Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1570–1642) was a noble

Szlachta

The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

 of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

, a politician, a sponsor of Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 music and a writer (1610+). He held numerous political offices, including voivode of Mścisław (1621–1626), voivode of Trakai (1626–1640) and voivode of Vilnius

Vilnius

Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

 (1640–1642), as well as starost Brasławski, Jurbarkas

Jurbarkas

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, and Nowodwor

Nowodwór

Nowodwór may refer to the following places:*Nowodwór, Lubartów County in Lublin Voivodeship *Nowodwór, Ryki County in Lublin Voivodeship *Nowodwór, Masovian Voivodeship...

ski in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

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The son of Teodor Tyszkiewicz and Katarzyna Lacka, he was of the Eastern Catholic faith,http://kamunikat.fontel.net/pdf/bzh/22/10.pdf and studied abroad at Padua

Padua

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Around 1595 he married Barbara Naruszewicz (1580–1627), the daughter of Stanisław Naruszewicz. He had one daughter: Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz

Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz

Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz was a Polish noble lady.Katarzyna was the daughter of Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz and Barbara Naruszewicz...

.http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Hnhvc9F3188J:www.bg.us.edu.pl/mariusz/genealogia/rody/tyszkiewiczowie01.html+%22Janusz+Tyszkiewicz%22+wile%C5%84ski&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 After his first wife died, in 1630 he married Zofia Zamiechowska (d. 1635).

In 1619 he donated some of his possessions in Hrodno to the nuns of Order of Saint Benedict

Order of Saint Benedict

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