{{Short description|Bishop of Kraków}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Jan Lutek | title = Bishop of Krakow | birth_place = Brzezia | death_date = 1471 | coat_of_arms = File:POL COA Doliwa.svg | previous_post = Bishop of Kujawy }}
'''Jan Lutek''' (died 1471) was a Polish diplomat and clergyman. He was Bishop of Kraków (1464–1471) and Vice-Chancellor to the Crown.<ref name=":0" />
Lutek was born in Brzezia. His family claimed the Doliwa crest.<ref>Orgelbrand, S. (1899). ''Encyklopedja powszechna''. Vol. 4. Poland: S. Orgelbranda Synów. p. 419 – via Google Books.</ref> Around the beginning of the Thirteen Years' War, Lutek was sent as a diplomat to the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire to discourage support for the Teutonic Knights.<ref>Biskup, M. (2005). ''The History of Polish Diplomacy X-XX C''. Poland: Sejm Publishing Office. p. 103. {{ISBN|9788370597085}}.</ref> In May 1454, he again visited the Diet to warn of the Ottoman conquest of Moldavia, which he claimed threatened Poland and Hungary.<ref>Pilat, L., Cristea, O. (2017). ''The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom During the 15th Century''. Netherlands: Brill. p. 124. {{ISBN|9789004353800}}.</ref>
In March 1466, as Bishop of Kraków, Lutek issued an indulgence that offered remission to recipients who carried out a series of prayers and other religious activities.<ref>Maniura, R. (2004). ''Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Częstochowa''. United Kingdom: Boydell Press. p. 93. {{ISBN|9781843830559}}.</ref> He died in 1471. Biographer Stanisław Karwowski mentions that Lutek had a temper but was generous to the poor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Karwowski |first=Stanisław |title=Gniezno |publisher=Druk. Dziennika Poznańskiego |year=1892 |location=Poznań |pages=309 |oclc=9811630389}}</ref>
== See also == * Polish and German relations in the Middle Ages * Archdiocese of Kraków
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