Michał Wiśniowiecki (1529–1584)

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| name = Michał Wiśniowiecki

| image = Image:Herb Korybut.jpg

| house-type = Szlachta

| noble family = Wiśniowiecki

| CoA = Korybut

| father = Aleksander Wiśniowiecki h. Korybut

| mother = Katarzyna Skoruta z Mołdaczyc h. Korczak

| spouse = Halszka Zenowiczówna h. Deszpot

| spouse-type = Consort

| birth_date = 1529

| birth_place =

| death_date = 1584

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Michał Wiśniowiecki or Mykhailo Vyshnevetsky (1529–1584) was a Ruthenian noble (szlachcic) of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a prince at Wiśniowiec, magnate, Senior of Registered Cossacks, Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks, castellan of Bracław and Kijów (Kyiv or Kiev),Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, t. V. Warszawa: 1880-1902, s. 36. starost of Czerkasy, Kaniów, Lubeka and Łojów. Great-grandfather of the future King of Poland, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki.

Wisnowiecki was born before the Union of Lublin in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Marriage and issue

Michał married Halszka Zenowiczówna h. Deszpot and had five children{{cite web|url=http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=003101 |title=Genealogia dynastyczna |publisher=Genealogia.grocholski.pl |date= |accessdate=2015-12-23}}

See also

Bibliography

  • Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski, Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, t. V, Warszawa, 1880–1902, s. 36.

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