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Chodkiewicz Coat Of Arms
Chodkiewicz (''Gryf z Mieczem'') is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by the Chodkiewicz family in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. A variant of the Kościesza with the Gryf coat of arms and the notable longer family line as well as much bigger family than shown here. Notable bearers Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: * Chodkiewicz family * Chodko Jurewicz (c.1431–1447), founder of Chodkiewicz clan * Ivan Chodkiewicz (?–1484), founder of the Chodkiewicz family *Aleksander Chodkiewicz (1457–1549), voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship, Grand Marshal of Lithuania * Yurii Chodkiewicz (1524–1569), voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship *Hieronim Chodkiewicz (1500–1561), Grand Lithuanian Podczaszy, Elder of Samogitia, Count of the Roman Empire *Ivan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz (1537–1579), Livonian hetman, Grand Lithuanian Marshall, castellan of Vilnius. *Grzegorz Chodkiewicz (?–1572), Grand Hetman of Lithuania *Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ...
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Podczaszy
Deputy cup-bearer () was since the 13th century a court office in Poland and later in Lithuania. Deputy cup-bearer was the deputy of the cup-bearer, with the time more important than his superior. Since the 14th–16th century an honorable court title and a district office in Crown of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. * ''podczaszy wielki koronny'' – Great Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of the Crown * ''podczaszy wielki litewski'' – Great Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of Lithuania * ''podczaszy koronny'' – Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of the Crown * ''podczaszy litewski'' – Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of Lithuania * ''podczaszy ziemski'' – District Royal Deputy Cup-bearer See also *Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth This article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative aristocratic republic of the period 1569–179 ...
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Prokop Sieniawski (d
Prokop Sieniawski may refer to: * Prokop Sieniawski (d. 1596), a Polish noble *Prokop Sieniawski (d. 1627) Prokop Sieniawski (d. 9 January 1627 in Lwów) was a Polish noble. Family Prokop was son of Adam Hieronim Sieniawski and Katarzyna Kostka. His younger brother was Mikołaj. He married Anna Eufrozyna Chodkiewicz in 1623. They had two sons: A ...
(died 1626 or 1627), a Polish noble, Royal Rotmistrz from 1621 onward and Court Chorąży of the Crown after 1622 {{hndis , name=Sieniawski, Prokop ...
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Anna Eufrozyna Chodkiewicz
The House of Chodkiewicz ( be, Хадкевіч; lt, Chodkevičius) was one of the most influential noble families of Lithuanian- Ruthenian descent within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th century.Chester S. L. Dunning, Caryl Emerson, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, ''The Uncensored Boris Godunov'', Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007, SBN 0299207641Google Print, p. 498/ref> History Chodko Jurewicz, chamberlain to Grand Duke Vytenis, was probably the ancestor of the whole clan and gave it the name ''Chodkiewicz'', meaning "son of Chodzko". Surnames were not used in that time, but apparently later in history, the name ''Chodzko'' became a surname after Christianization of Chodzko Juriewicz, father of Iwan (later Jan) Chodkiewicz. They bore the Chodkiewicz coat of arms. In 1572, Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz converted from Calvinism to Roman Catholicism with his two sons, which made them the first Polonized generation of the once Lithuanian-Ruthenian family. Emp ...
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Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz
Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz (1616–1660) () was a Polonized Lithuanian nobleman ( szlachcic). Jan Kazimierz was Master of the Stables of Lithuania from 20 July 1633 and castellan of Vilnius from 13 April 1646. He married Zofia Pac on 31 August 1636 in Vilnius. He died in 1660 and was buried in Brzostownica Wielka, Lithuania. See also * Lithuanian nobility 1616 births 1660 deaths Jan Kazimierz John II Casimir ( pl, Jan II Kazimierz Waza; lt, Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 until his abdication in 1668 as well as titular King of Sweden from 1648 ... 17th-century Polish nobility {{Lithuania-noble-stub ...
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Vilnius Voivodship
pl, Województwo wileńskie , conventional_long_name = Vilnius Voivodeship , common_name = Vilnius , subdivision = Voivodeship , nation = Grand Duchy of Lithuania (part of the federative Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569) , year_start = 1413 , event_start = Union of Horodło , date_start = , event_end = Third partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , date_end = , year_end = 1795 , event1 = , event1_date = , p1 = Duchy of Lіthuania , flag_p1 = COA_of_Gediminaičiai_dynasty_Lithuania.svg , border_p1 = no , s1 = Vilna Governorate , flag_s1 = Coat of arms of Vilna Governorate 1878.svg , border_s1 = no , image_flag = Banner of Vilnius Voivodeship (1609-1618)-1.svg , flag_border=no , image_coat ...
