Woroniecki

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Coat of arms of the Voroniecki princes

The princes Korybut Woroniecki are a Polish and Ukrainian noble family.

The Korybut Woroniecki family belongs to the ancient Polish nobility. They are an old Polish-Ukrainian aristocratic family, the line of which begins with Prince Wasyl von Zbaraz in the 15th century. Furthermore, they derive their descent from the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas in the 14th century. The Korybut Woroniecki family belonged to the higher Polish nobility, which provided the senators, voivodes, palatins, starosts, castellans and ministers of the country. The princely title was confirmed in the Kingdom of Poland in 1821 and in St. Petersburg in 1844.

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