Chernihiv Voivodeship

Czernihów Voivodeship Województwo czernihowskie Palatinatus Czernihoviensis
Voivodeship of Poland
1635–1654
coat of arms
Czernihów
History
• Established	1635
• Disestablished	1654
Political subdivisions	counties: 2
Preceded by Succeeded by Grand Duchy of Lithuania Cossack Hetmanate

Czernihów (Chernihiv) Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo czernihowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1635 until Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648 (technically it existed up until 1654). Also it was used as a fictitious title in the Commonwealth until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1795. In 1635, Marcin Kalinowski was the first voivode (governor) of the Chernihiv Voivodeship.

The voivodeship was part of the

The history of Czernihow Voivodeship dates back to 1618, when after the Truce of Deulino, the Commonwealth gained control of the towns of Smolensk, Czernihow and Nowogród Siewierski. Since the truce was set to expire in 14.5 years, new acquisitions were not organized in official way. Smolensk was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, while both Czernihow and Nowogrod became part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland forming the Duchy of Siveria.^[1][2] In 1633, during the Smolensk War, Polish Parliament (Sejm) introduced a bill in which both land court and starosta office were established at Czernihow. In 1634 the Treaty of Polyanovka confirmed that Czernihow remained part of Poland, so finally in 1635 the Sejm created the voivodeship, with two senators – the Voivode and the Castellan of Czernihow. Both county elected two deputies to the Sejm, and one deputy to the Lesser Poland Tribunal at Lublin. In 1637, construction of a fortress at Konotop began, whose purpose was to protect the newly acquired province. The fortress was completed in 1642.

The Commonwealth lost control of the province as early as 1648, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. In the Treaty of Hadiach (1658), the Duchy of Ruthenia was created out of Czernihow Voivodship, Kiev Voivodeship and Bracław Voivodeship. The idea however was quickly abandoned, and after the Truce of Andrusovo (1667), Czernihow Voivodeship was annexed by the Tsardom of Russia.

The history of Czernihow Voivodeship does not end in 1667. Following the example of other provinces lost by the Commonwealth in the mid-17th century (e.g.

Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of Czernihow Voivodeship:

Czernihow on the

Grand Principality of Moscow, where it remained until 1618. Officially, Czernihow belonged to the Commonwealth for 59 years, until 1667 (see also Truce of Andrusovo

) (...) Since the 1618

Eternal Peace Treaty

. Poland kept the titles of civil servants of Czernihow Voivodeship, and later on, the number of fictitious deputies was raised from 4 to 6.

• Czerihów

Administrative divisions:

• Czerihów County
• Nowogród County

Voivodes

• Marcin Kalinowski 1602–1652
• Stefan Bieniewski 1598–1648
• Krzysztof Łohojski-Tyszkiewicz 1616–1666
• Stanisław Kazimierz Bieniewski 1611–1695
• Mariusz Stanisław Jaskólski 1624–1683
• Jan Gniński 1650–1703
• Otto Fryderyk Felkerzamb 1641–1705
• Franciszek Jan Załuski 1660–1735
• Mikołaj Franciszek Krosnowski 1652–1723
• Piotr Jan Potocki 1679–1726
• Józef Lubomirski 1680–1732
• Józef Remigian Potulicki 1732–1734
• Jakub Florian Narzymski 1690–1759
• Piotr Michał Miączyński 1695–1776
• Franciszek Antoni Ledóchowski 1755–1835
• Ludwik Wilga, died 1797

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chernigov Voivodeship (1619-1667).

• Czernihow Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger
• Central European Superpower, Henryk Litwin, BUM Magazine, October 2016.

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