Woroniecki
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.
Personalities
- Adam Woroniecki (1799–1863), landlord, general in the Russian army and aristocratic marshal of Lublin County.
- Henryk Jeremi Prince Korybut-Woroniecki (1891–1941), Polish consul general in the Allenstein voting area and consul in Königsberg Pr.
- Jacek Woroniecki (1878–1949), Dominican and founder of the order.
- Jeremi Woroniecki (1804–1877), landlord, writer and scholar.
- Józef Woroniecki (around 1807–1885), Austrian officer, participant in the November uprising in Poland 1830/31, in the Hungarian army during the uprising of 1848/49, later an officer in the Turkish army.
- Lucjan Woroniecki (1806–1875), officer in the November uprising in Poland 1830/31 and medal of the Virtuti Militari .
- Michał Woroniecki (1860–1928), industrialist.
- Teresa Woroniecka (1927–1995), singer.
- Wincenty Woroniecki (around 1780–1826), cavalry colonel of the Polish Duchy of Warsaw and medal of the Virtuti Militari .
literature
- Kaspar Niesiecki , "Herbarz Polski" 1839–1845
- Adam Boniecki , "Poczet rodów w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim w XV i XVI w." (1887)
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Woroniecki, the princes . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, p. 121 ( digitized version ).
- Tobiasz, Wieslaw Adam "Almanach Blektitny", Institute for Genealogy 2008