Marek Wagner
Prace Historyczne, Numer 143 (2), 2016, s. 327 - 334
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.16.012.5061Baltazar Wilga Godzimirski – the Last Cossack Commissioner of the Commonwealth (1692–1699)
The article discusses the career and military achievements of the Commonwealth’s last Cossack commissioner, a distinguished officer of the Crown army in the reign of Jan III Sobieski. In the 1670s Baltazar Wilga served as a towarzysz (knight bachelor) of the cavalry, and in the years 1683–1708 he was a rotmistrz (captain), colonel and regimentary. From 1692 to 1699 he was the last royal commissioner to supervise the Cossack communities in the Kyivan Polesie. He died in 1708, leaving three sons born to his marriage with Katarzyna Łaskówna – officials and gentry men active in the first half of the 18th century.
Marek Wagner
Prace Historyczne, Numer 146 (2), 2019, s. 461 - 479
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.19.024.9920Prospects of military history research of the times of John III Sobieski
The article reviews the current status and prospects of the research in the field of the Polish military affairs and warfare in the times of John III. An analysis of the present literature leads to a conclusion that the most important needs in the field include the development of a synthesis of the Polish-Turkish war of 1684–1699, a history of the Polish cavalry and artillery corps in the second half of the 17th century and, above all, a full scholarly account of the generalship of John III Sobieski.