Radziwill, Jerome Wincent

Representative of the richest magnate family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Radziwill coat of arms of the Pipe . The only son of the great Lithuanian hetman and governor of Vilnius Mikhail Casimir Radziwill Rybonka ( 1702 - 1762 ) from his second marriage with Anna Louise Mitselskaya ( 1729 - 1771 ), widow of the guard of the Lithuanian Pole Leon Michael Radziwill . The younger half-brother of the governor of Vilnius Karol Stanislav Radziwill Panet Kohanku .

Because of the sequestration, the Radziwill estates Jerome Vincent spent his childhood in the Czech Republic and Germany. He received a home education, one of his teachers was the famous Polish writer and teacher Jozef Katenbring (1730-1804). He served in the Austrian army. He was a ward, then a companion of his half-brother Karol Stanislav Radziwill Panah Kohanku, who helped him get high positions in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For his services, he became a holder of the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of St. Hubert. Contained a theater in Biała Podlaska .

In 1779, Jerome Vincent Radiwill received the post of sub-committee of the great Lithuanian, in 1780 he became the captain of the hussar gonfalon in the Lithuanian troops. In 1780 and 1784 - ambassador to the Sejm, in 1782 - 1783 - deputy of the Tribunal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1783, he received the Minsk headman.

On December 31, 1775, Prince Jerome Wincent Radziwill in Regensburg married the German Princess Sophia Frederick Thurn-i-Taxis , the second daughter of Karl Anselm (1733-1805), 4th Imperial Prince Thurn-i-Taxis, and Augusta Elizabeth of Württemberg . This wedding spawned Lithuanian tycoon Jerome Vincent Radziwill with many European dynasties. In marriage they had four sons, including Nicholas, Karol and Dominic Jerome .

In 1777, Jerome and Sophia Dorothea Radziwill were received in Vienna by the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and in Warsaw by the Polish King Stanislav Augustus Poniatowski . However , a huge scandal erupted on January 17, 1784 . Sophia Dorothea, together with her lover, secretly fled from Nesvizh, taking with her many valuable things. The Lithuanian subcommittee Jerome Vincent Radziwill rushed after them and arrested them in Tilsit , on the border with Prussia. The princess’s lover was the famous Czech composer Jan Vladislav Dussek , who in March 1783 performed in Warsaw, from where he went to Nesvizh . After a day of captivity, Dussek was able to escape. After this, the relationship between the spouses completely deteriorated. The princess lived for a long time in Koenigsberg and Regensburg . In January 1786, Jerome Vincent Radziwill initiated a divorce from his wife.

September 18, 1786, 27-year-old Jerome Vincent Radziwill died. His possessions were inherited by his young son, Dominic Jerome Radziwill ( August 4, 1786 - November 11, 1813 ), who was under the care of his uncle Karol Stanislav Radziwill Panah Kohanku.

• Radzіvіl Geranіm Vіntsenty // Vyalіkay of the Principality of Lithuania. Enceclapedia at 3 t . - Mn. : BelEn , 2005. - T. 2: Kadetsky Corps - Yatskevich. - S. 488. - 788 p. - ISBN 985-11-0378-0 .