Wenden Voivodeship
Officially, Wenden Voivodeship belonged to Poland–Lithuania until the Treaty of Oliva in 1660. Its capital was Wenden, where local sejmiks of the nobility (see szlachta) took place. Wenden Voivodeship elected two deputies to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Even though it no longer belonged to the Commonwealth after the Swedish conquest, its voivodes continued to be named by Polish kings until the final partition of Poland (1795), as the so-called "fictitious titles" (Polish: urzędy fikcyjne).
Major cities, towns and castles of Wenden Voivodeship were: Cēsis (Kies, Wenden), Riga, Koknese (Kokenhausen), Salaspils (Kircholm), Daugavpils (Dyneburg), Rēzekne (Rzezyca, Rositten), Viļaka (Marienhausen), Gulbene (Schwanenburg), Ludza (Lucyn), Krustpils (Kreutzburg).
Voivodes of Wenden
The seat of the voivode was Wenden (Cēsis). The voivodes were as follow:
- 1598–1602 Jürgen von Farensbach
- 1602-1602 Maciej Dembiński
- 1609-1619 Krzysztof Słuszka
- 1620–1622 Teodor Denhoff
- 1627–1641 Joachim Tarnowski
- 1641–1643 Tomasz Sapieha
- 1643-1659 Mikołaj Korff
- 1659-1660 Aleksander Morsztyn
References
- ^ Niesiecki, Kasper (1846). Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego (in Polish). Waif. p. 228.
- ^ Butulis, Ilgvars; Zunda, Antonijs (2020). Latvijos istorija. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. p. 126. ISBN 9785420018248.
- ^ Mikulski & Rachuba 1994, p. 112–113.
Bibliography
- Mikulski, Krzysztof; Rachuba, Andrzej (1994). Urzędnicy inflanccy XVI-XVIII wieku. Spisy. Urzędnicy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej XII-XVIII wieku. Spisy. Vol. 9. Kórnik.
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