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John Albert Vasa (
Jan Albert Waza) (
June 25,
1612 –
December 29,
1634), was a
Polish cardinal, and
bishop of
Warmia and
Kraków. He was the son of Swedish and Polish King
Sigismund III Vasa and Austrian
archduchess Constance of Austria Habsburg.
Biography
Vasa (Swedish:
Wasa) was born in
Warsaw,
Poland.
When he was 9 years old, after the death of
Szymon Rudnicki his father chose him to be the next
Prince-Bishop of
Warmia. The pope agreed to that request on
October 21,
1621. More difficult to reach was an agreement from the Warmian
chapter, and the objections of
szlachta delayed the final approval of this nomination in the
Sejm until 1631. The prince never visited his
diocese, it was governed in his name by the
suffragan bishop Michał Działyński,
archdeacon of
Warsaw Jakub Wierzbipięta Borzuchowski and
canon of Warmia,
Paweł Piasecki. The cathedral at Frauenburg (
Frombork) was enriched by the gifts from Jan Albert that included lithurgical robes and a golden statue of
Saint Andrew.
He was educated in the
Society of Jesus.
On
20 October 1632 Vasa received the office of Prince Bishop of Cracow (after the death of
Andrzej Lipski); he performed his duties in person from 27 February of
1633.
On
20 December,
1632 his cardinal nomination was declared in public;
pope Urban VIII has signed the nomination on
October 19,
1629 but in secret (
in pectore tacite), and after revealing the information he granted Jan Albert the presbyterian title of
Sanctae Marie in Aquiro.
Jan Albert died in Italy in 1634 at
Padua, where he was likely sent by his brother, King
Wladislaw IV Waza with a diplomatic mission. The cause of his death are uncertain -
Albrycht S. Radziwill in his diary suggested that he was infected with
smallpox when he met his brother,
Aleksander Karol during their meeting before he left for Italy (Karol died this same year from smallpox).
Paweł Piasecki suggests that the cause of his death could be some illness other than smallpox.
In the office of Bishop of Warmia he was succeeded by
Mikolaj Szyszkowski in 1632. In the office of Bishop of Kraków he was succeeded by
Jakub Zadzik.
Ancestors
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