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Castellan
A castellan is the title used in Medieval Europe for an appointed official, a governor of a castle and its surrounding territory referred to as the castellany. The title of ''governor'' is retained in the English prison system, as a remnant of the medieval idea of the castellan as head of the local prison. The word stems from the Latin ''Castellanus'', derived from ''castellum'' "castle". Sometimes also known as a ''constable'' of the castle district, the Constable of the Tower of London is, in fact, a form of castellan, with representative powers in the local or national assembly. A castellan was almost always male, but could occasionally be female, as when, in 1194, Beatrice of Bourbourg inherited her father's castellany of Bourbourg upon the death of her brother, Roger. Similarly, Agnes became the castellan of Harlech Castle upon the death of her husband John de Bonvillars in 1287. Initial functions After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, foreign tribes migrated int ...
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Krzysztof Chodkiewicz
Krzysztof Chodkiewicz or Katkevičius (died 1652) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman ( szlachcic). History Chodkiewicz held the title of Great Standard Bearer of Lithuania ( lt, Vėliavininkas). In 1610, he was named Master of the Horse of Lithuania. In 1623, Castellan of Trakai, and in 1633, Castellan of Vilnius, in 1636, Voivode of Vilnius Voivodeship. Finally in 1642, he became Starost (Grodzki) of Babruysk, Kreva and held the deeds to Biala and Wiszniewo. During the Polish–Swedish War, he participated in the siege of Pärnu, which started on February 28, 1601, under the command of his cousin, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. He also took part in the Polish–Muscovite War, as a pułkownik (colonel) of the Lisowczyk regiment until March 28, 1617. In 1616, a regiment under his command captured and burned Kursk and several smaller cities. He was also a participant in the Battle of Bołchow. See also * Chodkiewicz family *Lithuanian nobility The Lithuanian nobility or ...
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ( lt, Jonas Karolis Chodkevičius, be, Ян Караль Хадкевіч ; 1561 – 24 September 1621) was a military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent noblemen and military commanders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of his era. His coat of arms was Chodkiewicz, as was his family name. He played a major role, often as the top commander of the military of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the Wallachian campaign of 1599–1601, the Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11, the Polish–Muscovite War of 1605–18, and the Polish–Ottoman War of 1620–1621. His most famous victory was the Battle of Kircholm in 1605, in which he dealt a major defeat to a Swedish army three times the size of his own. He died on the front lines during the battle of Khotyn, in the besieged Khotyn Fortress, a few days before the Otto ...
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Hetmans Of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
( uk, гетьман, translit=het'man) is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders. Used by the Czechs in Bohemia since the 15th century. It was the title of the second-highest military commander in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to 18th centuries. Throughout much of the history of Romania and the Moldavia, hetmans were the second-highest army rank. In the modern Czech Republic the title is used for regional governors. Etymology The term ''hetman'' was a Polish borrowing, probably from the German – captain or a borrowing of the comparable Turkic title ''ataman'' (literally 'father of horsemen'). Hetmans of Poland and Lithuania The Polish title ''Grand Crown Hetman'' ( pl, hetman wielki koronny) dates from 1505. The title of ''Hetman'' was given to the leader of the Polish Army. Until 1581 the hetman position existed only during specific campaigns and wars. After that ...
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Grzegorz Chodkiewicz
Hrehory Chodkiewicz ( lt, Grigorijus Chodkevičius, uk, Григорій Олександрович Ходкевич, translit=Hryhorii Oleksandrovych Khodkevych; – 9 November 1572) was a Ruthenian noble and military officer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was a son of Aleksander, brother of Hieronim and Yurii, and uncle of Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz. He commanded the Lithuanian army during the later part of the Livonian War after he had become the Great Lithuanian Hetman in 1566. Early career Chodkiewicz was long held to have been born around 1505. However, Lithuania historian Genutė Kirkienė noted that in such a case Chodkiewicz began his political career in his mid-forties, when most nobles started in late twenties or early thirties. Kirkienė suggested that his father's marriage and birth of children should be moved from 1500s to mid-1510s. As a young boy Chodkiewicz was sent to the court of Albert, Duke of Prussia. He returned in 1532 with personal rec ...
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Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 718,507 (as of 2020), while according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, there were 753,875 permanent inhabitants as of November 2022 in Vilnius city and Vilnius district municipalities combined. Vilnius is situated in southeastern Lithuania and is the second-largest city in the Baltic states, but according to the Bank of Latvia is expected to become the largest before 2025. It is the seat of Lithuania's national government and the Vilnius District Municipality. Vilnius is known for the architecture in its Old Town, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The city was noted for its multicultural population already in the time of the Polish–Lithuanian ...
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