Goštautai

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The House of Gasztold was a family of the

Radziwiłł family clan. It appears from the Latin original spelling of their name Gastoldus which is a variation of castaldius that they had been close to the Grand Dukes and that their function was to oversee ducal demesne. Most power family gained during the reign of Casimir Jagiellon. The castaldius of Vytautas, Andrius Goštautas might have been a voivode of Vilnius and Kreva, and father of Jonas, appears to have been the precursor of the family growth. The majority of the family's possessions (lands) were in the western part of the Duchy and eastern ethnic Lithuania. After the death of the last scion of the family, Stanisław Gasztold, the Polish King and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus
inherited his possessions as a matter of right, per Grand Duchy of Lithuania law.

Name

The Goštautai family name may be found in numerous renderings: Gasztold, Gasztołd, Gasztołt, Gashtold, Gastoldus, Gastold, Gastołd, Gosztold, Gosztowd, Gosztowt, Gosztowtt, Gochtovtt, Gasztowt, Gaszdtowt, Gasztowtt, Gasthawdus, Gostautas and Goštautas; these are all different renderings of the same distorted pagan given name of Goštautai's ancestor, mentioned in written sources as

Gieraneny Castle of the Goštautai in the modern-day Grodno Region, Belarus
.

In Lithuanian the name of the clan is rendered Goštautai or Gostautai (singular, Goštautas or Gostautas); in Polish the forms Gastold or Gasztołd are used. Contemporary written sources use different forms of the name; latest English sources use both forms, Polish Gasztold and Lithuanian Gostautas.[3]

Notable family members

  • Grand Duke of Lithuania
    , and thus for three years abolished the personal union with Poland.
  • Voivode of Trakai
  • Lithuanian Statutes
    .
  • Stanisław Gasztołd (1507(?) – 1542) was the last representative of the main family branch
  • Jan Gasztowtt (1800–1871), the author of "Pan Sędzic czyli Opowiadanie o Litwie i Żmudzi", participant of the 1831 uprising
  • Zigmantas Goštautas (1889–1980), cynologist, recreated Lithuanian Hounds
  • Séverin, Titus, Alexandre de Gastold (1805-1862),il participe à la campagne contre la Russie en 1830 et 1831 et aux batailles devant Grochów les 20 et 25 février 1831, puis devant Varsovie les 6 et 7 septembre 1831. (Archives Nationales, BB 11 380)
  • Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995), French nun and author

References

  1. ^ Regesten und Texte zur Geschichte Preußens und des Deutschen Ordens Archived 2008-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ISSN 0024-5089
    .
  3. ^ Lithuania Ascending– A Pagan Empire Within East-central Europe, 1295-1345 S. C. Rowell

Sources

  • Козлоўскі С. Гаштовта - уладальнікі Ліпнішок. Нарыс гісторыі аднаго роду / Сяргей Козлоўскі // Ліпнішкі – 500 гадоў гісторыі (1510 – 2010 гг.)»: Рэгіянальная навуковая канферэнцыя прысвечаная 500 – годдзю Ліпнішкаўскай парафіі і 400-годдзю надання мястэчку Магдэбурскага права. / пад рэд. А.К. Гецэвіча – Гродна, 2010р. – С. 14-19

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