Atlas of Battles

commander, 7 engagements

Battles of Jan Zamoyski

Battles of Jan Zamoyski

Polish magnate, statesman and military commander (1542–1605)

Jan Zamoyski is recorded as a commander at 7 placed engagements in the atlas between 1581 and 1602: 2 battles and 5 sieges across 5 present-day countries, most in Poland (2), Estonia (2), Russia (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 3,423 km apart end to end, 570 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11 (3), War of the Polish Succession (2), Livonian War (1).

Siege of KrakówSiege of WeissensteinSiege of PskovBattle of ByczynaBattle of CecoraSiege of WolmarSiege of FellinSiege of PskovBattle of ByczynaBattle of CecoraSiege of WolmarSiege of FellinBerlinKyivViennaStockholmSt. PetersburgFrankfurtHamburgWarsawBudapestMunich500 km52.956N, 23.549E
7 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1581: 1 engagements1587: 1 engagements1588: 1 engagements1595: 1 engagements1601: 1 engagements1602: 2 engagements2 in 160215811602
7 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Pskov, 1581Siege of Kraków, 1587Battle of Byczyna, 1588Battle of Cecora, 1595Siege of Wolmar, 1601Siege of Fellin, 1602Siege of Weissenstein, 160215811602
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
18 August 1581Siege of PskovPskov, RussiaSee #Result; (Peace of Yam-Zapolsky)
1587Siege of KrakówKraków, Poland1,021 km SWPolish-Lithuanian victory
24 January 1588Battle of ByczynaByczyna, Poland166 km NWPolish–Lithuanian victory
1595Battle of CecoraMoldova893 km SEPolish-Lithuanian victory; Peace and the withdrawal of the...
18 October 1601Siege of WolmarValmiera, Latvia1,191 km NPolish-Lithuanian victory
25 March 1602Siege of FellinViljandi, Estonia93 km NPolish-Lithuanian victory
31 May 1602Siege of WeissensteinPaide, Estonia58 km NPolish-Lithuanian victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Jan Szwankowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.