Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz () ()(1570–1642) was a
noble of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a politician, a sponsor of
Baroque
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music and a writer (1610+). He held numerous political offices, including
voivode of Mścisław (1621–1626),
voivode of Trakai (1626–1640) and voivode of
Vilnius
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(1640–1642), as well as
starost of
Brasławski,
Jurbarkas, and
Nowy Dwór Gdański in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The son of Teodor Tyszkiewicz and Katarzyna Lacka, he was of the
Eastern Catholic faith, and studied abroad at
Padua
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.
Around 1595 he married Barbara Naruszewicz (1580–1627), the daughter of
Stanisław Naruszewicz. He had one daughter:
Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz. After his first wife died, in 1630 he married Zofia Zamiechowska (d. 1635).
In 1619 he donated some of his possessions in
Hrodno to the nuns of
Order of Saint Benedict.
See also
*
Skumin
*
Church and monastery of Holy Trinity
References
Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1570 births
1642 deaths
Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Janusz Skumin
Voivode of Vilnius
Voivodes of Trakai
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