ABSTRACT
The history of the Szymanowski family dates back to the sixteenth century. Within this highly cohesive branch of the family tree, all members of the branch beginning with Maciej (d. 1772) are known as well as the links between them. He was castellan of Rawa Mazowiecka, a town of Central Poland (77 km south-west of Warsaw). The situation is similar in the case of the family of Karol’s mother, the barons von Taube. Both these genealogical sequences illustrate clearly the richness and complexity of Karol Szymanowski’s ethnogenetic background, with its German, Ruthenian, Lithuanian and Armenian connections.
