Michał Wielhorski h.
Kierdeja (c. 1730 – 1794) was a Polish
noble
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, official, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the
Lithuanian Master of the Kitchen in the years 1763–1774, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster in 1758–1762,
[Urzędnicy centralni i dostojnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego XIV-XVIII w. Spisy, oprac. H. Luiewicz, A Rachuba, Kórnik 1994, s. 248.] starost
Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', ) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.
The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...
and envoy of the
Bar Confederation
The Bar Confederation (; 1768–1772) was an association of Polish nobles (''szlachta'') formed at the fortress of Bar, Ukraine, Bar in Podolia (now Ukraine), in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian C ...
to France.
Family
He married Elżbieta Ogińska and was the father of three sons.
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Michał Wielhorski (1755–1805), general, husband of Celina Przeuska h.
Sulima and Aleksandra Kurdwanowska h.
Półkozic
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Jerzy Wielhorski (1755–1809),
field clerk of Lithuania
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Józef Wielhorski
Józef Wielhorski (1759–1817) was a Polish General officer, general.
As an officer (rotmistrz) he fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and later, as a colonel, in the Kościuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kościuszko sent him to revolutionary F ...
(1759–1817), general
Bibliography
1730s births
1794 deaths
Bar confederates
18th-century Polish nobility
Diplomats of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Government officials of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Michal
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Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
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