Janusz Kiszka Janusz Kiszka (born 1600 in Krzywicze [ 1] Polish [ 2] magnate in the 17th century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . Last of the Kiszka family . Royal Rotmistrz , starosta of Parnawa from 1610, Voivode of Polock since 1621, Field Lithuanian Hetman since 1635, Great Lithuanian Hetman since 1646.[ 3]
Raised a Calvinist, he converted with his father and brothers to Roman Catholicism in 1606. Unlike his siblings, he was quite tolerant of his former co-religionists, also because his wife was a Calvinist too.
He married Krystyna Drucka-Sokolińska , and had no heirs.
Coat of arms of Dąbrowa
References
^ Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J., t. V, Lipsk 1840, s. 103.
^ T. Wasilewski, Janusz Kiszka [w:] Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XII, 1966-1967, s. 508-510.
^ T. Wasilewski, Janusz Kiszka [w:] Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XII, 1966-1967, s. 508-510.
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