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The Radziwiłł family is a directly descended branch of the extinct Lithuanian noble Astikai family line. Its first notable member, Kristinas Astikas (born 1363), a close associate of the Lithuanian ruler Vytautas , became Castellan of Vilnius . [4]
Radziwiłł family, an important Polish–Lithuanian princely family that played a significant role in Polish–Lithuanian history. Prince Mikołaj I (d. 1509) started a long line of Radziwiłł palatines of Wilno (Vilnius) when he was named to that post in 1492; he was chancellor of Lithuania at the same.
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Personal life and death. Lee Radziwill with President John F. Kennedy and other family on Christmas Day 1962 in Palm Beach, Florida. Radziwill was married three times. Her first marriage, in April 1953, was to Michael Temple Canfield, a publishing executive.
On August 27, 1994, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Prince Anthony Radziwiłł, son of socialite Lee Radziwill and nephew of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, married in East Hampton, New York. Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999.
The House of Radziwiłł is a Polish princely family and one of the most powerful magnate family originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later also prominent in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
Feb 28, 2022 · The Radziwiłł family (properly spelled with two ł’s, which makes a w sound, but usually anglicised simply to Radziwill) were major landowners in what is now Ukraine, but they could never be seen as ‘Ukrainian’ princes, in part due to religion: throughout their history they were strong proponents of Catholicism or Calvinism, never ...
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Oct 7, 2019 · In Vilnius, at the National Museum – the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania – a retrospective exhibition has opened on the noble Radziwiłł family, the protagonist of Lithuanian and Polish history from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
