Janusz Kiszka (born 1600 in Krzywicze (today Belarus) – 1653) was a

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politician and

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in the 17th century

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. Last of the

Kiszka family The Kiszka family (plural Kiszkowie, ) was a noble family (szlachta) and one of the most powerful families (magnates) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Originating from Mazovia, the family used the Coat of a ...

. Royal

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, starosta of Parnawa from 1610, Voivode of Polock since 1621, Field Lithuanian

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since 1635, Great Lithuanian

since 1646.T. Wasilewski, Janusz Kiszka :Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XII, 1966-1967, s. 508-510. Raised a Calvinist, he converted with his father and brothers to Roman Catholicism in 1606. Unlike his siblings, he was quite tolerant of his former co-religionists, also because his wife was a Calvinist too. He married Krystyna Drucka-Sokolińska, and had no heirs.

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1600 births 1653 deaths 17th-century Polish nobility Polish Calvinist and Reformed Christians Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism Polish Roman Catholics Polish people of the Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)

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