Bernard Pretwicz
Hetman of Silesia · Lived 1526 to 1562 · aged 36
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Something wrong?Bernard Pretwicz was a Silesian noble of the Pretwicz family. After entering the service of the Polish King at a young age and leading a successful military career, he became a rittmaster of the obrona potoczna, and later the starosta of Bar and Ulaniv (1520-1552) and Terebovlia (1552-1561).
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The coat of arms of the family of Pretwicz and Gaffron, Polish family coat of arms Wczele or Szachownica (chessboard)
Signature of Bernard von Pretwicz as Captain on Bar in 1550: "Berhanrth prytwycz, Haupman auff baur with meyner eygen Hannth schryff"
Bernard von Pretwicz, "Terror Tartarorum", 1541 (engraving from the 19th century after the original painting)About this person
Bernard Pretwicz was a Silesian noble of the Pretwicz family. After entering the service of the Polish King at a young age and leading a successful military career, he became a rittmaster of the obrona potoczna, and later the starosta of Bar and Ulaniv (1520-1552) and Terebovlia (1552-1561). He was widely known in Poland and Ukraine for fiercely protecting the borders of the Kingdom of Poland from Crimean Tatar raids, which earned him the nicknames of Terror of the Tatars and Wall of Poland.
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