Origins
A Line Rooted
in Mazovia
For the Strzałkowski family, whose members served for generations as administrators, treasurers, military commanders and elected judges, land stewardship was never a possession alone, but responsibility carried forward.
Jan · Castellan of Sierpc
A record of trust and office in the service of the Crown. The earliest dated trace in the Mazovian line.
Zygmunt · Vienna
In Przamowski’s armoured cavalry banner, he served with his detachment at the Battle of Vienna.
The Election Act
Among the nobles who signed the act electing Augustus II as King of Poland.
Aleksander · The Election Act
Signed the act electing Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland.
Inheritance
and service
Family records trace the historic Polish noble house of Strzałkowski, bearing the Półkozic coat of arms, to the Kingdom of Poland in the fifteenth century. The direct line reaches back to Stanisław, wojski of Zakroczym — a district military official described in the family account as commander of the local levy — and to his son Wojciech, skarbnik of Zakroczym, or keeper of the princely treasury. Both served in Mazovia, then ruled by the Polish Piast dynasty. A document dated 1548 records Jan Strzałkowski as castellan of Sierpc Castle and a senator of the Royal Sejm.
During the sixteenth century, the family held estates at Strzałkowo in Mława County, Bolewo, Konotopy and Stupsk. Members of the family served as patrons and canons of the church at Stupsk. Before hereditary Polish surnames became fully standardised, period documents often used the form de Strzałkowo, expressing the family’s connection to its land.
In 1697, Zygmunt Strzałkowski was one of 207 leading nobles of the realm who signed the act electing Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, as King of Poland. Earlier, as a porucznik in Przamowski’s armoured cavalry banner, he had served with his detachment at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
In 1733, Aleksander Strzałkowski signed the act electing Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland. At the time, he was stolnik of Zakroczym and a regimental porucznik. He later became a judge of the county court and, under King Augustus III, was appointed chorąży of Zakroczym.
Stewardship of land was a recurring responsibility within the family. Successive generations administered estates on behalf of their sovereigns, served as treasurers and leaders of local levies, held elected judicial office and, from the seventeenth century, assumed military commands. In the fifteenth century, an ancestor named Monczymir Strzałkowski served as podczaszy, or subpincerna, at the Piast court in Płock, overseeing the prince’s cellars and table. Members of the family held this office for two consecutive generations.
The values passed down through the family were honour, nobility of character and responsibility. That inherited relationship with land, agriculture and stewardship remains part of the family’s DNA — and continues to shape Evgeny Strzhalkovskiy’s philosophy as a winemaker and business owner.