Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz ( lt, Jonušas Skuminas Tiškevičius) (1570–1642) was a

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of the

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, a politician, a sponsor of

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music and a writer (1610+). He held numerous political offices, including voivode of Mścisław (1621–1626),

voivode of Trakai lt, Trakų vaivadija pl, Województwo trockie , conventional_long_name = Trakai Voivodeship , common_name = Trakai , subdivision = Voivodeship , nation = Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1413–1569) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) , year_ ...

(1626–1640) and voivode of

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(1640–1642), as well as starost of

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ski,

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, and

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in the

. The son of Teodor Tyszkiewicz and Katarzyna Lacka, he was of the

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faith, and studied abroad at

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. Around 1595 he married Barbara Naruszewicz (1580–1627), the daughter of Stanisław Naruszewicz. He had one daughter: Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz. After his first wife died, in 1630 he married Zofia Zamiechowska (d. 1635). In 1619 he donated some of his possessions in Hrodno to the nuns of

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Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1570 births 1642 deaths Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Janusz Skumin Voivode of Vilnius Voivodes of Trakai {{Lithuania-noble-stub

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