 At that time, it was the seat of a starosta, and the town enjoyed several privileges granted to it by the kings of the Jagiellon dynasty (1410, 1439, 1442, 1444, 1445, 1487, 1520).In 1470 the Jagiellonian University professor Jan of Stobnica was born here.Together with several other locations in Lesser Poland, Stopnica in the 16th century was one of the centers of the Protestant Reformation.