Sielecki

Sielecki (plural: Sieleccy, feminine form: Sielecka) is a Polish surname, also of one of the noble (szlachta) families.

It is derived from the village of Sielec, of which many exist with that name in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.

The Sielecki family from Sielec, Drohobych Raion were Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine rite, as well as Roman catholic, while there are other Sieleckis who are Jewish from places such as Lithuania and Belarus, many of whom live in Argentina and South America today.

Around 1650 King John II Casimir awarded the Cossack Ataman Skrebeciowicz one half of the estate of Sielec, Drohobych Raion, as well as the right to bear the Sas coat of arms for his loyal services to the crown during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

After the Austrian partition of southern Poland in 1772, the Skrebeciowicz de Sielecki family's noble status was reaffirmed by the Habsburg emperor in Vienna who gave the hereditary title of Ritter (Knight).