Czetwertyński Family

The House of Czetwertyński or Chetvertynsky (also ''Czetwertyński-Światopełk'' and ''Sviatopolk-Chetvertynsky'') is a Polish princely family of Ruthenian origin that was founded in modern-day Volhynia within the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, now Ukraine. The family takes its name from the village of Chetvertnia, Lutsk county, in modern-day Manevychi Raion, Volyn Oblast.

History

According to the family's legend, the progenitor of the family is the Grand Prince of Kyiv, Sviatopolk II. The first documented member of the family is Oleksander Chetvertynsky, who is mentioned in 1388. The family was accepted into the princely houses of Poland and Lithuania in 1569 and their Russian title of prince was confirmed in 1843.Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg''. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 107, 115. (French).

In 1492, Prince Fedir Mykhailovych Chetvertynsky was the Lithuanian-Ruthenian ambassador to Wallachia. Over time, the family were Polonized and Catholicized, but some members remained adherent to the Eastern Orthodox religion.

Prince Stepan Sviatopolk-Chetvertynsky (1575–1659) played a key role in re-establishing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1620. His son Mykola Sviatopolk-Chetvertynsky (?–1659) was a relative of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host, Ivan Vyhovsky.

Two of the most notable representatives of the family were Hedeon Zakharovych Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky, the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Little Russia in 1685–90, and Antoni Stanislaw's daughter Marie, who was Alexander I of Russia's mistress and had children by him. A nephew of Hedeon, Yurii Sviatopolk-Chetvertynsky (?-c. 1717–22), was a son-in-law of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host, Ivan Samoylovych.

After Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk was lynched in 1794 by Polish nationals in Warsaw during the Kościuszko Uprising, his family resettled in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Empire. It received major land grants from Catherine the Great, such as the manor of Filimonki near Moscow.

Belgian branch

By royal decree of King Albert II of Belgium, two members (both sons of Prince Michel Felix Swiatopelk-Czetwertynski) were recognised in the Belgian nobility with the rank of Prince, for them and their male-line descendants.

* Alexandre Wladimir (Alex), Prince Swiatopelk-Czetwertynski (Ukkel, 27 December 1975), married to Christine Renée Harrington
* Constantin Nicolas (Tinko), Prince Swiatopelk-Czetwertynski (Brussels, 20 February 1978), a portrait and fashion photographer known as "Tinko Czetwertynski", married to model and product designer Princess Paola Maria Sapieha-Rozanska (London, 27 April 1983), daughter of Prince Jan Pavel Sapieha-Rozanski (1950-2021), former Belgian ambassador to Brazil and Princess Cristina of Orléans-Braganza (b. 1950) Menthe, Caterina. 13 February 201
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Coat of arms

The family used the Pogoń Ruska coat of arms.

image:POL COA Czetwertyński II.svg, Smaller coat of arms of the Czetwertyński family used in the 16th century
image:POL COA Czetwertyński.svg, Pogoń Ruska

Notable members

* Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk
* Gedeon Chetvertinsky, became a first Metropolitan of Kyiv appointed by Moscow in 1685
* Seweryn Franciszek Światopełk-Czetwertyński

Palaces

image:Усадьба Четвертинских.jpg, Palace in Żołudek
image:Napoleon Orda-Palace of Chatsvyartsinsky Family, Hrodna.jpg, Czetwertyńsk Palace in Grodno
image:Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 30 20170516 001.jpg, Uruski Palace in Warsaw, inherited in 1931 from Countess Maria Uruska , youngest child of Count Seweryn Uruski, Sas coat of arms (1817–1890); the palace now forms the University of Warsaw

References

External links

Swiatopolk-Czetwertynski family website



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Belgian noble families
Roman Catholic families
Polish noble families
Lithuanian nobility
Belarusian nobility