Prince Alexander Pronsky (c. 1550 - c. 1595 ) - statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the stolnik the great Lithuanian ( 1576 - 1587 ), the headman of Lutsk (from 1580 ), the Troksky chestnut ( 1591 - 1595 ).
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| Predecessor | Nikolay Dorogostaysky | ||||||
| Successor | Krzysztof Nikolai Dorogostaysky | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Nikolay Krzysztof Radziwill "Orphan" | ||||||
| Successor | Nikolay Stanislavovich Talvash | ||||||
| Birth | about 1550 | ||||||
| Death | 1595 | ||||||
| Rod | Pronsky | ||||||
| Father | Semyon (Friedrich) Pronsky | ||||||
| Mother | Theodora Bogushovna Bogovitina | ||||||
| Spouse | Theodora Romanovna Sangushko | ||||||
| Children | Julius Ilya, Alexander Octavian | ||||||
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Biography
The representative of the Russian princely family of the Pronsky coat of arms “ Pursuit ”, the son of the governor of Kiev and the holder of Chernobyl , Prince Semyon (Friedrich) Glebovich Pronsky (d. 1555 ) and Theodora Bogovitina. Rurikovich in the XXIII knee.
In his youth, Alexander Pronsky was at the court of the French king Charles IX of Valois . In 1573, as part of the Polish-Lithuanian embassy, he traveled to France to ask the Duke Heinrich of Anjou to come to Poland and take the vacant royal throne. In 1575, he supported the election of the Transylvanian prince Stephen Batory to the throne of the Commonwealth.
In 1576, Alexander Pronsky received the post of stolnik the great Lithuanian, in 1580 he became the headman of Lutsk . He participated in the Livonian war with the Russian state .
After the death of Stefan, Batory adhered to the Habsburg orientation, advocated the election of the Austrian Archduke Maximilian to the throne of the Commonwealth. On January 24, 1588, he participated in the battle of Bychina in Silesia and, together with Maximilian, was captured by supporters of Sigismund III Vasa , was deprived of all his posts and emigrated to Prague .
After returning to his homeland, Prince Alexander Pronsky was elected deputy to the Sejm of 1590 - 1591 . In 1591, he received the position of Trokansky chestnut . He defended the sovereignty of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Commonwealth . He professed Calvinism .
Family
He was married to Princess Fyodor Romanovna Sangushko , daughter of the Lithuanian Hetman and Voivode of Bratslav, Prince Roman Fedorovich Sangushko ( 1537 - 1571 ), and Alexandra Grigoryevna Khodkevich (d. 1570 ).
Children :
- Julius Ilya Pronsky (d. 1613 )
- Alexander Octavian of Pronsky (d. 1638 )
After the death of Alexander Octavian of Pronsky, the princely family of Pronsky in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania faded.
Literature
- Pazdnyakў V. Pronskiya // Vyalikae Principality of Lithuania. Enceclapedia at 3 t . - Mn. : BelEn , 2005. - T. 2: Kadetsky Corps - Yatskevich. - S. 466. - 788 p. - ISBN 985-11-0378-0 .