Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski ''de armis'' Ślepowron (1669 – 23 June 1744) – Bishop of Smolensk on 29 January 1725, Lithuanian Great (Clergyman) Quartermaster in 1720,

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and

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, Vicar of Onikszty. Contrary to what numerous studies say he wasn't a son of the Lithuanian Field Commander

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and Magdalena Konopacka, but of general of Lithuanian artillery Maciej Korwin Gosiewski and Małgorzata Szwab. During the Lithuanian Civil War (1700) he supported the opponents to almighty

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. In 1722 became

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and

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of Achantus. In 1723, the chapter elected him as ruler of the

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, and in 1725, became Bishop of

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. In 1729, as one of the leaders of the opposition in the

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against

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, which was organizing by the French Ambassador in Poland, Antoine-Felix Marquis of Monti, who promoted to the throne

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. Under the agreement, France would pay 60 thousand pounds for each subsequent rupture of the

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for the life of Augustus II. At the same time, together with Lithuanian opponents to the Wettin king, seek the Russian support against the absolutist aspirations of Augustus II. Gosiewski, embittered by the lack of nominations for the

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, was the protagonist of a scandal in custom, when in 1730, at a banquet, at which were present the entire chapter he threw glass and bottle to the new bishop of Vilnius, Michael Zienkowicz. In 1730, the Marquis of Monti (through Gosiewski) broke the parliament in

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. In 1732, in the same way Gosiewski broke the parliament in

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, getting the sum of money from the French Embassy (60 thousand pounds). For the same reasons the Russian ambassador Friedrich Casimir Count von Löwenwolde paid him and Antoni Kazimierz Sapieha 1000

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. Gosiewski himself also got 4 couples of zibeline martens and 100 gold coins.

Family

Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski came from the Ślepowron branch of the family.

Sources

Bishop Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski
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