Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku

Armenians and Noble Status in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-16th Centuries Armenians living in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania were mostly burghers, however, cases of social advancement were noted on Ruthenian territory officially belonging to the Crown. Initia...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a78fec6c31d541659134da8d62c9aa632021-11-27T12:57:29ZMilites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku10.12797/LH.05.2018.05.022082-61842449-870Xhttps://doaj.org/article/a78fec6c31d541659134da8d62c9aa632019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/lehahayer/article/view/654https://doaj.org/toc/2082-6184https://doaj.org/toc/2449-870X Armenians and Noble Status in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-16th Centuries Armenians living in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania were mostly burghers, however, cases of social advancement were noted on Ruthenian territory officially belonging to the Crown. Initially, the advancement was possible only for royal court-based Armenian translators, but later also for those with merits for the country’s defence. Another way to advance socially was to marry a Polish nobleman. In such marriages religious differences rarely posed a serious problem; generally, females did not need to convert from their Christian Armenian denomination. Nevertheless, ennoblement was rarely attractive for Polish Armenians at that time; trade and other typically burgher activities brought more profit than the landownership privilege. For this reason ennobled men and their descendants often took on those activities anyway and pleaded their noble status only to escape inconvenient legal consequences or town court. A few Polish noble families of Armenian origin are dated back to that time: the Tyszkiewicz, the Siekierzyński, the Balicki, the Zwartowski, the Sołtanowicz-Chalepski, the Lenkowicz-Ipohorski, the Iwaszkiewicz, the Makarowicz, the Domażyrski, the Pleszkowski. Krzysztof StopkaKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleArmeniansnobilitysocial advancementinter-religious marriagesPolandLithuaniaHistory of PolandDK4010-4800Human settlements. CommunitiesHT51-65ENFRPLLehahayer, Vol 5 (2019)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
PL
topic Armenians
nobility
social advancement
inter-religious marriages
Poland
Lithuania
History of Poland
DK4010-4800
Human settlements. Communities
HT51-65
spellingShingle Armenians
nobility
social advancement
inter-religious marriages
Poland
Lithuania
History of Poland
DK4010-4800
Human settlements. Communities
HT51-65
Krzysztof Stopka
Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
description Armenians and Noble Status in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-16th Centuries Armenians living in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania were mostly burghers, however, cases of social advancement were noted on Ruthenian territory officially belonging to the Crown. Initially, the advancement was possible only for royal court-based Armenian translators, but later also for those with merits for the country’s defence. Another way to advance socially was to marry a Polish nobleman. In such marriages religious differences rarely posed a serious problem; generally, females did not need to convert from their Christian Armenian denomination. Nevertheless, ennoblement was rarely attractive for Polish Armenians at that time; trade and other typically burgher activities brought more profit than the landownership privilege. For this reason ennobled men and their descendants often took on those activities anyway and pleaded their noble status only to escape inconvenient legal consequences or town court. A few Polish noble families of Armenian origin are dated back to that time: the Tyszkiewicz, the Siekierzyński, the Balicki, the Zwartowski, the Sołtanowicz-Chalepski, the Lenkowicz-Ipohorski, the Iwaszkiewicz, the Makarowicz, the Domażyrski, the Pleszkowski.
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author Krzysztof Stopka
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title Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
title_short Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
title_full Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
title_fullStr Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
title_full_unstemmed Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku
title_sort milites et nobiles: ormianie a stan szlachecki królestwa polskiego i wielkiego księstwa litewskiego od xiv do xvi wieku
publisher Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
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