The Tyzenhauz family (, , , ) was a noble family of the

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extraction.Butterwick, R. (2021). ''The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795''. Cambridge University Press. It was active in the

Duchy of Livonia The Duchy of Livonia, also referred to as Polish Livonia or Livonia, was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1561 to 1621. It corresponds to the present-day areas of northe ...

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and the northern

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.Stone, D. Z. (2014). ''The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795''. University of Washington Press. Among the best-known members of the family were Gothard Jan Tyzenhauz, the Voivode of Dorpat (1634–1640),

Konstanty Tyzenhauz Count Konstanty Tyzenhauz (; 3 June 1786 – 16 March 1853) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, naturalist, artist, and patron of ornithology in Poland and Lithuania. He made a large collection of eggs and bird skins at his estate in Postawy (now in ...

(1786–1853), ornithologist, and

Antoni Tyzenhauz Antoni Tyzenhauz (1733 – 31 March 1785) was a noble from the Tyzenhaus family, son of Benedykt Tyzenhauz. As a personal friend of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Tyzenhaus became Treasurer of the G ...

(1733–1785), the manager of royal property during the reign of

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. Antoni built Tyzenhauz Palace in

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. In

Rokiškis Rokiškis () is a list of cities in Lithuania, city in northeastern Lithuania, close to the Latvia–Lithuania border, with a population of 11,606 (2023). The city is a capital of the Rokiškis District Municipality with a population of 28,715 (20 ...

, northern Lithuania, the family also built the neogothic church of St. Matthias and

Rokiškis Manor Rokiškis Manor () is a former residential manor house, manor in Rokiškis, north-eastern Lithuania. From 1940 to 1942 and again from 1952, the manor house is used by Rokiškis Regional Museum. Architecture The original manor house from the 1 ...

, which now houses Rokiškis Regional Museum. Tyzenhauz Palace in Vilnius

This family is a collateral branch of the medievally-originated

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House of Tiesenhausen, which already in the late medieval epoch, held fiefs in

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and

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. Other branches of that family came to some prominence in

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, in

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and in

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