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Moshe Stefan Fiszel (Powidzki) - Family tree

Moshe Stefan Fiszel (Powidzki)

Moshe Stefan  Fiszel (Powidzki)
  • Comments: served as a creditor to kings Jan Olbracht and Aleksander even before his conversion to Christianity. In 1494, he represented the interests of the Jewish community in their disputes with non-Jewish residents of Kraków, and in that same year he was arrested with other Kraków Jews. He served as collector of Jewish taxes in Great Poland (1499, 1503) and as director of the salt storehouse in Poznań (1504). In 1499, when the Jews of Gniezno accused him of excessive tax collection, he received the support of the archbishop of Gniezno, Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellończyk. After converting to Catholicism (between 1503 and 1504); Stefan was ennobled by Zygmunt the Old, receiving the Koran coat of arms. His sons Jan and Stanisław also converted to Catholicism; their godmother was Elizabeth, the widow of King Casimir the Jagiellonian. Stefan divorced his wife, who chose to remain Jewish. In 1510, with the king’s permission, he purchased the village of Powidz, from which he took his new surname, Powidzki.

Moshe Stefan Fiszel (Powidzki)

( - before 1489, Lublin)


(Prague - Lublin)


( - 1532, Krakow)


(about 1530 - 1616, Lublin)


(1558, Lublin - 1616, Lublin)


(about 1592, Lublin - )


(about 1590, Lublin - )


(about 1595, Lublin - )


(about 1585 - 1651)


(about 1615 - )


(1610 - before 1688)


(about 1638 - )


(about 1655 - 1718)


(about 1672 - )


(1480, Lublin - 1541, Lublin)


(about 1470, Poland - 1541, Lublin)


( - Opatov)


( - August 27, 1589, Belzhice)


(Opatov - September 15, 1623, Wien)


( - September 28, 1639, Prague)


( - January 30, 1659)


( - July 22, 1655)


( - April 7, 1643, Prague)


( - Lyuboml)


( - May 15, 1595, Krakow)


(1520, Lublin - 1598)


(about 1535, Lublin - )


(1530, Alsace - January 6, 1587, Lublin)


(about 1550, Bratislava - July 9, 1632, Lviv)


(about 1590 - Lviv)


(about 1610 - about 1640)


(about 1560 - February 1, 1632, Belz)


( - 1634)


(about 1563 - September 22, 1633, Lublin)


(about 1607 - )


(about 1612 - 1650, Krakow)


(about 1597 - )


(1635, Krakow - )


(about 1620 - )


(1589, Brest - )


(about 1615 - about 1655)


(about 1615 - )


( - 1715, Brody)


(1568 - )


(about 1570 - January 29, 1628, Krakow)


( - January 29, 1628)


(1575 - )


(1495, Lublin - 1559)


(1520, Lublin - 1598)

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