Dominik Kossakowski (; 1711–1743) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, a member of the noble

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of the

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, and the founder of

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Biography

He was born into the noble

of the

, using the Korwin cognomen. His father was Jan Mikołaj Kossakowski, a

stolnik Stolnik (, , , , ) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office. It approximately corresponds to English term wikt:pantler, "pantler". S ...

of Kaunas, and his mother was Anna, née Skorulska. He was their only son and, as such, the sole heir to the estate of the Lithuanian branch of the Kossakowski family. Kossakowski began his military career by becoming a lieutenant in the Petyhorcy cavalry regiment. Politically, he aligned himself with the

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faction, which supported the election of

Stanisław Leszczyński Stanisław I Leszczyński (Stanisław Bogusław; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766), also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at various times Prince of Deux-Ponts, Duk ...

. After the coronation of Augustus III, he left the country and settled in Königsberg. Upon his return in 1735, he was appointed land judge of Kaunas, and two years later, he became the stolnik of Samogitia. He died young, at the age of 32, in

in 1743, and was buried in

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. He was regarded as a good and progressive landowner, commissioning numerous drainage works that improved and expanded the land he owned. Between his own estates and those of his wife's family, he founded a town, which he named Janów in honor of his father (today Jonava, in Lithuania). In 1732, he married Marianna Zabiełło, the daughter of Michał Zabiełło, the land judge of Kaunas, and Anna, née Białozor. Together, they had four sons: , , Józef Kazimierz and Szymon Juda Marcin, between whom the estate was divided. His only daughter, Anna, married Karol Czarniecki, the son of the castellan of Bracław, Jan Antoni.

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Dominik Dominic, Dominik or Dominick is a male given name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". The most promi ...