 Jan Zamoyski was born on 19 March 1542 to Stanisław Zamoyski and Anna Herburt in Skokówka . He started his education in a school in Krasnystaw but when he was thirteen years old he was sent to study abroad ; from 1555 to 1559 he was a paige at the royal court in Paris . Already at this young age he attended lectures at the Sorbonne University and Collège de France . In 1559 he briefly visited Poland , then attended the University of Strasbourg ; after a few months there he moved to University of Padua , where from 1561 he studied law and received a doctorate in 1564 . During his years abroad he converted from Calvinism to Roman Catholicism . 
