Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł

Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł
Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł
	Zygmunt Karol Radziwiłł ; Katarzyna Radziwiłł ; Krystyna Radziwiłł ; Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł
Parent(s)	Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł ; Elżbieta Szydłowiecka

Prince Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł

Imperial Prince of the Holy Roman Empire

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Biography

Mikołaj's pilgrimage stick (left) and book about his trip to the Holy Land (right)

He was nicknamed "the Orphan", in his infancy, by the Polish king Sigismund II Augustus (while his parents were still alive). He married Halaszka Eufemia Wiśniowiecka on 24 November 1584, a Calvinist, who under his influence, converted to Roman Catholicism.^{[citation needed]}

He took part in the Livonian War against Muscovites.^[1] In 1573, he was a member of a diplomatic mission to France to the future king of Poland, Henry III of France.

Unlike many other members of

Zebrzydowski Rebellion, a szlachta's confederation threatening the king.^[1] He attempted to convince the confederates to surrender without unnecessary bloodshed.^[1]

Like other members of the Radziwiłłs family, he couldn't escape the political ambitions of his family, and when needed, he would support it.

Krzysztof 'Piorun' Radziwiłł, whose conflict with another powerful family threatened to plunge the Grand Duchy into a civil war.^[1]

Mikołaj became famous for a vivid account of his eventful

Anatomy of Melancholy: "Radzivilius, the Polonian duke, calls this apparition, Sancti Germani sidus; and saith moreover that he saw the same after in a storm, as he was sailing, 1582, from Alexandria to Rhodes".^{[citation needed}

]

While in Rome, he met

Nesvizh, founded by Mikołaj Krzysztof, would become the family's mausoleum for the Radziwiłłs, serving them for the next two hundred and a half centuries.^[1]

In Nieśwież, which became his seat, he also built a fortified castle.^[1] He was a patron of artists and scientists; for example he supported the works of cartographers such as Tomasz Makowski.

Notes

^ Although titles like prince could not be granted by kings of the Commonwealth to the egalitarian szlachta, the Radziwiłł family received the title of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and the imperial standing from emperor Ferdinand I.

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Peter Paul Bajer Short history of the Radziwill Family Archived 2006-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
^ Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzystof (Nicolaus Christophorus Radzivilus) (1601), Hierosolymitana Peregrinatio [A Jerusalem Trip], Braniewo (Brunsberga): Georg Schönfels (Georgius Schonfels). (in Latin)
^ Podróż do Ziemi Świętej, Syrii i Egiptu 1582-1584 (The trip to Holy Land, Syria and Egypt 1582-1584).

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External links

[1] Although titles like prince could not be granted by kings of the Commonwealth to the egalitarian szlachta, the Radziwiłł family received the title of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and the imperial standing from emperor Ferdinand I.

[hist-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Peter Paul Bajer Short history of the Radziwill Family Archived 2006-12-31 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzystof (Nicolaus Christophorus Radzivilus) (1601), Hierosolymitana Peregrinatio [A Jerusalem Trip], Braniewo (Brunsberga): Georg Schönfels (Georgius Schonfels). (in Latin)

[4] Podróż do Ziemi Świętej, Syrii i Egiptu 1582-1584 (The trip to Holy Land, Syria and Egypt 1582-1584).

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