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Radziwiłł was the wealthiest magnate in Poland in the second half of the 18th century, and one of the richest men in Europe.
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This was especially true for major magnate families ( Sapieha and Radziwiłł clans being the most notable ), whose personal fortunes and properties often surpassed those of the royal families and were huge enough to be called a state within a state.
During The Deluge the town was taken by Muscovy, but was soon retaken by Janusz Radziwiłł.
In his voyage ( 1624 – 1625 ) he was accompanied by Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł and other, less notable courtiers.
Meanwhile, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, whose eastern part was since August 1655 occupied by another Swedish army, under Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Janusz Radziwiłł and his cousin Bogusław Radziwiłł signed the Union of Kėdainiai ( October 20, 1655 ), which ended Lithuania's union with Poland.
On December 8, 1656, the Treaty of Radnot was signed, which divided Poland-Lithuania between Charles X Gustav, Bogusław Radziwiłł, Elector Frederick William, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and George II Rákóczi.
At this time the city of Poznań was the administrative center and the seat of " Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł of Poznań ".
The monarch of the duchy, with title of Grand Duke of Posen, was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia and his representative was the Duke-Governor: the first was Prince Antoni Radziwiłł ( 1815 – 1831 ), who was married to Princess Louise of Prussia, the king's cousin.
The town was significantly destroyed ; however, thanks to Michał Radziwiłł and his wife Katarzyna Sobieska, it was rebuilt.
It was the property of Court Marshall of Lithuania Michael Glinski until confiscated and passed to the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania Mikołaj Radziwiłł in 1507.
Her future husband was engaged to Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł but the marriage never materialised and thus allowed her to marry him.
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł ( 13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician and politician.
Antoni Radziwiłł was born on 13 June 1775 in Vilnius to Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena née Przeździecka.
Struggling between his Polish subjects and the Prussian authorities, Radziwiłł found himself with little power, as effective power was executed by Oberpräsident Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti and the district governors heading the Regierungsbezirke of Posen and Bromberg.
Shortly after the outbreak of the 1830 November Uprising in Russian Congress Poland led by his brother Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, he was deprived of all powers, and the rule passed to Oberpräsident Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell.
In 1648, on the eve of the Russo-Polish War ( 1654-1667 ), Pinsk was occupied by Ukrainian Cossack army under commander Niababy and could only be reconquered with great difficulty by prince Janusz Radziwiłł, a high-ranking commander in the Polish-Lithuanian army.
Poznań was the seat of the royal governor, Duke Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł.
In 1655 a short-lived treaty with Sweden, the Union of Kėdainiai, was signed by two members of Radziwiłł family in their Kėdainiai castle.
According to one of them in 1569 the king Sigismund Augustus, who was in mourning after death of his beloved wife Barbara Radziwiłł, asked the renowned sorcerer Master Twardowski to evoke her ghost.
Radziwiłł and magnate
** Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, Polish magnate ( d. 1565 )
* May 28 – Mikołaj " the Black " Radziwiłł, Polish magnate ( b. 1515 )
** Mikołaj " the Red " Radziwiłł, Polish magnate ( b. 1512 )
** Grzegorz IV Radziwiłł, Polish magnate ( d. 1613 )
* January 4 – Mikołaj " the Black " Radziwiłł, Polish magnate ( d. 1565 )
Barbara was the daughter of a powerful magnate of the Radziwiłł family, castellan, voivode and hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Jerzy Radziwiłł, and Barbara Koła.
Prince Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł () ( 1625 – 1680 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate.
Prince Krzysztof Radziwiłł () ( 1585, Biržai – 1640 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble ( szlachcic ), and a notable magnate of his epoch.
Prince Janusz Radziwiłł of Trąby ( also known as Janusz the Second or Janusz the Younger, 1612 – 1655 ) was a notable Polish – Lithuanian noble and magnate.
Janusz Radziwiłł () ( 2 July 1579 – 3 December 1620 ) was a noble and magnate of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Bogusław Radziwiłł (; ; May 3, 1620 – December 31, 1669 ) was a princely magnate and a member of the Polish-Lithuanian szlachta, or nobility.
For several decades, the interests between the Radziwiłł family and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth had begun to drift apart, as Radziwłł were less satisfied with the magnate status of the family and its immense wealth and began craving more political power.
The estate was owned by the Radziwiłł Belarus magnate family from 1533, when it was awarded to Mikołaj Radziwiłł and his brother Jan Radziwiłł after the extinction of the Kiszka family family.
Radziwiłł and Poland
* December 6 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland ( d. 1551 )
* October 31 – At the first sejm of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.
Though Radziwiłł had been negotiating with Sweden before, during his dispute with the Polish king, Kėdainiai provided a clause stipulating that the two parts of the Commonwealth, Poland and Lithuania, need not fight each other.
During later stages of his life, Radziwiłł wrote a diary Memoriale rerum gestarum in Polonia ( Memoir or Diary of the history of Poland ) covering the 1632-1656 period.
Others claimed that the painting was commissioned by King of Poland Sigismund II Augustus and depicted his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.
* " Radziwiłł, Karol Stanisław ' Panie Kochanku '" (" Karol Stanisław ' My Dear Sir ' Radziwiłł "), Encyklopedia Polski ( Encyclopedia of Poland ), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, ISBN 83-86328-60-6, p. 564.
His last Polish aide de camp was Prince Karol Radziwiłł, who inherited a large 500, 000 acre ( 2, 000 km² ) estate in eastern Poland when the Communists killed his uncle.
In 1550 a member of the Radziwiłł family was married to Sigismund II Augustus, thus becoming the Queen of Poland.
* Barbara Radziwiłł, 1520 – 1550, Queen of Poland
Mikołaj Radziwiłł became an advocate of Lithuanian sovereignty and thus a vocal opponent of political union with Poland, ( Union of Lublin, 1569 ).
Mikołaj was able to gain much political influence thanks to the romance between his cousin Barbara Radziwiłł and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Zygmunt II August.
Barbara Radziwiłł (,, ; 6 December 1520 – 8 May 1551 ) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as consort to Sigismund II Augustus.
Her romance and later marriage in 1547, in Vilnius, to Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Sigismund II August, the last monarch of the Jagiellon Dynasty, greatly increased the power of the Radziwiłł family in Poland and Lithuania, as may be seen in the rise to power of Mikołaj " the Black " Radziwiłł and Mikołaj " the Red " Radziwiłł.
He had two daughters, of which the younger Barbara Radziwiłł became mistress and later queen to King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Zygmunt II August, which greatly strengthened the Radziwiłł family's position in Poland and Lithuania.
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