Trakai Voivodeship

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Trakai Voivodeship

Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
from 1413 until 1795.

ai Voivodeship together with Vilnius Voivodeship

Vilnius Voivodeship

The Vilnius Voivodeship was one of voivodeships in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created in 1413, from the Duchy of Lithuania and neighbouring lands....
was established by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great

Vytautas the Great

Vytautas the Great , was one of the most famous rulers of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With the title Didysis Kunigaik?tis, the equivalent of Monarch, he was the supreme ruler of his dominions and also a member of the Order of the Dragon....
in 1413 according to the Union of Horodlo

Union of Horodlo

The Pact of Horodlo or Union of Horodlo was a set of acts introduced in the town of Horodlo in 1413. It amended the earlier Polish-Lithuanian Unions of Union of Krewo and Union of Vilnius and Radom was another step to recognise Lithuanian nobility as equal in the union between two sovereign states, ruled separately by elected monarch....
. Vytautas copied Polish system of administrative division in order to centralize and strengthen the government.

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Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

History

Trakai Voivodeship together with Vilnius Voivodeship

Vilnius Voivodeship

Vytautas the Great

Union of Horodlo

Duchy of Trakai

Duchy of Trakai was a subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The Duke of Trakai was an important position held either by the Grand Duke of Lithuania himself or his second-in-command....
, which was ruled directly by the Grand Duke or his close relative (brother or son). The Duke of Trakai was replaced by appointed officials – voivodes and his deputy castellan

Castellan

A castellan was the governor or Property caretaker of a castle or keep. The word stems from the Latin Castellanus, derived from castellum 'castle'....
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The voivodeship was divided into four powiat

Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture in other countries....
s: Hrodna

Hrodna

Hrodna or Grodno , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 325,164 inhabitants ....
, Kaunas

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, Trakai

Trakai

Trakai is a historic city and lake resort in Lithuania. It lies 28 km west of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Because of its proximity to Vilnius, Trakai is a popular tourist destination....
(ruled directly by the voivode), and Upyte

Upyte

Upyte is a small village in Paneve?ys district municipality in northern Lithuania. It is situated some 12 km southwest of Paneve?ys on the banks of Ve?eta Creek....
. The biggest cities in the voivodeship were Kaunas

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, Hrodna

Hrodna

Hrodna or Grodno , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 325,164 inhabitants ....
and Trakai

Trakai

Union of Lublin

The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages....
the voivodeship, together with whole Grand Duchy of Lithuania, became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partitions of the Commonwealth

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
in 1795. Most of the territory became part of Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
while territories west of the Neman River

Neman River

Neman or Nemunas is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipeda....
– part of the Province of East Prussia

Province of East Prussia

The Province of East Prussia was a provinces of Prussia of Prussia from 1773-1829 and 1878-1945. Composed of the historical region East Prussia, the province's capital was Kaliningrad....
.

Voivodes

The Voivode of Trakai was one of the most important state offices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They were appointed from prominent magnate families and competed only with voivode of Vilnius and Grand Chancellors

Kanclerz

Kanclerz was one of the highest Offices in the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth in the historic Poland. His office functioned from the early History of Poland of the 12th century until the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795....
for power and prestige. Voivodes were the ex officio members of the Lithuanian Council of Lords

Lithuanian Council of Lords

The Lithuanian Council of Lords was the main permanent institution of central government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania active in its capital city of Vilnius....
. Voivodes had their residence in Trakai

Trakai

Trakai Peninsula Castle

Trakai Peninsula Castle is in Trakai, Lithuania. The castle was built in the 14th century by Kestutis, the Duke of Lithuania in the peninsula of the southern shore of Lake Galve....
.

List of voivodes

* Jonas Goštautas

Jonas Goštautas

Jonas Gostautas or Go?tautas was the nobleman from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and a progenitor of the Go?tautai noble family. Served as Chancellor of Lithuania between 1443 and 1458 and was de facto ruler of Lithuania for around twenty years....
(1440)

Radvila Astikas
Radvila Astikas

Radvila Astikas or Radvila Astikaitis was a Lithuania magnate, a member of the Astikai family of Vilnius. He was one of the most influential people in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was a member of the Lithuanian Council of Lords and was even credited as a pretender to its throne instead of Casimir Jagiellon....
(1466–1477)
Martynas Goštautas
Martynas Goštautas

Martynas Go?tautas was a nobleman from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of Go?tautai family. He has been the Grand Marshal of Lithuania, Nowogr?dek Voivodeship , first Voivode of Kiev and Voivode of Trakai ....
(1480–1483)
Albrecht Goštautas
Albrecht Goštautas

Albrecht Go?tautas - was a Lithuanian nobility of the Go?tautai family from ethnic Lithuanians lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Nowogr?dek Voivodeship since 1508, Voivode of Polotsk since 1514, Voivode of Trakai since 1519 and Voivode of Vilnius since 1522....
(1519–1522)
Stanislovas Goštautas
Stanislovas Goštautas

Stanislovas Go?tautas was a notable member of the Lithuanian nobility and a high-ranking member of the Lithuanian administration. Born to Albrecht Go?tautas, the Voivode of Vilnius and Princess Sofia of Vereya, he was the last direct male descendant of the - once mighty - Go?tautai family....
(1542)
Mikolaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwill (1590–1604)
Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz
Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz

Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz was a great Lithuanian writer . He held numerous political offices, including voivode of Mscislaw , voivode of Trakai and voivode of Vilnius , as well as starost Braslawski, Jurbarkas, and Nowodworski in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
(1626–1640)
Piotr Pac
Piotr Pac

Piotr Pac was a szlachcic-Lithuanian nobility, Offices in the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1613, Lithuanian Court Treasurer from 1635, Trakai voivodeship ....
(X 1640–VII 1642)
Mikolaj Abramowicz
Mikolaj Abramowicz

Mikolaj Abramowicz or Abrahamowicz was a History of Poland –History of Lithuania#Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble who was one of the leading military and diplomatic figures of his period....
(1647–1651?)
Marcjan Oginski (since 1670)
Tadeusz Franciszek Oginski
Tadeusz Franciszek Oginski

Prince Tadeusz Franciszek Andrzej Oginski was a Poland-Lithuanian szlachcic.He was Grand Clerk of Lithuania since 1737, castellan of Trakai since 1744, Trakai Voivodeship since 1770, starost oszmianski, wierzbowski and przewalski....
(1770–1783)
Józef Mikolaj Radziwill
Józef Mikolaj Radziwill

Prince J?zef Mikolaj Radziwill was a Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth noble .The 8th Ordynat of Kleck, Grand Clerk of Lithuania since 1764, voivode of Minsk Voivodship since 1773, castellan of Trakai since 1784, voivode of Trakai Voivodship since 1788 and Knight of Malta....
(since 1788)