Vaclav (Wenclaw) Kostevich (died 1532 ) - statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the kind of Kostevichi of the coat of arms “Leliva” . Marshals gospodar since 1509 [1] , Kobrin elder since 1519.
The son of the governor of the Kovensky, Stan'ko (Stanislav) Kostevich, the brother of Janusz Kostevich , the governor of Vitebsk and later Podlyashsky .
Around 1502 [1] Wenceslas married Anna Semenovna Kobrinsky , whose first husband, Fedor Belsky , fled to Moscow after an unsuccessful attempt on the Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir . Anna passed from Orthodoxy to Catholicism , the spouses made donations for the construction and maintenance of churches. In 1512 their rights to Kobryn were confirmed by the Grand Duke [1] .
After the death of Anne in February or March 1519 [1], the Kobrin principality became a faint and passed into the possession of the state. According to this promise [1] , on August 4, 1516, on June 7, 1519, the Grand Duke of Lithuania issued privileges , according to which Kostevich was appointed the sovereign and headman of the former principality, now transformed into eldership . Thus, until his death in 1532, Vaclav Kostevich owned the Kobrin eldership on loan.
In 1522, a church dedicated to St. Sigismund and Wenceslaus was built at his expense in Dobuchin (now Pruzhany ), which has not been preserved to this day. According to the list of troops of the Lithuanian 1528, Wenceslas exhibited 41 cavalry soldiers to the army [2] .
From the second marriage on Anna Ilinich, the daughter of Nikolai Nikolaevich and Elizaveta Yakubovna Nemirovich-Shchit [3] , Vaclav had a son Peter and a daughter Dorota. Peter died at a young age, and Dorot, who died in 1571, was the wife of Prince Yaroslav Golovchinsky (from this marriage had 3 sons and several daughters), and since 1569 Stanislav Dovoyna , from whom she had a daughter, named after her mother and the deceased in infancy [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Wolff J. Kniaziowie litewsko-ruscy from końca czternastego wieku. - Warszawa, 1895. - S. 166. (Polish)
- ↑ Perapіs troops Vyalіkaga Prince Lito Лskaga 1528 year. - Mn. : Belarusian Nauka, 2003. - p. 51. (white).
- ↑ T. Jaszczołt, Ród Niemiry z Wsielubia - Niemirowiczowie i Szczytowie herbu Jastrzębiec do połowy XVI wieku , [w:], our partner, our partner, our partner 233
- ↑ Wolff J. Kniaziowie litewsko-ruscy from końca czternastego wieku. - Warszawa, 1895. - S. 123. (Polish)