Everything about Ivan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz totally explained
Knyaz Ivan Hieronimovich Chodkiewicz (1537 - 1579)
Great Master of the Pantry of Lithuania 1559, general
starost of
Samogitia 1563,
Elder of Samogitia 1564, starost of
Telszew and
Ploeltsk 1566,
Livonia Hetman and
governor,
Grand Marshal of Lithuania 1566,
Kaunas starost 1569,
Count on
Szkłów 1568,
Vilnius castellan 1574.
Biography
He was one of the most famous Lithuanian magnates of the 16th century. He studied at the universities of
Königsberg,
Leipzig and
Wittenberg, and entered in the service of
Emperor Charles V from 1552 to 1555. After that he entered the service of the
Grand Duke of Lithuania. In 1558 Ivan Chodkiewicz was made
Livonia Hetman and sent to defend Livonia against Tsar
Ivan IV 'the Terrible' who was trying to enforce a passage to the
Baltic Sea. With the help of Michael Radziwill,
Great Chancellor of Lithuania, he succeeded in attaching Livonia to
Lithuania. But this territory remained for long the main target of Russian attacks. In 1564 he became
Elder of Samogitia, in 1566
Grand Marshal of Lithuania and governor of Livonia (1566-78, with headquarter at
Sigulda near
Riga), and in 1574 Castellan of Vilnius. As his uncle he was a strong opponent to the
Union of Lithuania with
Poland. King
Zygmunt August was transferring many Lithuanian territories to Poland (
Podlesie,
Volhynia,
Kiev Voivodeship, and in
Lublin in 1569 he succeeded formally to found one integrated nation out of the Polish-Lithuanian federation. The Lithuanian delegation to the meetings preparing the Act of Union was led by Ivan, who insisted in a long impassioned speech on the equality and independence of the two nations. Finally "
bowing to the king's power, he pointed out those parts of the Act of Union which were unacceptable to Lithuania and he stated that he yielded to the King's will only with the deepest sorrow".
In practice Lithuania retained its own government and laws until the end of the joint state in 1795 the Act of Union was never rigorously enforced.
Married Krystyna Zborowska before 1559 in
Crakow, daughter of
Marcin Zborowski,
Cracow castellan, and Anna Konarska.
With the first wife they'd issue: in 1559 Hieronim was borned at Vilnius, Aleksander in
Trakai 1560 year,
Jan Karol Vilnius 1560-61, Anna in Vilnius 1562 year, Zofia in Vilnius 1564, Elzbieta Vilnius 1568 and Aleksandra borned 1576 at Vilnius.
He died at 4 aug 1579, and was buried in
Vilnius Cathedral.
Ancestry
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