Wieś Siedlce w ziemi łukowskiej
The village of Siedlce in Łuków Province

Summary/Abstract: The sources regarding Siedlce before it was granted the town charter are few. The town was situated at the northern edge of the Łuków district, which was a part of the Kingdom of Poland. It has been a settlement since the ninth century. The first homes were founded on the grounds of the palace and the town hospital. The first mention of Siedlce in the written records comes from 1441, when Wojciech from Michów, who came from the Rawicz family, exchanged his property with that of his relative, Elżbieta, the wife of Jan from Oleksów. He gave her half of Siedlce, half of Golice, Wola Siedlecka and Wola Golicka in the Łuków district and received half of Rudno and half of Składów in the Lublin district in return. Elżbieta was in all probability the grandmother of Daniel Gniewosz Siedlecki, the Siedlce owner at the end of 15th and the beginning of 16th century. In the early 16th century, Daniel Gniewosz's goods - and subsequently his son's, Stanisław Gniewosz, goods - flourished. They owned between ten and twenty other villages and ironworks by the Muchawka and Liwiec rivers in addition to Siedlce. In 1532, a parish was established and the Blessed Virgin Mary and Stanislaus of Szczepanów, the bishop and martyr, church was erected. Another success of Stanisław Siedlecki was the granting of the town charter by Sigismund I the Old in 1547. The town was established a little further west from the village and named Nowa Siedlcza.

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