POSITION OF THE NOBILITY OF THE BREST PROVINCE ON THE ISSUE OF ROYAL ELECTIONS IN RECH POSPOLITAYA IN THE YEAR 1733

A. U. Matsuk

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POSITION OF THE NOBILITY OF THE BREST PROVINCE ON THE ISSUE OF ROYAL ELECTIONS IN RECH POSPOLITAYA IN THE YEAR 1733

A. U. Matsuk

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Abstract

Author of the article investigated the position of the Brest voivodship gentry in the choice of the king in 1733. At the Brest pre-election “sejmik” (before Election province assembly), all the nobility splits into two groups due to a conflict of Józef Franciszek Sapieha and Anthony Poсej on the election of «povet» colonel. The nobility groups of Sapiehs and Radzivills, supported Sapieha, but Jan Fryderyk Sapieha and the Czartorysks supported Pocej. This internal conflict has not affected on the position of the Brest voivodship gentry in the problem of the king election. Both groups of Brest gentry sworn to the resolution of The Convocation Sejm. After that, the Election Sejm voted for the election of Stanislaw I Leszczynski as a King.

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Brest gentry, interregnum 1733–1735, Sejm, sejmiks, Stanislaw I Leszczynski, Radzivills, Sapiehs, Czartorysks

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ISSN 2524-2369 (Print)
ISSN 2524-2377 (Online)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Humanitarian Series

POSITION OF THE NOBILITY OF THE BREST PROVINCE ON THE ISSUE OF ROYAL ELECTIONS IN RECH POSPOLITAYA IN THE YEAR 1733

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Humanitarian Series

POSITION OF THE NOBILITY OF THE BREST PROVINCE ON THE ISSUE OF ROYAL ELECTIONS IN RECH POSPOLITAYA IN THE YEAR 1733

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