Ludwika Maria Róża Rzewuska
(1744–1816) was a Polish
Szlachta
The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the nobility, noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social ...
and writer.
She was the youngest daughter of
Wacław Rzewuski
Wacław Piotr Rzewuski (1706–1779) was a Polish dramatist and poet as well as a military commander and a Grand Crown Hetman. As a notable nobleman and magnate, Rzewuski held a number of important posts in the administration of the Polish–Lit ...
and
Anna Lubomirska.
[ On 1 January 1766, she married ]Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz
Count Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz ( Lithuanian: Jonas Mikalojus Ksaveras Chodkevičius; 14 December 1738, Gdańsk - 2 February 1781, Chernobyl) was the Starost of Samogitia and Veliuona; Count of Shklow and .
Biography
His father, , was the Voivode o ...
in Podhorce (Pidhirtsi
Pidhirtsi (; ) is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, located about 80 km east of Lviv, 17 km south of Brody, 60 km north west of Ternopil. It belongs to Zabol ...
).
She wrote instructions concerning the care, education and safety of her children, which are important sources. These instructions were discussed in academic literature.
In 1806 she bought Jampol from Dominik Zasławski.[L. Podhorodecki: Dzieje rodu Chodkiewiczów. Warszawa 1997, p. 149.]
Footnotes
References
*https://apcz.umk.pl/KLIO/article/view/37532/33659
*https://www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl/a/biografia/waclaw-rzewuski-1706-1779-kaszt-krakowski-hetman-wielki-koronny
1744 births
1816 deaths
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian writers
Maria Ludwika
18th-century Polish nobility
19th-century Polish landowners
19th-century women landowners
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