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Prince Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski (1616-1667) was a Polish noble (szlachcic), magnate, outstanding politician and military commander. Initiator of the Lubomirski Rokosz.
Son of voivode and starost Stanisław Lubomirski and Princess Zofia Ostrogska. He was married to Konstancja Ligęza since 1641 and Barbara Tarło since 1654.
He was starost of Kraków since 1647, Court Marshall of the Crown in the same year Grand Marshal of the Crown since 1650, Field Crown Hetman since 1658, starost of Nowy Sącz and Spisz.
Sejm Marshal of the ordinary Sejm on February 1-March 29, 1643 in Warsaw.
Lubomirski become famous as an excellent commander during wars with Cossacks, Sweden, Hungary and Russia in 1648-1660. Inter alia he crushes invading troops of Rákóczi György I and marched in Transylvania. He also forced, together with Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki, Russian troops to surrender at Cudnow in 1660.
Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski He was a staunch defender of the "Golden freedoms" and the leader of the oposition to King Jan II Kazimierz, who tried to increase his power.
The King accuseed him as traitor of the state and with an adjudication of guilt adopted by the Sejm, he lost all his offices and was sended into banishment in 1664.
However, in 1655 he started the "Lubomirski Rokosz" and countermined system reforms of the Republic.
By his influence two sessions of the Sejm in 1655 (by deputies Piotr Telefus and Władysław Łoś) and 1656 (by deputies Kasper Miaskowski and Teodor Łukomski) were broken.
Ahead regular units and the pospolite ruszenie, he defeated troops of the King at Częstochowa in 1665 and royal troops leds by the future King Jan Sobieski, at Mątwam in 1666.
The Agreement of Łęgonice, gived him back his dignity and annulled the earlier adjudication of the Sejm, the king was forced to give up his reform plans and the introduction of "vivente rege elections" and resulted indirect in abdication of the monarch in 1668.
Lubomirski was one of the outstanding magnates of the 17th century. Frequent deputy for the Sejm, excellent orator, military commander and politician, with great private ambitions.
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