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See also:TARNOWSKI, See also:JAN [called See also:MAGNUS] (1488-1561) , See also:Polish See also:general. After a careful See also:education beneath the See also:eye of an excellent See also:mother and subsequently at the See also:palace of See also:Matthew Drzewicki, See also:bishop of See also:Przemysl, he occupied a conspicuous position at See also:court in the reigns of See also:John See also:Albert, See also:Alexander and See also:Sigismund I. As See also:early as 1509 Tarnowski brilliantly distinguished himself in See also:Moldavia, and took a leading See also:part in the See also:great victories of Wisniowiec (1512) and Orsza (1514), where he commanded the See also:flower of the Polish See also:chivalry. To See also:complete his education he then travelled in See also:Palestine, See also:Syria, See also:Arabia, See also:Egypt, and See also:northern and western See also:Europe. While in See also:Portugal he received from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Emanuel the See also:chief command in the See also:war against the See also:Moors, and See also:Charles V. rewarded his services in the See also:Christian cause with the dignity of a See also:count of the See also:Empire. Indeed, the See also:emperor had such a high regard for Tarnowski that he offered him the leadership of all the forces of Europe in a See also:grand expedition against the See also:Turks. On the See also:death of See also:Nicholas Firlej in 1526 Tarnowski became grand See also:hetman of the See also:crown, or Polish See also:commander-in-chief, and in that capacity won his greatest victory at Obertyn (22nd See also:August 1531) over the Moldavians, Turks and See also:Tatars, for which he received a See also:hand-some See also:subsidy and an See also:ovation similar to that of an See also:ancient See also:Roman triumphator. Heartily attached to King Sigismund I. and his son Sigismund See also:Augustus, Tarnowski took the royal See also:side during the so-called Kokosaa wojna, or Poultry War, of 1537;
TARNOWSKI
greatly increased the mobility and the See also:security of the armed camps within which the Poles had so often to encounter the Tatars. He also improved discipline by adding to the authority of the commanders. His principles are set forth in his Consilium Rationis Bellicae (best edition, See also:Posen, 1879), which was See also:long regarded as authoritative. As an See also:administrator he did much to populate the vast See also:south-eastern See also:steppes of See also:Poland.
See Stanislaw Orzechowski, See also:Life and Death of Jan Tarnowski (Pol.) (See also:Cracow, 1855). (R. N.
End of Article: TARNOWSKI, JAN [called MAGNUS] (1488-1561)
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