Background
Piotr Myszkowski was born about 1510 at Przeciszów into the Jastrzębiec noble family and studied at the Academy of Krakow from 1527.
Piotr Myszkowski was born about 1510 at Przeciszów into the Jastrzębiec noble family and studied at the Academy of Krakow from 1527.
He took further studies in Padua in 1535 and Rome around 1542. He was Bishop of Plock in the years 1567–1577, when he transferred to the bishopric of Cracow on 5 July 1577 year. Here he was Vice-Chancellor of the Crown and Secretary of the Crown in 1559 and the dean of Krakow Cathedral in 1560.
He was appointed a canon of Krakow and Gniezno.
And as Bishop of Krakow, convened a diocesan synod and expanded the palaces of the Bishops of Krakow in Kielce and Bodzentyn. He also supported the Jesuits and the Dominicans.
He was a royal secretary and He was a signatory of the Acting of Union of Lublin 1569. In 1575 he signed the election of the emperor Maximilian II of Habsburg.