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Olbracht Gasztołd

ID: OS-007416-P/150139

Olbracht Gasztołd

First name:

Olbracht

Last Name:

Gasztołd

Crest:

Abdank

Date of birth:

1470

Date of death:

1539

Age:

69

Profession:

governor, starost

Biography:

Olbracht Gasztold (1740-1539), Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Voivode of Vilnius, Troki, Polotsk and Novgorod. Starosta of Bielsk and Mozyrsk, Governor of Novgorod and Count of the Holy Roman Empire. The richest man in Lithuania. Participated in battles against the Tatars and in the Battle of Orsha. He competed with the Radziwills for supremacy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Opponent of the union with the Kingdom of Poland.

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