Ennoblement of the Odrowąż family from Liber Genesos illustris Familiae ShidlovicaeIwo Odrowąż, Bishop of KrakówSaint HyacinthJan Odrowąż from Sprowa, Archbishop of Poland and Lithuania.
Odrowąż (plural: Odrowążowie or Odrowąże) was an important family of
knights in the medieval
Kingdom of Poland, strongly allied with the
Catholic church in the 12th century.[1]
History
Their family seats were in
Upper Silesia and in
Lesser Poland, and after the 13th-century invasion by the
Teutonic Order, they moved to
Silesia just within Lesser Poland. The progenitor of the family was Prandota Stary, who came to
Poland in the 12th century from
Moravia (or possibly
Bohemia).