Mikołaj Wejher
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Mikołaj Wejher (died 1647) was a Polish nobleman from the prominent Wejher family. He was the son of
Jan Wejher Jan Wejher (1580–1626) was a Polish nobleman, son of Ernest Wejher and Anna Mortęska. He held many offices and was an officer of the army in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a courtier of the Polish king Sigismund III from the age of th ...
and Anna Szczawińska. He held various offices in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...
. He was Voivode of Malbork since 1641 and Voivode of Chełmno since 1643. Mikołaj was also
starost The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...
of Radzyń and Kowalewo. Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1647 deaths People from Royal Prussia 17th-century Polish nobility Year of birth unknown
Mikołaj Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of sou ...
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