The Plater family is a noble family originating from

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, whose members settled in Livonia and later in

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and

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. Their original seat was in

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, hence the family's nickname was von dem Broel. The part of the family that moved in 15th century to Livonia used the name Plater or the combined surname Broel-Plater. The Plater-Zyberk branch line was founded by

Michał Plater-Zyberk Michał Plater-Zyberk (28 December, 1777 – 1862, ) – Polish nobleman, naturalist, civilian Vilna Governorate, vice-governor of Vilnius. Biography His parents were and Izabela Borch, daughter of , Great Crown Chancellor. In 1803, he married ...

, who married Izabela Helena Syberg zu Wischling, daughter of , the last male representative of the Syberg family. In order to save his wife's family name, he adopted her surname and coat of arms. The Platers returned to Catholicism in the 17th century and held high offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and achieved magnate status in the 18th century, with six representatives of the family achieveing a seat in the

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. The basis of the family's importance in Polish Livonia was the uninterrupted holding of the post of

starosta 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 ...

in Dyneburg since 1670.

Notable members of the family

* Gotard Jan Plater (d. 1664) – militaryman * Jan Andrzej Plater (1626-1696) – voivode of Livonia * Ferdinand Fabian Plater (1678-1739) – Court Marshal of Lithuania * Jan Ludwik Plater (d. 1736) – voivode of Livonia *

Konstanty Ludwik Plater Konstanty Ludwik Plater ( lt, Konstantinas Liudvikas Pliateris) (1722 – 31 March 1778 in Krāslava), was Castellan of Troki from 1770, voivode of Mstislavl from 1758 to 1770, Castellan of Polotsk from 1754 to 1758, the great Lithuanian Magnus ...

(1722-1778) –

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Mstislavl Mstislaw or Mstislavl ( be, Мсціслаў, [], russian: Мстиславль [msʲtʲɪˈslavlʲ], pl, Mścisław, lt, Mstislavlis) is a town in the Mogilev Region, Eastern Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Mstsislaw District ...

* August Hiacynt Plater (1745-1803) – marshal of the

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* Józef Wincenty Plater (1745-1806) – field notary of Lithuania * Kazimierz Konstanty Plater (1749-1807) – starosta * Jerzy Konstanty Plater (1810-1836) – bibliographer * Ludwik August Plater (1775-1846) – insurgent of the Kościuszko Insurrection * Konstanty Plater (1778-1849) – marshal of nobility * Stanisław Plater (1784-1851) – officer, historian, geographer * Adam Antoni Plater (1790-1862) – landowner,

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, zoologist *

Emilia Plater Countess Emilia Broel-Plater ( lt, Emilija Pliaterytė; 13 November 1806 – 23 December 1831) was a Polish-Lithuanian (adjective), Polish–Lithuanian szlachta, noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitions of Poland, partitione ...

(1806-1831) – officer of the

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* Lucjan Stanisław Plater (1808-1857) –

insurgent *

(1777-1862) – naturalist *

Henryk Ludwik Plater Henryk may refer to: * Henryk (given name) * Henryk, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in south-central Poland * Henryk Glacier, an Antarctic glacier See also * Henryk Batuta hoax, an internet hoax * Henrykian articles, a Polish cons ...

(1817-1868) – clergyman *

Leon Plater Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

(1836-1863) – insurgent of the

January Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...

, executed in Dyneburg *

Władysław Plater Władysław Ewaryst Plater (actually Broel-Plater; Vilnius, 7 November 1808 – 22 April 1889, Broelberg by Kilchberg, near Zurich, Switzerland) was a Polish count, patriot, insurrectionist, and a cousin of Emilia Plater. Together with Agaton Gi ...

(1808-1889) – founder of the Polish National Museum in

Rapperswil Rapperswil ( Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dia ...

Ludwik Kazimierz Plater Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish-Israeli Olympic soccer playe ...

(1844-1909) – landowner, industrialist, economic activist *

Adam Alfred Plater Adam Alfred Gustaw Count Broel-Plater (23 April 1836 – 24 December 1909) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble known as collector and archaeologist. He was also a marshal of nobility of the Vilna Governorate. Biography Adam Alfred Plater was born in ...

(1836-1909) – archaeologist, marshal of the nobility *

Cecylia Plater-Zyberk Cecylia Plater-Zyberk, Plater coat of arms, (born 8 May 1853 in Pass, Poland - died 6 January 1920 in Warsaw) was a social activist, educationalist, publicist and religious. She founded several schools and charitable societies. Life Cecylia ...

(1853-1920) – social activist, educator and publicist. * Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk (1901-1978) – architect *

Kazimierz Plater Kazimierz Plater (Broel-Plater) (3 March 1915, Vilna – 30 April 2004, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master. Born into an aristocratic family in Vilnius, he studied in Warsaw where he won the Warsaw County Chess Championship in 1934. After the Sec ...

(1915-2004) – chess player *

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born December 20, 1950) is a professor at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and an architect and urban planner in Miami, Florida. Plater-Zyberk is considered to be a representative of the New Urbanism scho ...

(b. 1950) – architect and urban planner

Bibliography

* {{Cite journal , last=Wróbel , first=Łukasz , date=2018 , title=Hylzenowie, Platerowie i Tyzenhauzowie. Szlachta inflancka i jej rola w życiu politycznym osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej , trans-title=The Hylzen family, the Plater family and the Tyzenhauz family. The Livonian nobility and its role in the political life of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , journal=Res Gestae , volume=6