Wenden Voivodeship

The Wenden Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wendeńskie ) was a short-lived administrative unit in the Polish-Lithuanian Duchy of Livonia .

Poland-Lithuania 1619

The voivodeship existed from an administrative reform in 1598 to the occupation of the northwestern part of the territory including the capital Wenden (Lat .: Cēsis) by Sweden in 1620. Under international law, these territorial losses were only recognized in 1660 . The remnants of the Wenden Voivodeship went into the Livonia Voivodeship ("Polish Livonia").

Voivodes

With residence Wenden:

Jürgen von Farensbach (1598–1602)
Maciej Demblński
Krzysztof Słuszka

Residence in "Polish Livonia":

Teodor Doenhoff (1620-1622)
Joachim Tarnowski (1627–1641)
Tomasz Sapieha (1641-1643)
Paweł Sapieha
Mikołaj Korft (1656)

literature

Gert von Pistohlkors : German history in Eastern Europe: Baltic countries. Siedler Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-88680-774-6 .
Latvijas vēstures atlants. Rīga: Jāņa sēta, 1998. 16.lpp.


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