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The princely houses of Poland and Lithuania differed from other
princely house A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...
s in Europe. Most importantly,
Polish nobility The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
(''szlachta'') could not be granted nobility
titles A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may be inserted between the f ...
by the Polish kings in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Therefore, the title of '' prince'' either dated to the times before the Union of Lublin, which created the Commonwealth in 1569, or was granted to some nobles (usually
magnate The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...
s) by foreign kings. Due to the longstanding history of common statehood, some noble families often described as "Polish" actually originated in Grand Duchy of Lithuania and are of
Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Lithuanians * Lithuanian language * The country of Lithuania * Grand Duchy of Lithuania * Culture of Lithuania * Lithuanian cuisine * Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...
or Ruthenian descent. Some houses are more correctly described as being of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.


Kingdom of Poland


Duchy of Pomerania


Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth


Old Lithuanian

Gediminid The House of Gediminid or simply the Gediminids ( lt, Gediminaičiai, sgs, Gedėmėnātē, be, Гедзімінавічы, pl, Giedyminowicze, uk, Гедиміновичі;) were a dynasty of monarchs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reig ...
and Ruthenian (Rurikid) Princely Houses


Princely Houses with Tatar origin

These princely houses lived like average rich nobility, but sometimes part of these lived like peasants.http://www.genpol.com/module-subjects-printpage-pageid-37-scope-all.html * Ahmetowicz * Achmetowicz * Adamowicz * Aksak, Axak * Apanowicz-Białobłocki * Assanczukowicz * Assanowicz * Bahryński * Bartoszewicz * Begimowicz * Berbasz * Bierbasz * Birbasz * Bohdanowicz * Bułhak * Chazbiejewicz * Dawidowicz * Fursowicz * Gliński * Grocholski * Haraburda * Jachicz * Juchowski * Jurewicz * Juszyński * Kadyszewicz Kejdysz * Kambułatowicz * Karaczewicz * Kasymowicz * Kieński * Kiński * Kordysz * Korycki * Korzon * Kotłubaj * Kryczyński * Lebiedziewski * Lipski * Łostajski * Łowczycki * Malibakszycz * Maluszycki * Małyszycki * Maślakiewicz * Minbułatowicz * Najman-Kadyszewicz * Niekraszewicz * Nowosielski * Obulewicz * Okęcki * Ostryński * Petyhorski * Piotrowski * Puński * Rodkiewicz-Szpakowski * Rudnicki * Sayna-Kryczyński * Siehdziński * Skirmunt * Smólski * Sołtan * Starzyński * Sulimanowicz * Sulkiewicz * Szymkowicz * Szyryński * Talkowski * Tarak-Buczacki * Taraszewski * Tuhan-Baranowski * Ułan * Ułan-Maluszycki * Waliła-Łowczycki * Zawacki * Zackiewicz-Sulimanowicz


Princely titles granted by foreign monarchs


Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)


See also

*
List of Polish rulers Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electable position in Europe (16t ...
* List of szlachta * List of Polish titled nobility * Magnates of Poland and Lithuania


References


Further reading

* Konarski S., 1958, Armorial de la noblesse polonaise titrée, Paris. * Kowalski M., 2007, Księstwa w przestrzeni politycznej I Rzeczpospolitej, :I. Kiniorska, S. Sala (red.), Rola geografii społeczno-ekonomicznej w badaniach regionalnych, Instytut Geografii AŚ, PTG, Kielce, 2007, s. 177-186. * Leitgeber S., 1993, Nowy Almanach Błękitny, Oficyna Wydawnicza „Audiutor”, Poznań-Warszawa. * Olszewski H., 1969, Ustrój polityczny Rzeczpospolitej (w:) Tazbir J. (red.), Polska XVII wieku – państwo, społeczeństwo, kultura. Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, s. 52-83 * Niesiecki K., Herbarz Polski (Polish Armorial) full title: "Korona Polska przy złotey wolnosci starożytnemi Rycerstwa Polskiego y Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego kleynotami naywyższymi Honorami Heroicznym, Męstwem y odwagą, Wytworną Nauką a naypierwey Cnotą, nauką Pobożnością, y Swiątobliwością ozdobiona Potomnym zaś wiekom na zaszczyt y nieśmiertelną sławę Pamiętnych w tey Oyczyźnie Synow podana TOM ... Przez X. Kaspra Niesieckego Societatis Jesu", Lwów, 1738. ** "Korona Polska..." vol. 1 ** "Korona Polska..." vol. 2 ** "Korona Polska..." vol. 3 ** "Korona Polska..." vol. 4 Edition expanded by other authors: Herbarz Polski... vol. 4-10, published by Jan Nepomucen de Bobrowicz, Leipzig, 1841 * Jasienica P., Myśli o dawnej Polsce, Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1990, {{ISBN, 83-07-01957-5, OCLC 69526168 * Klubówna A., Królowa Jadwiga. Warszawa 1986 * Tęgowski J., Krąg rodzinny Jarosława Bogorii (w:) Genealogia – polska elita polityczna na tle porównawczym, Toruń 1993