Prince Wladysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski (ca. 1616 – 1656) was a Polish nobleman (

szlachcic The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...

) of

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n stock.

Prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

of the Princely Houses of Poland, Ostroh

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, Grand Koniuszy of The Crown. Zasławski was the most powerful

magnate The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

Volhynia Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...

at that time. He was voivode of

Sandomierz Voivodeship Sandomierz Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo Sandomierskie, la, Palatinatus Sandomirensis) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland ...

from 1645 and voivode of Kraków Voivodeship from 1649. Starosta of

Lutsk Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lu ...

1639–1653, regimentarz of the

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1648, second richest, after Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish

. Thanks to

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Jerzy Ossoliński Prince Jerzy Ossoliński h. Topór (15 December 1595 – 9 August 1650) was a Polish nobleman (''szlachcic''), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor ('' voivode'') of Sandomierz from 1636, '' Reichsfürst'' (Imperial Prince) since 1634, Cr ...

elected on

Convocation Sejm Royal elections in Poland (Polish: ''wolna elekcja'', lit. ''free election'') were the elections of individual kings, rather than dynasties, to the Polish throne. Based on traditions dating to the very beginning of the Polish statehood, strengthe ...

as one of three regimentarz of the ''

pospolite ruszenie ''Pospolite ruszenie'' (, lit. ''mass mobilization''; "Noble Host", lat, motio belli, the French term '' levée en masse'' is also used) is a name for the mobilisation of armed forces during the period of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–L ...

'' during the Battle of Pyliavtsi in 1648. Because of his incompetence as a main ''regimentarz'' the battle were lost. In 1651 he participated in the Battle of Beresteczko. During the Swedish invasion ("

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") was loyal to the king John Casimir Vasa, he prepared the defence of

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...

. Since the third decade of 17th century his barony was Stare Selo near

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. There he started to build fortress in 1642, which was destroyed during the siege of Lviv in 1648 by the

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uprisers of

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

. Castle was rebuilt in years 1649–1654, inside the fortress was built a palace.

Marriage and issue

Władysław Dominik married Zofia Prudencja Ligęza h. Półkozic in 1634 and

Katarzyna Sobieska Katarzyna Sobieska (1634–1694) was the sister of King John III Sobieski of Poland and a noblewoman. She married Władysław Dominik Zasławski in 1650. She was later married to Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł Prince Michał Kazimier ...

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, daughter of

Jakub Sobieski Jakub Sobieski (5 May 1590 – 23 June 1646) was a Polish noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist, military leader and father of King John III Sobieski. He was the son of castellan and voivode Marek Sobieski and Jadwiga Snopko ...

voivode of the

Ruthenian Voivodeship The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Latin: ''Palatinatus russiae'', Polish: ''Województwo ruskie'', Ukrainian: ''Руське воєводство'', romanized: ''Ruske voievodstvo''), also called Rus’ voivodeship, was a voivodeship of the Crown of ...

and sister of King

Jan III Sobieski John III Sobieski ( pl, Jan III Sobieski; lt, Jonas III Sobieskis; la, Ioannes III Sobiscius; 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. Born into Polish nobility, Sobie ...

, in 1650 and had two children: * Aleksander Janusz Zasławski (1650-1682), unmarried * Teofila Ludwika Zasławska (1654-1709), married Prince Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki and later Józef Karol Lubomirski

Ancestry

References

Bibliography

* Jan Widacki, Kniaź Jarema, Katowice 1984, * Witold Biernacki, Żółte Wody – Korsuń, Warszawa 2004,

External links

Portrait of Wadyslaw Dominick Zaslawski Ostrogski
at the Wilanów Palace Museum 1610s births 1656 deaths Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth People from Sandomierz Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Wladyslaw Dominik Polish military personnel of the Khmelnytsky Uprising {{Poland-noble-stub