Assistant Master of the Pantry of the Crown from 1669, Court Marshal
of the Crown from 1673, Grand Marshal of the Crown from 1676 (suc-
ceeded Jan Sobieski).
Son of
Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, married to Zofia Opalińska
- daughter of Łukasz (pos.12),the Court Marshal of the Crown -
called 'the most educated Polishwoman' by her contemporaries.
Father of
Teodor Lubomirski. Thoroughly and extensively
educated. He fought with the Swedes and Hungarians (e.g. together with
his father he took part in the Torun siege in 1658). He did not join
his father's rebellion in 1664, trying to mediate in the negotiations
between the rebels and the royal court. In the Seym Tribunal in 1664
he came up with a public defense of his father, and after his father's death
he tried to rescind the infamy sentence (which he managed to do
only in the election Seym in 1669). He was a supporter of the policy
of Queen Marie-Louise and a strong advocate of the vivente rege
election. He held numerous political missions to France, Italy
and Spain. He strongly objected to the abdication of Jan Kazimierz.
From 1667 he was a frequent Seym deputy. It was due to his
authority and experience that the 1670 Seym deliberations were
completed (the previous two Seyms had been broken). In that Seym
he stood by king Michał Korybut Wi¶niowiecki against the 'malcontent'
faction. During the interregnum 1673-74 he supported his friend,
Jan Sobieski.
He was a wise and honest man, free from the conceit of his father
and grandfather. In his actions and public statements he was guided
by the interests of the Polish state. Being a versatile man
he won international renown as the author of many literary and
scientific works (he wrote verses, poems, dramas, plays,
dialogues and treatise on philosophy, history and religion) as well
as translations.
In 1699 he published 'De vanitate consiliorum' (1705), an impressive
political dialogue in which he analysed the ruin of the Commonwealth's
political life in the dawn of the reign of August II of Saxony.
A founder and benefactor of schools, a Piarist College at
Podoleniec and numerous churches. By his orders Tylman of Gameren
reconstructed the Mazovian princes' castle at Ujazdów and built
a Bernardine church and monastery at Czerniaków near Warsaw.