Stanislovas Goštautas
[Lietuvos dailės muziejus]
(also called Stanisław Gasztołd or ''Gasztołt'' of
Abdank in Polish) (ca. 1507 in
Vilnius
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– 1542) was a member of the
Lithuanian nobility and a high-ranking member of the Lithuanian administration. Born to
Albertas Goštautas, the
Voivode of Vilnius and Princess Sofia of
Vereya, he was the last direct male descendant of the – once mighty –
Goštautai family.
A prominent member of the Grand Duchy's administration in the early times of the
Polish–Lithuanian union, 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
Trakai. 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
Prague groschen'' in exchange for his town of
Upytė, which was bought by
Sigismund Augustus of Poland.
On 17 May 1537 he married
Barbara Radziwiłł, later the second wife of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland
Sigismund II Augustus. 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
Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus, as a matter of sovereign's right.
References
Stanislovas
1542 deaths
Year of birth unknown
16th-century Lithuanian nobility
Voivodes of Trakai
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