Dymitr Jerzy Wisniowiecki
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Noble Family Szlachta The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of... |
Wiśniowiecki Wisniowiecki Wiśniowiecki is the name of a family notable in the history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates in Ruthenia of Rurikid or Gediminids descent. The family traditions traces their descend to Gediminids, but modern historians believe there is more evidence for the Rurikid... |
Coat of Arms Polish heraldry Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe... |
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Parents | Janusz Wisniowiecki Janusz Wisniowiecki Janusz Wiśniowiecki , koniuszy wielki koronny from 1633, starost of Krzemieniec.In 1631 after the death of Jerzy Zbaraski inherited Puławy.Married to Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz... Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz was a Polish noble lady.Katarzyna was the daughter of Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz and Barbara Naruszewicz... |
Consorts | Marianna Zamoyska Marianna Zamoyska Marianna Zamoyska was a Polish noble lady.Marianna was the daughter of Podstoli Zdzisław Jan Zamoyski and Anna Zofia Lackorońska. She was married to Field and Great Hetman Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki.... Teofilia Ludwika Zasławska |
Children | with Marianna Zamoyska Zofia Wiśniowiecka Eugenia Katarzyna Wiśniowiecka |
Date of Birth | 9 December 1631 |
Place of Birth | Wisniowiec |
Date of Death | 28 July 1682 |
Place of Death | Lublin Lublin Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river... |
Prince Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki (1631–1682) was a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
magnate
Magnate
Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...
and szlachcic.
Wiśniowiecki was Great Guard of the Crown from 1658, Field Hetman of the Crown from 1668, Great Crown Hetman from 1676, voivode of Belz
Belz
Belz , a small city in the Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, is located between the Solokiya river and the Rzeczyca stream....
1660–1678 and Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
1678–1681, and castellan
Castellan
A castellan was the governor or captain of a castle. The word stems from the Latin Castellanus, derived from castellum "castle". Also known as a constable.-Duties:...
of Kraków from 1681. He was starost of Biala Cerkiew, Krzemieniec, Solec
Solec
Solec may refer to the following places:*Solec, Łódź Voivodeship *Solec, Gostynin County in Masovian Voivodeship *Solec, Piaseczno County in Masovian Voivodeship...
, Kamionka Strumilowa, Braha and Luboml
Liuboml
Liuboml is a city located in the Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. It has an estimated population of around 10,300 and is the administrative center of the Lyubomlskyi Raion .Liuboml is situated two hundred miles southeast of Warsaw, Poland, in a region known as...
.
He participated in the war with Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
("The Deluge
The Deluge (Polish history)
The term Deluge denotes a series of mid-17th century campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, thus comprising the Polish–Lithuanian theaters of the Russo-Polish and...
") in 1655–1660, battles with George Rakoczy II in 1657, Battle of Chocim
Battle of Khotyn (1673)
Battle of Khotyn on 11 November 1673 was a battle where Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under hetman Jan Sobieski defeated Ottoman Empire forces under Hussain Pasha...
in 1673, and battles in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
in 1674–1675.
See also
- Lithuanian nobility
- Wiśniowiecki familyWisniowieckiWiśniowiecki is the name of a family notable in the history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates in Ruthenia of Rurikid or Gediminids descent. The family traditions traces their descend to Gediminids, but modern historians believe there is more evidence for the Rurikid...
- List of szlachta