Uwięziona ambicja. Starania Jana Szczęsnego Herburta o uwolnienie z krakowskiego więzienia po rokoszu Zebrzydowskiego

Abstract

Ambition Imprisoned: Jan Szczesny Herburt's Attempts to Be Released from Prison in Krakow Following the Zebrzydowski Rokosz The article presents the endeavors of Jan Szczęsny Herburt (1567-1616) to leave the Kraków prison where he was placed after the Battle of Guzów in 1607. These were closely connected with contemporary domestic policy, which was dominated by a conflict between the monarch Zygmunt III Wasa and the Polish-Lithuanian nobility. Herburt was one of the few rokosz leaders to be imprisoned, and the monarch’s actions indicated that he wanted to punish the insubordinate noble firebrand.