from the Łęczyca district; although a real genealogical connection with the Polish counterpart could not be made. The ancestor was to become Jakub, living in the sixteenth century in Poland, father of Marcin, the first family member who arrived in Samogitia. This ‘combined’ lineage was convenient for Jakub Ignacy Nagórski, the initiator of the search, who – thanks to his status and his choice of ancestor – ‘immortalised’ the name of Jakub in the family’s genealogical consciousness.

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