Mikołaj II Radziwiłł ( lt, Mikalojus Radvila) (1470–1521), nicknamed Amor Poloniae, was a magnate and statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He obtained the title of prince from Emperor

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. He was a son of Mikalojus Radvilaitis and among the first Radziwiłłs to carry this

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. He had brothers

Jerzy Radziwiłł Jerzy Radziwiłł ( lt, Jurgis Radvila; 1480 – April 1541), nicknamed "Herkules", was a Szlachta, Polish–Lithuanian nobleman. He was Podczaszy, Deputy Cup-Bearer of Lithuania from 1510, voivode of Kiev Voivodeship from 1510, Field Hetma ...

Jan Radziwiłł Jan Radziwiłł (1492 most likely in Goniądz – January 1542 in Chochlo) was the Deputy Cup-Bearer of Lithuania and the Elder of Samogitia since 1535 until death. He was a grandson of Mikalojus Radvilaitis and the only son of Mikołaj Radzi ...

and

Wojciech Radziwiłł Wojciech () is a Polish name, equivalent to Czech Vojtěch , Slovak Vojtech, and German Woitke. The name is formed from two components in archaic Polish: * ''wój'' (Slavic: ''voj''), a root pertaining to war. It also forms words like ''wojownik ...

and sister

Anna Radziwiłł Anna Maria Radziwiłł (; 20 April 1939 – 23 January 2009) was a Polish historian, educator, and politician. She was a former member of the Polish Senate and Minister of Education, and was very active in educational reform and the underground ...

. Mikołaj was a progenitor of

Goniądz Goniądz (; lt, Goniondas, german: Gonionds, yi, גאניאנדז, Goniondzh) is a town in Poland, located at the Biebrza river, (pop. 1,915) in Mońki county ('' Powiat of Mońki'') in Podlaskie Voivodeship in northeastern Poland. 80% of the to ...

– Meteliai Radziwiłł family line. He inherited the lands of Musninkai and Kėdainiai. Most of his acquired fortune had been confiscated from Michael Glinski—notably Raigardas,

and Knyszyn. He took part in the second Muscovite–Lithuanian War of 1500–03 and other raids under leadership of

Konstanty Ostrogski Konstanty Iwanowicz Ostrogski (c. 1460 – 10 August 1530; lt, Konstantinas Ostrogiškis; uk, Костянтин Іванович Острозький, translit=Kostiantyn Ivanovych Ostrozkyi; be, Канстантын Іванавіч Ас� ...

. Mikołaj was the

Podczaszy Deputy cup-bearer () was since the 13th century a court office in Poland and later in Lithuania. Deputy cup-bearer was the deputy of the cup-bearer, with the time more important than his superior. Since the 14th–16th century an honorable court ...

from 1505 until 1510, Voivode of Vilnius from 1507 and replaced his father as the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania from 1510. On 25 February 1518 received, as the first member of the family, the princely title from the emperor

, as ''

Reichsfürst Prince of the Holy Roman Empire ( la, princeps imperii, german: Reichsfürst, cf. ''Fürst'') was a title attributed to a hereditary ruler, nobleman or prelate recognised as such by the Holy Roman Emperor. Definition Originally, possessors o ...

'' ("Imperial Prince") of

and Meteliai. Due to his pro-Polish views and arid support for the

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he was nicknamed ''Amor Poloniae'' by his contemporaries. He rivaled

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 ...

for influence in the government of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was the initial editor of the First Statute of Lithuania.

Marriage and issue

Mikołaj married Elźbieta Anna Sakowicz h. Pomian (daughter of the

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Bohdan Sakowicz, who was

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by the Pomian clan) their children were: * Mikołaj Radziwiłł, Bishop of Samogitia *

; married Anna Kostewicz h.

Leliwa Leliwa is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several hundred szlachta families during the existence of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and remains in use today by many of the descendants of these families. The ...

* Zofia Radziwiłł; married

Jan Zabrzeziński Jan Jurjewicz Zabrzeziński or Zaberezhsky (1437 – 2 February 1508) was a noble of Leliwa coat of arms from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, who achieved the height of his influence during the reign of Alexander I Jagiellon (1492–1506). He was ...

* Stanisław Radziwiłł; married Magdalena Boner h. Boner in 1527 in Kraków * Helena Radziwiłł; married Prince Jerzy Olelkowicz Słucki * Elżbieta Radziwiłł; married Prince Iwan Dubrownicki Holszański

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radziwill, Mikolaj 1470 births 1521 deaths Mikolaj Radziwill Grand Chancellors of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Grand Marshals of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Voivode of Vilnius