Semyon Sopiga ( Sapega ) - statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Scribe of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV in the 1440s. Came from the Polotsk boyars , the ancestor of the Sapieha clan .
| Semen Sopig | |
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 Semen Sopig , unknown artist, XVIII century | |
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| Spouse | Anastasia Polshanka |
| Children | Bogdan , Ivan , Yuri, Vasily, Anna |
Biography
Very little is known about the life of Semyon Sopigi. According to the legendary genealogy of the Sapieha clan (“Historia domus Sapiehianae”), Semyon was the son of Sunigailo , great-great-grandson of Grand Duke Gedimin , who adopted the coat of arms “Fox” in the Union of Towns of 1413 . Nevertheless, back in the 19th century, the genealogy of Stadnitsky established that Sunigailo died childless [1] .
According to modern ideas, Semyon Sopig came from the Polotsk boyars, and his main possessions were in the Smolensk region [2] .
Semyon Sopig was married to Anastasia Polshanka [3] and had four sons, two of whom, Bogdan and Ivashka, went two branches of the Sapeg clan - Chereisko-Ruzhanskaya and Kodanskaya [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Sapieha // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ 1 2 Grytskevich A. Sapeghi // Vyalikae of the Principality of Lithuania. Enceclapedia at 3 t . - Mn. : BelEn , 2005. - T. 2: Kadetsky Corps - Yatskevich. - S. 545. - 788 p. - ISBN 985-11-0378-0 .
- ↑ Sapieha E., Saeed-Kałamajska M. Dom Sapieżyński. - Cz. 2. - Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 2008 .-- S. 19.
Links
- Sapega // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Sapieha // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.