Stanislovas GoštautasLietuvos dailės muziejus

(also called Stanisław Gasztołd or ''Gasztołt'' of

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in Polish) (ca. 1507 in

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– 1542) was a member of the

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and a high-ranking member of the Lithuanian administration. Born to

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, the

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and Princess Sofia of

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, he was the last direct male descendant of the – once mighty –

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family. A prominent member of the Grand Duchy's administration in the early times of the

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, Goštautas held a number of important posts in the state's administration. Among others, since 1522 he held the post of the voivode of Navahrudak, although he did not rise to that office until 1530. Since 1542 he was also a voivode of

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. As one of the most notable and influential noblemen of his epoch, in 1542 he was also awarded with a royal pension of ''600 times the number of 60

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'' in exchange for his town of

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, which was bought by

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. On 17 May 1537 he married

Barbara Radziwiłł Barbara Radziwiłł ( pl, Barbara Radziwiłłówna, lt, Barbora Radvilaitė; 6 December 1520/23 – 8 May 1551) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as consort of Sigismund II Augustus, the last male monarch of the Jagiellon dynas ...

, later the second wife of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland

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. Goštautas died on 18 December 1542, leaving some of his family fortune to his wife, who later might have passed it on to her branch of the Radziwiłł family, while the bulk of his estates was taken by the

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, as a matter of sovereign's right.

References

Stanislovas 1542 deaths Year of birth unknown 16th-century Lithuanian people Voivodes of Trakai {{Lithuania-noble-stub