The history of Dobrzyjałowo

The main goal of this article is to reconstruct the history of Dobrzyjałowo village on the basis of wider range of historical sources than the previous studies on the same subject. Described village is located 16 km from Łomża and was founded in 1409 by Stanisław Łomżyca. From 1459, it belonged to Jan of Chojnów, whose heirs adopted the surname Dobrzyjałowski. Before 1575, Andrzej Tarnowski became the owner of the part of Dobrzyjałowo. In the second half of 17th century, the property was divided between two families – Dobrzyjałowski and Brodowski. From the mid-18th century Rakowski and Wierzbicki families gained possession of the described land. In the beginning of 19th century, Rakowski family merged two parts of Dobrzyjałowo into one property. As the result of the arrangement between the family members, from 1821, Dobrzyjałowo belonged to Maria Rakowska, daughter of Jakub Rakowski and wife of Stanisław Kotowski. Kotowski family owned Dobrzyjałowo until 1861. After the death of Kajetan, Maria and Stanisław’s son, the property was sold to Marianna Krynicka. The next owner was Jan Rogowski. Before 1892, Dobrzyjałowo was bought by the Jewish entrepreneur Salomon Blanksztejn. In 1911 or 1912, Michał Władysław Bronikowski came into possession of the property. A decade later it was bought by Wincenty Mikułowski, and his son Mieczysław was the last owner of Dobrzyjałowo before it was requisited by the Treasury in 1945.