Did Danish spotted horses originat with the visit of Polish allied forces in 1657 when the Stefan Czarnieckis division came to Denmark then under the assault by the Swedish armies. Jan Chrysostom Pasek, companion cavalryman in Czarnieckis Division, described with great detail his Denmark experience in his Memories. By the way, famous Marechal Raimondo Montecuccoli, commander of Imperial forces in the northern theater of war, was also there, as he campaigned with Polish forces in Poland and later in Denmark, and he learned a bit about Polish lancers, especially the winged hussars,as there were 3 winged hussar banner there. After bulk of the division left about a 1000 cavalrymen (10 plus banners) stayed in Denmark under the command of rotmistrz Kazimierz Piaseczyński, who died bravely leading the victorious cavalry charge at the battle of Nyborg. There must have been at least 15,000 to 30,000 Polish horses that came to Denmark in the Lords year of 1659. Our ancestors favored spotted horses as well as unusual colors in horses, plus they had large percentage of Turkish, Tatar and Hungarian horses. Since Polish soldiers rode mostly stallions and geldings (but baggage train had also mares and colts and fillies), thus these Polish horses must have bred with Danish mares on large scale and quite freely, especially since. Foaling seasons of 1660 and 1661 must have brought many interesting horses in the Danish horse herds. Painting by Jozef Brant showing Stefan Czarniecki on his spotted horse..-Brandt_Czarniecki_na_tarancie dariocaballeros.blogspot/2013/01/bent-branderup-master-of-academic.html https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=359935474137122&set=oa.10151519397565913&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-frc3%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F1006357_359935474137122_1275297202_n.jpg%3Foh%3D65c014ff73097ecfab9c4f63b0fcafc9%26oe%3D5461F01D&size=478%2C600
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:59:07 +0000