Filon Kmita (1530 - 1587) was a noble in the
Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until 1795. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the pagan Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija...
and
Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed by the union of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569. The new Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe....
. Voivode of Smolensk (since 1579),
rotmistrzRotmistrz was a military rank in Poland from the 15th century to the mid-20th century. It is often Anglicized as rotamaster. In earlier times the rotmistrz served as the commander of an infantry or cavalry company , though sometimes he would temporarily be assigned field-grade tasks commanding an...
in the army and starost of
OrshaOrsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000 Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000...
(since 1566).
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Filon Kmita (1530 - 1587) was a noble in the
Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until 1795. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the pagan Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija...
and
Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed by the union of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569. The new Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe....
. Voivode of Smolensk (since 1579),
rotmistrzRotmistrz was a military rank in Poland from the 15th century to the mid-20th century. It is often Anglicized as rotamaster. In earlier times the rotmistrz served as the commander of an infantry or cavalry company , though sometimes he would temporarily be assigned field-grade tasks commanding an...
in the army and starost of
OrshaOrsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000 Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000...
(since 1566).
Fought in the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars and the
Livonian WarThe Livonian War of 1558–1583 was a lengthy series of wars between the Tsardom of Russia and a variable coalition of Denmark–Norway, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland , and Sweden for control of medieval Livonia, the territory of the present-day Estonia and Latvia.By the late 1550s,...
.