Baltazar Wilga Godzimirski – ostatni komisarz kozacki Rzeczypospolitej (1692–1699)
Baltazar Wilga Godzimirski – the Last Cossack Commissioner of the Commonwealth (1692–1699)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the career and military achievements of the Commonwealth’s last Cossack commissioner, a distinguished officer of the Crown army in the reign of Jan III Sobieski. In the 1670s Baltazar Wilga served as a towarzysz (knight bachelor) of the cavalry, and in the years 1683–1708 he was a rotmistrz (captain), colonel and regimentary. From 1692 to 1699 he was the last royal commissioner to supervise the Cossack communities in the Kyivan Polesie. He died in 1708, leaving three sons born to his marriage with Katarzyna Łaskówna – officials and gentry men active in the first half of the 18th century.

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