Pochodzenie Fiodora Nieświckiego w świetle badań genetycznych
Journal Title: Przegląd Wschodni - Year 2016, Vol 14, Issue 53
Abstract
To date, the lineages of many royal families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have not been sufficiently studied. This also pertains to a number of dynasties connected to Volhynia. This includes the Zbaraski house, which later split into four main lines: Zbaraski, Wiśniowiecki, Porycki and Woroniecki. The head of one of them was Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, the last member of the local dynasty and later, ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The protoplast of these houses was Fedka (Fiodor) Nieświcki and very little is known about his lineage. It is a matter of some discussion whether or not the Zbaraskis descended from Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania. While some researchers bow to family tradition and cite Gediminas as their ancestor, most researchers identify Fiodor Korybutowicz, the son of Kaributas and grandson of Olgierd Gedyminowicz, as the ancestor of Fedka Nieświcki. Further indication of this includes the family coat of arms: “Korybut”. The discovery of new historical evidence is unlikely and thus genetic testing may hold the key to unlocking this mystery. Andrzej Bajor was the first to conduct such testing on the Rurik and Gediminas dynasties. His experience and that of other such researchers appears to indicate that the combination of genetic testing with information from existing source materials can shed new light on the ancestry of many families, including the Zbararskis. As the author is not a specialist in the area of genetics, in the area of the Rurik dynasty’s mutual blood kinship, he bases his article on the conclusions of other researchers. The cited specialists focused their attentions on general descriptions of their results and identifying relations between living descendants. The article’s focal point concerns the ancestry of the Nieświcki house, supplementing the results of genetic testing with arguments from other areas of research, especially heraldry and sigillography. The posed research hypothesis is that the Nieświcki line originates from the Rotislav princes of Smolensk – descendants of Rostislav Mstislavitch, Prince of Smolensk and Grand Prince of Kiev – specifically the alleged Czernichowski (Karczewski) branch of the dynasty.
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Mariusz Kowalski
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