Lietuvos istorijos institutas

Based on genealogical data, the article investigates the marriage policy of the Gorski family (Nałęcz coat of arms) from its establishment in Samogitia in the second half of the sixteenth century to its rise in the first half of the eighteenth century. First, a general portrait of the

The Battle of Jurbarkas of 1698 was the first significant battle of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. The army loyal to the republicans and the detachments hired by the nobles of some districts fought against the part of the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania loyal to the Sapieha, and the Tatars. The Sapieha won the battle, but after this victory the republicans became even more active.