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  Lew Sapieha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lew Sapieha (1557-1633) (Belarusian: Леў Сапега; Lithuanian: Leonas Sapiega).
A rich and powerful magnate, he was known for his wisdom as a statesman, lawyer and military commander, he was one of the greatest leaders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the times of the Duchy's highest cultural flourishing.
Lew Sapieha • Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł • Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac • Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński • Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł • Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł • Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki • Jan Fryderyk Sapieha • Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski • Aleksander Michał Sapieha • Joachim Littawor Chreptowicz
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 Sapieha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sapieha (Belarusian: Сапега; Lithuanian Sapiega) is a Polish-Lithuanian princely family descending from the medieval boyars of Smolensk.
The creator of the fortune and power of the Sapieha family was Court and Great Chancellor and Great Hetman of Lithuania Lew Sapieha, a powerful magnate.
Kazimierz Lew Sapieha (1609-1656), Marshal of the Crown, son of Lew Sapieha
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 Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Prince Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha (1757-1798) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic).
Kazimierz Sapieha was educated at the Knight School in Warsaw from 1767 until 1791, and served as Artillery General of Lithuania, from 1773 to 1793.
An early supporter of the magnate opposition to any liberalization (his uncle Hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki was its leader), Sapieha changed his position under the influence of Stanislaw Malachowski, and became a supporter of reforms, and the May 3rd Constitution.
en.juugle.info /Kazimierz_Nestor_Sapieha.htm   (212 words)

