Mordy

Mordy is a town in Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,831 inhabitants (2004).

==History== thumb|left|Mordy Palace in 1932 In the early 15th century, Mordy was a possession of Koszycki family. In 1408 Jan Koszycki founded a parish church in Mordy. Mordy was granted town rights in 1488. It was a private town of the Korczewski family and then the Hlebowicz family. In 1528, Mordy was purchased by Polish King Sigismund I the Old. In 1552, King Sigismund I sold it to Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Black, who then removed the local Catholic parish priest and replaced him with a Calvinist preacher. In 1563, a synod of the Polish Brethren was held in Mordy, and then the Calvinist preacher was replaced by a preacher of the Polish Brethren. In 1571, Mordy passed to Paweł Ciecierski and the church reverted to the Catholics. Afterwards Mordy remained a private town of the Ciecierski family of Rawicz coat of arms, administratively located in the Drohiczyn County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.