The Grodno (Hrodna) Castle Court in the Vasa Period (1587–1668): The State of Research and Sources Cover Image

Sąd grodzki grodzieński za czasów Wazów (1587–1668): stan badań i źródła
The Grodno (Hrodna) Castle Court in the Vasa Period (1587–1668): The State of Research and Sources

Author(s): Alaksiej Šałanda
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Grodno castle court; Third Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1588; castle court sessions (roczki); castle court chancellery and archive; court of compositi iudicii;

Summary/Abstract: The article – based on a collection of sources preserved in the archives of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland – presents the following problems of the Grodno castle court proceedings: the judicial process based on the Third Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of 1588, the causes of irregular castle court sessions (roczki), the composition and the careers of Grodno castle court officials, the problem of financing of the castle starosts, the creation and functioning of a castle court chancellery and archive, the participation of local castle court officials in the so-called hooded courts (sądy kapturowe) in 1634, 1648, and 1668, the operation of the extraordinary court of compositi iudicii in 1658 under the Muscovite occupation, the resumption of the castle court activity after the liberation of Grodno (Hrodna) and its district (powiat) from the Muscovite army in 1661.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 47-80
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Polish