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| | Lyakhovichi Chain of Title -Kestautis, Vytautis, Gostautis, Sigismund August, Chodkevicus, Sapieha, Massalski, ... |
 | | Other titles were claimed by Gostautas and his children by right of Lithuanian nobility, by marriage acquisition, or by purchase, but the title Palatine of Troki and all of the lands therein, was held in the Gostautas line from the 1430s until the last male heir died in the 1540s. |
 | | Her husband’s property eventually passed to another line of his family but Lyakhovichi remained part of the Sapieha estate until the estate was sold by the Sapiehas in 1760 to the nobleman Michael Joszef Massalski. |
 | | When the family of his powerful cousin Lew Sapieha (Jan’s father Jan Piotr Sapieha was the son of Pawel Sapieha who was the brother to the father of Lew Sapieha) had no surviving heirs in 1656 and no closer kin in the male lines, Jan Pawel Sapieha inherited those estates. |
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