Shield-Nemirovich, Jan (d. 1519/1520)

Representative of the Lithuanian gentry clan Shields-Nemirovichi coat of arms " Yastrzhembek ". The son of Yakub Yanovich Shield-Nemirovich and Opraniya Veshtortovich. Grandson of Jan Nemirovich and great-grandson of Lithuanian boyar Jan Nemira from Vselyub . Brother - Marshal Gospodar Nikolai Shield-Nemirovich (d. Before 1535 ).

Jan began his career in the service at the court of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Jagiellonchik , at the beginning of his reign. In 1506, with the rank of nobleman of the Gospodar, he testified in a document of the Grand Duke confirming the rights and privileges of Vilna , the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . He participated in the procession of Sigismund Jagiellon, who went to the coronation in Krakow (1506-1507). Soon he was appointed Vassilish governor (he held office until 1516 , with a break from 1514 to 1515, when the governor was Jan Stechko Dolubovsky. He was in close proximity to King Sigismund I. During the rebellion of the Glinsky princes, Jan Shield remained faithful to the Jagiellonian dynasty . At the beginning of 1509 he received the post of Great Lithuanian swordsman.On September 16, 1510 he became the marshal of the Gospodar, he held this position until his death.

In 1511, on the orders of the Grand Duke and King Sigismund I, Jan Nemirovich Shield traveled to Kiev with several other Lithuanian nobles to meet the sons of the Crimean Khan Mengli-Gerai .

In 1516, Yan Shield-Nemirovich became governor of Mogilev . After the loss of Smolensk in 1514, Mogilev became the center of economic life on the border of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it was of strategic importance for ensuring the defense of the state from Moscow. As governor, Jan Nemirovich-Shield concentrated his forces on strengthening the fortress. In the summer of 1517, Sigismund I sent Jan Shield together with the marshal and clerk, Lord of God, Bogush Bogovitinovich , head of the embassy in Moscow to negotiate the end of the Russo-Lithuanian war , which began in 1512 . During the stay of the Lithuanian delegation in Moscow (October 1517), an unfavorable military situation occurred for the Lithuanian army, which was defeated near Opochka in the Pskov land. Lithuanian ambassadors were reluctantly received in Moscow. They demanded, among other things, the return of Smolensk and recalled the violation by Moscow of the treaty on eternal peace of 1494. In response, the Moscow boyars accused the religious persecution of Grand Duchess Elena Ivanovna , daughter of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III and the widow of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Yagellonchik | Alexander Jagellon. Despite the mediation of the German diplomat Sigismund Herberstein , both sides could not come to a mutual agreement. November 18, 1517 Lithuanian ambassadors left Moscow.

The last years of his life, Jan Nemirovich-Shield spent in Mogilev.

Jan Nemirovich-Shield owned a number of estates, including the villages of Dzentselovo, Prigorodok and Dobromysl .

Yan Nemirovich-Shield was twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown. Spouses had at least two children:

• Yadvig , wife of the nobleman of the gospodar Jerzy (Irzhik) Olehnovich (nephew of the great Lithuanian kitchen expert Pyotr Olehnovich), the ancestor of the Irzhikovich clan
• Anna , wife of Marshal of the gospodar Adam Kosinsky (d. 1573)

For the second time, he married Sofia Petkovich, daughter of the marshal of the gospodar and governor of Brest, Stanislav Mikhailovich Petkovich. The marriage was childless. After the death of her husband, Jan Shield-Nemirovich, Sofia again married the Chancellor of the Great Lithuanian Jan Yuryevich Glebovich (1480-1549).

• T. Jaszczołt, Ród Niemiry z Wsielubia - Niemirowiczowie i Szczytowie herbu Jastrzębiec do połowy XVI wieku, [w:] Unia w Horodle na tle stosunków polsko-litewskich, S. Górzywzvi, red. 227-230
• Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XLVII / 4, Kraków 2011, s. 556–558