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Z badań nad prokreacją magnaterii Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w XVI–XVIII wieku

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Liedke M.

Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

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2010

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vol. 29

7-27

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The text presents the initial results of research on the demography of magnates in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The author analysed three families: the Radziwiłł, Sanguszko and Chodkiewicz families. She studied the duration of marriages, the number of children in the marriages, the age of male representatives of the families when they married, as well as the age of the women they married. The study was based on published sources, manuscripts, genealogy works, family monographs and biographies. In these three families men married when they were on average slightly over 33 years old; the average age at first marriage was 27 years and at remarriage — about 39 years. Women married at the average age of 20; the average age at first marriage was over 19 years and at second — 23 years. Marriages (114 total) lasted on average 14.2 years; they were shorter in the 16th and the 17th century (about 12 years) and longer in the 18th century (about 18 years). First marriages (80 total) lasted on average 15.5 years (median: 12 years), and second — 11 years (median: 8 years). In all marriages the average number of children was 2.8 children per couple (median: 2), and the number of children surviving to adulthood was 2 per couple. The average number of children in first marriages was higher than in remarriages. Almost three-fourths of children surviving to adulthood were born in first marriages. About half of remarriages were childless. Judging by the results of these three families, fewer children were born to the magnates than to other social groups, but the survival rate of magnate children (71%) was higher than that of children in other groups. Taking into account the survival rate of male descendants, we can see that there was no complete generation renewal in these three families.

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Współpracownicy Izabeli Branickiej w latach 1771–1808

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Kulesza‑Woroniecka I.

Studia Podlaskie

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2012

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vol. 20

155-174

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Izabela Branicka’s manor-house during the time of her independent administration was a workplace for people deriving from diferent social environments and groups. Her closest associates were undoubtedly top clerks in the court hierarchy. She particularly appreciated cooperation with treasurer Wojciech Matuszewicz and personal assistant Jakub Popławski. Both Matuszewicz and Popławski were long-standing and tested employees who, irrespective of anything, were always loyally standing at their employer’s side. Another equally significant feature of Izabela Branicka as an employer was a sense of responsibility for her subordinates. In the face of personal misfortunes, old age or sickness, I. Branicka took responsibility for her subordinates and tried within her power to help them in everyday drudgery. And just this attitude caused that her associates were usually loyal people and tried to do everything they could to earn their wealthy patron’s grace in as honest as possible way.

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Przyczynki do imiennictwa magnaterii czasów saskich (na marginesie „Diariusza” księcia „Rybeńki”

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Strycharska-Brzezina M.

Onomastica

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2008-2009

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vol. 53

51–64

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The subject of the article is the analysis of the names of the family branch whose protoplast was the Republic’s wealthiest magnate in the time of the Saxons — Prince Michael Casimir Radziwill “Rybenko” (1702–1762). The article’s material base is the extensive Diary kept by Radziwill himself. On the basis of reading the Diary, one can state that the Prince appreciated the cultural aspects of naming. The use of many names (going so far as giving six baptismal names and four confirmation names) — independently from the intention of assuring the protection of a large number of patron saints — comprises one of the indicators of the family’s prestige. The characteristic repetition of selected names upholds family tradition and strengthens bonds with the closest relatives. The sophisticated names confirm membership in a superior, cosmopolitan culture. The Diary confirms the existence of a custom of celebrating a different kind of name day (the day of the patron of the first name as well as the octave of that day, the days of additional baptismal patrons; the days of patrons given at confirmation), accompanied by the custom of celebrating birthdays. The previously mentioned ceremonies intensified the popularity of the clan and social memory of the names of the Radziwills.

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Z badań nad prokreacją magnaterii Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w XVI–XVIII wieku

Współpracownicy Izabeli Branickiej w latach 1771–1808

Przyczynki do imiennictwa magnaterii czasów saskich (na marginesie „Diariusza” księcia „Rybeńki”