Petras Jonaitis Mantigirdaitis

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Petras Jonaitis Mantigirdaitis (

Grand Marshal of Lithuania (1491–97).[1]

Chronicler

Mantigirdaitis is mentioned as the first

Offices

Mantigirdaitis held the following offices:[1]

  • Starosta of Braslaw (1476–82) and Lutsk (1486–89)
  • Marshal of Grand Duke (1480–82) and Volhynia (1487–89)
  • Voivode of Trakai
    (1490–97)
  • Grand Marshal of Lithuania
    (1491–97)
  • Grand Hetman of Lithuania (1494–97)[4]

Family

There is no information available on his father, thus historians assume he died in his youth.[1] Mantigirdaitis was married twice. His first wife was Anna, daughter of Jonas Vėževičius, regent of Smolensk.[1] They had a son and a daughter. Their son Jonas died in the Battle of Vedrosha ending the family line.[5] Their daughter Sophia married Stanisław Kiszka, who inherited the family's substantial wealth.[6] Mantigirdaitis' second wife was Anna, daughter of Alexander Alšėniškis[1] or of Fyodor Koributovich [ru], son of Kaributas;[4] they had no children. In 1482, Anna funded the Chapel of Holy Trinity in Vilnius Cathedral.[1] It is likely that Mantigirdaitis funded the Catholic church in Iwye, his most important estate.[5]

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