Martynas Goštautas ( pl, Marcin Janowicz Gas(z)tołd, links=no or ''Marcin Gasztołdowicz''; uk, Га́штовт Марти́н Іва́нович, links=no; 1428,

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– c. 1483, Vilnius) was a nobleman from the

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of the

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family. He was the

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, Voivode of Navahrudak (1464–1471), first

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(1471–1475) and

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(1480–1483). He was a servant to King

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, and was a founder of

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monastery and the Dominican monastery and church in

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. Residents of

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resented the appointment of a

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as voivode and refused to let him in. Kronika Polska, Litewska, Źmódzka i wszystkiej Rusi Mocieja Stryjkowskiego. Warszawa, 1846. T. 2. S. 272; Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Lwów, 1888. T. 5. S. 224. In exchange, Kiev acquired the status of a voivodeship, equal to that of

and

and the subsequent voivodes were

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nobles. Martynas was a son of

Jonas Goštautas Jonas Gostautas or Goštautas ( pl, Jan Gasztołd; c. 1383 in Geranainys – 1 September 1458 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian nobleman from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the Gasztołd (Goštautai) noble family, a politician and skillful lan ...

, carrying his first name as a

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, and father of

Albertas Goštautas Albertas Goštautas ( la, Albertus Gastold, links=no, pl, Olbracht Gasztołd, links=no, Belarusian/Ukrainian: ''Альберт Гаштольд'') ( – 1539) was a Lithuanian noble of the Goštautai family from ethnic Lithuanian lands of the Gr ...

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1428 births 1480s deaths Year of death uncertain Politicians from Vilnius Clan Abdank Ruthenian nobility Martynas 15th-century Lithuanian people Grand Marshals of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Voivodes of Trakai {{Lithuania-noble-stub