Prince Albrecht Stanislav Radziwill ( Polish Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł , July 1, 1595 , Olyka - November 12, 1656 , Gdansk ) - statesman and military leader of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , 3rd ordinate Olycki ( 1614 - 1656 ), subchancellor 16–16 Chancellor the Great Lithuanian (1623-1656), the headman of Kovensky , Borisov ( 1629 ), Tukholsky , Wrathful , Pinsky (1631) and Geranensky (1644), the economist Kobrin and Shavelsky.
| Albricht Stanislav Radziwill | |||||||
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 Portrait of Albrycht Stanislav Radziwill in 1640 | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Nicholas Krishtof Radziwill | ||||||
| Successor | Michael Casimir Radziwill | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Jerome Volovich | ||||||
| Successor | Pavel Stefan Sapega | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Lev Ivanovich Sapega | ||||||
| Successor | Krishtof Sigismund Pats | ||||||
| Birth | July 1, 1595 Olyka Kivertsovsky district Volyn region | ||||||
| Death | November 12, 1656 (61 years old) Gdansk | ||||||
| Kind | Radziwills | ||||||
| Father | Stanislav Radziwill | ||||||
| Mother | Marina Mouse | ||||||
| Spouse | Regina von Eisenreich Anna Krystyna Lyubomirskaya | ||||||
| Children | childless | ||||||
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He owned large estates in Volyn ( Olyka , etc.), as well as in the territory of modern Belarus , Lithuania and Poland .
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personality
- 2 family
- 2.1 Estate
- 3 social activities
- 4 References
Biography
Albrecht Stanislav Radziwill was born on July 1, 1595 in the family estate of Olyk , in a family from the Olitsk-Nesvizh branch of the Radziwills . Father - Marshal the great Lithuanian and general headman of Zhemaiti Stanislav Radziwill (1559-1599), mother - Marina from the clan Myshka (Marina z Myszków) (1563-1600).
Personality
He studied at the Jesuit College (now Vilnius University ) in Vilnius (1598-1605). Later he studied at several foreign universities ( Würzburg and Leuven ), knew several European languages. Zealous Catholic . Until 1616 he traveled to Western Europe, visited the Netherlands , France , Italy and Switzerland .
In 1613 and 1619 he was elected ambassador to the Sejm. He entered into an agreement with the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Lev Ivanovich Sapega , that one of them would be with the king and the Grand Duke in order to comply with the interests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . To reduce threats from the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate , he advocated an alliance with Transylvania and the Austrian Habsburgs.
In 1632, Chancellor of Lithuania Albrecht Stanislav Radziwill supported the election of Vladislav IV Vasa to the Polish royal throne, but opposed the restoration of the rights of Protestants and Orthodox Christians. In 1646, he opposed the king’s plans to start a war against Turkey. In 1648, he supported the election of Jan II Casimir to the throne of the Commonwealth.
During the conduct of domestic and foreign policy, he resolutely defended the interests of the Radziwill clan, including the Calvinist line, defiantly defended the interests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . He advocated a decisive struggle against the rebellious Ukrainian Cossacks under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky . At the beginning of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) and the Polish-Swedish War (1655–1660) he left Lithuania for East Prussia, in 1656 he participated in negotiations with Denmark and the Netherlands in Gdansk , where he died.
He founded the Pinsk Jesuit College and the church in Olyka .
After the death of childless Albrecht Stanislav Radziwill, the Olytska ordination passed to the Nesvizh ordinates .
Family
He was twice married. In 1619, he married Regina von Eisenreich (d. 1637) by his first marriage, from whom he had no children.
On March 30, 1638, he remarried to Princess Kristina Anna Lubomirsky (1618-1667), daughter of the governor of Russia, Krakow Stanislav Lubomirsky (1583-1649) from a marriage with Princess Sofia Ostrozhskaya ( 1590-1622 ), from whom she also did not have offspring.
Manor
He owned the family estate of Olyk in Volyn .
Community Activities
During his life, he held several posts in the Commonwealth, some of them are actually hereditary. From 1619 he was the Chancellor of Lithuania, from 1623 until the end of his life - the great Chancellor of Lithuania. Radziwill was responsible for foreign policy and international relations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Links
- Vyalikae of the Principality of Litoskae: Enceklapedyya. At 3 t / red. G.P. Pashkoў іnsh. T. 2: Kadetsky Corps - Yatskevich. - Minsk: Belarus Entsiklapedyya, 2005. - 788 p.: Il. ISBN 985-11-0378-0 .