Brzostek gained its Magdeburg rights in 1367, but first documented mentions of the town come from 1123-1125, when a list of possessions of the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec was created.
Thus, it is not clear when the settlement was really founded; however, it was first mentioned in a written document in 1227, in the document of Pope Gregory IX issued for Benedictine abbey in Tyniec.
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Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, born Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (October 12, 1736 – August 12, 1794) was a Polish nobleman, abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk, Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków from 1773, and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1784.
In 1557, local nobleman Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan of Trąby coat of arms (the owner of Melsztyn) purchased Opatkowice from the Tyniec Abbey, and on July 17, 1557 in Vilnius, King Zygmunt August allowed Jordan to establish a Magdeburg rights town, located at the foot of the Melsztyn Castle, on the right bank of the Dunajec, in the location of the village of Opatkowice.