Walenty Dembiński

Walenty Dembiński (died 1585)^[1] was a Polish statesman in the Kingdom of Poland within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who served as the Chancellor of Poland from 1564 to 1576. As Chancellor, Dembiński greatly contributed to the signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569.^[2]

References

^ Bem, Kazimierz. Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548–1648. Another example of a "religious politique" was the chancellor Walenty Dembiński (d. 1584), Historians, who favor a black-and-white perspective, clas- sify him as a Catholic, since he died and was buried as one.
^ Lerski, Halina. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. DEMBIŃSKI, WALENTY (?-1585), Crown Chancellor in 1564-1576, Castellan of Cracow from 1567, and a leader of the "Execution-of-the-Law" movement. Though a devout Catholic, he refused to fight Protestant dissidents and often served as an intermediary in religious disputes. He contributed to the signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569.