A Polish statesman and ecclesiastic who served as chancellor to the King and as primate of Poland and who made extensive collections of Polish statutes.
As royal secretary in the early 1500s Laski checked separatist tendencies in Lithuania as well as aristocratic efforts to subordinate the King.
He was appointed chancellor in 1503 but he resigned that post in 1510 after losing favour with the King for supporting the lesser gentry´s political movement.
Laski became archbishop of Gniezno and thus primate of Poland in 1510.
Because of diplomatic missions he undertook in an effort to settle Poland´s hostilities with the Teutonic Knights, Pope Leo X granted to the archbishops of Gniezno the title of legatus natus.
Later in life Laski supported the candidacy of Turkish-sponsored John (János Zápolya), king of Hungary for the Hungarian crown because Laski´s nephew was John´s agent.
This so enraged the Pope that Laski was excommunicated in 1530 the year before his death.
Laski´s extensive collections of Polish statutes are Commune incliti Regni Poloniae privilegium (1506) and Statuta provinciae Gnesnensis antiqua (1525-28).
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