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Doubts about Małachowskis origin ( Kajetan Małachowski):
The early lords of Małachowo are considered, by some scholars, to be a branch of a well-known medieval Polish chivalric clan of the Gryf-Świeboda. But it may be due only to heraldic reasoning - a griffin in the arms of our family and in the arms of the mighty Gryf-Świeboda. Yet no established genealogical line from the Świeboda-Gryf to the lords of Małachowo in the male-line is known and I can easily imagine the lords of Małachowo were classified together with the Gryf-Świeboda for heraldic reasons only and in fact are a separate family which just happened to have a griffin in their arms too. The Gryf-Świeboda (relatives of Duke Jaksa of Brandenburg and what is now Berlin, who lost it in a military campaign to the Germans) are a mighty clan settled mainly in South-Eastern Poland - Lesserpoland, while we are just a minor knightly family in a quite different part of Poland - Greaterpoland.
We may as well be some minor local stock or immigrants from wherever - Pomerania, Silesia, Lusatia, etc. Pomerania would make sense on two accounts - the griffin and the name "Sambor" which appears among both the Dukes of Pomerania and among the early lords of Małachowo (Sambor de Malachowo, Chatelain of Zbąszyn, near Western Pomeranian border).
No, I am not saying the early Małachowski are a branch of the Dukes of Pomerania. Not at all. But they may easily be immigrants from there as the political and actually personal links between the two regions (Pomerania and Greaterpoland) were quite intense in the period.