Background
January Łaski was born in Łask, the son of Jaroslaw Łaski, the voivode of Sieradz Voivodship, and Susanna Bąk, the daughter of Zbigniew Bąk of Bąkowa Góra.
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January Laski
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Owing to his influential work in England (c 1543-1555) during the English Reformation, he is known to the English-speaking world by the Anglicised forms John a Lasco or John Laski. Both January Łaskis" coat-of-arms was Korab. Shortly after, he went to England, where in 1550 he was superintendent of the Strangers" Church of London and had some influence on ecclesiastical affairs in the reign of Edward VI. On the accession of Roman Catholic Queen Mary in July 1553, he fled to Copenhagen with a shipload of refugees from the Strangers" Church.
However they were denied refuge there because they would not accept the Augsburg Confession of Faith.
They were resettled in Brandenburg. His support enabled them to obtain an appointment from Sigismund II as administrators of Lithuania.
Łaski was a correspondent of John Hooper, whom Łaski supported in the vestments controversy. In 1556, he was recalled to Poland, where he became secretary to King Sigismund II and was a leader in the Calvinist Reformation.
He died in Pinczów, Poland.
He is one of the figures on the Prussian Homage painting by January Matejko.
Membership
Dutch Church, Austin Friars.
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Poland -
Religion
Protestant Evangelical