Balaban (noble family)
Balaban of the coat of arms Korczak (Polish Bałaban h. Korczak , Cyrillic Балабани гербу Корчак ) was a Ruthenian noble family in Poland-Lithuania in the 16th and 17th centuries .
history
The family may have originally come from Albania and settled in the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th century , first in Volhynia , then in Podolia and the area around Bracław . In the 16th century they put two bishops in Lwów and bought land in Galicia . In the 17th century, Alexander Balaban Starost was in Volhynia and Dionysios Balaban was the last metropolitan of Kiev before it was annexed to Russia.
Relatives
- Wasko Balaban, mentioned in 1464 for Stratyn in Galicia
- Arsenios Balaban († 1569), Orthodox Bishop of Lwów and founder of the noble family
- Gedeon Balaban († 1607), his son, Bishop of Lwów
- Isaiah Balaban († 1620), Archimandrite of the Uniejów Monastery and Igumen of the Derman Monastery
- Adam Balaban (17th century), his brother, owner of the village and monastery of Uhornyky in Galicia
- Alexander Balaban († 1437), cousin of Adam and Isaiah Balaban, Starost in Vinnicja and Terebowlja
- Dionysios Balaban († 1667), Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev
Web links
- Bałaban in Genealogia Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (Polish)
Remarks
- ↑ 1676 by Alexander Balaban, cf. Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku . , Gdańsk 2007
- ↑ Bałabanówka in: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów ślowiańskich . T. I, Warszawa 1890, p. 92
- ↑ Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego . T. 12: Najdawniejsze zapiski sądów halickich 1435-1475 . Lwów: Seyfartha i Czajkowskiego, 1887, p. 294 (Latin)