- Wiśniowiecki
Wiśniowiecki ( _uk. Вишневе́цький _lt. Višnioveckiai|}) is the name of a family notable in the history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful
magnate s inRuthenia ofGediminids descent,Kniaz (prince) actually, in thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , with vast possessions in the 16th to 18th centuries on the territories of today'sUkraine , particularly the town ofVyshnivets . The ancestor of the family was DukeKaributas (Ruthenian: "Dymitr Korybut"), a son of theGrand Duke of Lithuania ,Algirdas . His son Fedor ofNesvizh started the family.Likely the most notable members of this family were
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ,king of Poland andGrand Duke of Lithuania from 1669 to 1673, and his fatherJeremi Wiśniowiecki .Notable family members
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Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (firstAtaman of the UkrainianCossack s, Hetman of the Registered Cossacks).
*Janusz Wiśniowiecki (Master of the Stables of the Crown.)
*Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki (Great Guard andHetman of the Crown,voivode of Belz and Kraków)
*Janusz Antoni Wisniowiecki
*Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (Prince at Wiśniowiec, Łubny and Chorol, Palatine of Ruthenia.)
*Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1669-1673.)
*Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki (Hetman,Castellan and Voivode of Vilnius, Great Chancellor of Lithuania)ee also
* Wiśniowiec
*Lithuanian nobility
* Kings of Poland
*szlachta External links
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/poland/wisniow.html Geneaology of Wiśniowiecki-Zbaraski family.] pl icon
* [http://www.castles.com.ua/index.php?id=vis Pictures of Wiśniowiec castle.] (in Ukrainian)
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