  
 List of szlachta - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Jan Piotr Sapieha, 1569-1611, starosta uświacki, pułkownik królewski
Jan Stanisław Sapieha, 1589-1635, Chancellor of Lithuania from 1621-1635, childless
Jan Fryderyk Sapieha, 1680–1751, Grand Recorder of Lithuania between 1706 and 1709, since 1716 the castellan of Troki and after 1735 the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania
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 Biaroza Monastery info here at en.90of100b.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pope Alexander VII granted the caption of prince to Lew Sapieha, who was beholden for the noble deed.
The cornerstone of the monastery was laid in 1648 by the monastery's founder, Kazimierz Leon Sapieha, in the being of bishop Andrzej Hiembiński 'n the nuncio of Rome, Jan de Torres.
Kazimierz Leon Sapieha, the son of the Commonwealth magnate Lew Sapieha 'n carving of the pre-eminent Sapieha family, was the basic sugar daddy of the project.
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 Biaroza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the 17th century, the village belonged to Sapieha family, who founded a fortified monastery and a palace here.
In 1648, the monastery was presented to the Carthusian monks, who came from the Italian town of Treviso and settled here.
The pope Alexander VII granted the title of a prince to Lew Sapieha, being thankful for the noble deed.
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 Lyakhovichi Chain of Title -Kestautis, Vytautis, Gostautis, Sigismund August, Chodkevicus, Sapieha, Massalski, ...
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.
Sapieha used his close ties to the Polish King to free Lyakhovichi and surrounding rural communities from taxes for nine years beginning in 1661.
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 From Heraldry Forum, page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The princely Sapiehas are now to be found throughout the world, but several are still in Poland.
As of the engagement of Belgian Crown Prince Philippe to Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in 1999 the Belgian monarchy acquired Sapieha blood.
The first, descendants of Skumin, son of Lew, son of the eponymous Tyszka, became extinct 26 June 1808.
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 Federalism or Force: SR, January 2006
In 1600 another large group of envoys headed by the Lithuanian Chancellor Lew Sapieha was sent to Moscow.
In a letter to Lew Sapieha he wrote: “It took us a hundred and sixty years to accomplish the union with the nation to which Your Excellency belongs [the Lithuanians].
Surely you understand that a few weeks is not enough to bring to fruition a similar union with the great Muscovite kingdom.” (7) Unfortunately, King Sigismund was impatient and did not understand Žółkiewski’s policy: he refused to ratify the agreement inviting Prince Vladislas to assume the Moscow throne.
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 PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
While Lew Sapieha was still marshal of the Lithuanian Court he added two departments, canon and civil law and brought in two professors from Ingolstadt (Balinski, The Former Academy).
The discord and turmoil were not conducive to the good of the city and little changed with August II accession to the throne in 1699 apart from the new privilege, which merely reinforced the old one.
On 18 March 1700, a fire destroyed that part of the city from the castle to the city hall on the left and the population suffered because of the undisciplined soldiers, both Sapieha’s and the regulars.
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 Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
In late 1600 a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth diplomatic mission led by Great Lithuanian Chancellor Lew Sapieha with Eliasz Pielgrzymowski and Stanisław Warszycki arrived in Moscow and proposed an alliance between Commonwealth and Muscovy, including a future personal union.
For most of the 1600s, Commonwealth king Sigismund III was occupied with the internal problems like civil war of his own in the Commonwealth (the rokosz of Zebrzydowski), and wars with Sweden and in Moldavia.
Commonwealth magnates looked forward to material gains from the campaign and control over Dmitri, In addition, both some Polish magnates and Muscovy boyars advanced plans for the union between Commonwealth and Muscovy, similar to the ones Lew Sapieha discussed in 1600 and that were eventually dismissed by tsar Godunov.
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 Download Info of - Barrie (electoral district)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1568, that is the following year, a battle took place in the vicinity of the castle, in which the 40,000 men strong army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeated the forces of Muscovy.
On August 20, 1631 Sapieha sold it to Stanisław Siemiott, the chamberlain of Samogitia, who then divided the villages surrounding Maładečna among his sons.
Following a testament conflict between the descendantd of Siemiott and Aleksander Gosiewski, the Voivod of Smolensk, the town remained a property of the Gosiewski family.
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 Free Ebooks of NYPD Housing Police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In late 1600 a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth diplomatic mission led by kanclerz Lew Sapieha with Eliasz Pielgrzymowski and Stanisław Warszycki arrived in Moscow and proposed an alliance between the Commonwealth and Muscovy, which would include a future personal union.
For most of the 1600s, Sigismund III was occupied with internal problems of his own, like the civil war in the Commonwealth (the rokosz of Zebrzydowski) and the Polish-Swedish War and Moldavian Magnate Wars.
When Jan Piotr Sapieha failed to win the siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, Lisowczycy retreated to the vicinity of Rakhmantsevo.
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 Sapieha
3c) Lew Jerzy (Spusza 10 Jul 1913-London 7 Dec 1990); m.1st Wysocko
Our family coat of arms of Sapieha is registered with these information in the Heraldic register of ministry of interior in
The Heraldic register reestablish its funcion of registration of the old original family coats of arms just recently as the other Heraldic registers in the former totalitarian bloc and so it's eventually possible to fill in the information about the family members who remained in this places.
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- Jan Piotr Sapieha, 1569-1611, starosta uświacki, pułkownik królewski
- Jan Stanisław Sapieha, 1589-1635, Chancellor of Lithuania from 1621-1635, childless
- Jan Fryderyk Sapieha, 1680–1751, Grand Recorder of Lithuania between 1706 and 1709, since 1716 the castellan of Troki and after 1735 the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania
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 (Poland: History of its Elective Democracy)
On his lands in Kiejdany he set up a Calvinist cultural and religious center.
Lew Sapieha (1557-1633)--He served as the Speaker of the Seym of 1582.
Adviser to Sigismund III Vasa and one of the planners of the Union with Muscovy in 1600, he master-minded and participated in the expeditions against Moscow in 1609-18.
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 Lithuanian Fiction
Best-selling novel placed in Lithuania in the late 19th century.
Jozef Mackiewicz, Translated from Polisy by Lew Sapieha
A best-selling, frightening novel addressing the incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union.
www.lithuanianglobal.org /books/fictiona.html   (813 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Kraków - Seat of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania
They also oppose foreign Kings, believing that instead the King should be a native of Poland that is elected by the Sejm as a sort of chief of the Sejm.
Chlebowicz however remains moderately disgruntled that all of Zamoyski's power did not follow, going instead to the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Lew Sapieha.
Formerly Secretary of the King for King Ernst, he was promoted to fill the void left by Jan Chlebowicz after he too was promoted following the death of Chancellor Zamoyski.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=4515544   (6282 words)

  
 OSI: East East Program 2004 Projects: Central & Eastern Europe, Central Eurasia, and Turkey
Organizer: St. Maximilian Kolbe House of Reconciliation and Meetings, Gdansk (www.dmk.pl) in partnership with the Lew Sapieha Foundation, Vitebsk
Summary: To engage teachers, youth organization leaders and local journalists in small towns of Belarus and to offer them experiences, knowledge and information about promoting, initiating, supporting and leading local youth initiatives and resolving community problems through youth initiatives.
Summary: To support young people (age 16—26) living in small towns or villages in northwest Belarus by providing an opportunity to develop rural tourism initiatives through youth clubs in the Pastavy Region based on experiences in Poland.
www.soros.org /initiatives/east/focus_areas/ceece/grantees/projects_2004?skin=printable   (11258 words)

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