Bartosz Paprocki[a] (c. 1540 or 1543 – 27 December 1614) was a Polish and Czech writer, historiographer, translator, poet, heraldist and pioneer in Polish and Bohemian-Czech genealogy (often referred to as the "father of Polish and Bohemian-Czech genealogy").[1][2]
Among his many historical works, are the famous publications "Gniazdo Cnoty, Zkąd Herby Rycerstwa slawnego Krolestwa Polskiego..." (The Nest of Virtues, whence the coat of arms of the Knights of the Polish Kingdom, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Mazovia, Samogitia, and other States to the kingdom of the dukes, and lords have their genesis) in 1578 and "Herby rycerstwa polskiego" (Armorials of the Polish knighthood) in 1584. Paprocki was active in Poland until the turn of the sixteenth to seventeenth century when for political reasons he became an émigré (political exile) in Moravia and Bohemia. He is also founder of the Polish village of Bartoszowiny in Świętokrzyskie Province.
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- ^ Matthews, John (1999). The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited. Hudson, New York: Lindisfarne Books. pp. 156–158, 177. ISBN 9780940262843.
- ^ Bogucka, Maria (2004). Women in Early Modern Polish Society, Against the European Background. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 5–6, 18, 95–97. ISBN 9780754632412.