Definition of Starosts. Meaning of Starosts. Synonyms of Starosts

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Definition of Starosts

Starost
Starost Star"ost, n. [Pol. starosta, from stary old.] A nobleman who possessed a starosty. [Poland]

Meaning of Starosts from wikipedia

- the sobriquet, magnates. There were also general starosts who were provincial governors. All starosts disappeared after the Kosciuszko Insurrection in...
- 1558) Starost of Sanok (1553–1558), HGMG Jan Herburt (1524–1578) Castellan of Sanok (1572, 1573), HGMG Stanisław Bonifacy Mniszech (1580–1644) Starost of...
- issued a privilege to the Eldership of Samogitia to elects its own elder (starost) in 1441. Because of its prolonged wars with the Teutonic Order, Samogitia...
- modern times it was a centre for the wine trade and the seat of local starosts, most notably John III Sobieski, who was elected King of Poland. Gniew...
- a Lithuanian–Polish nobleman. Mikołaj became Podstoli of Lithuania and starost of Człuchów. He was the son of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Anna Katarzyna...
- Krajczy of the Crown from 1776 to 1780, Rotmistrz of a Husar Choragiew, starost of Leżajsk and Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 1769...
- he held the title of stolnik of Lublin. From 1659 to 1661 he served as starost of Małogoszcz. He was the great-grandson of the poet Mikołaj Rej. M. Rawita-Witanowski...
- part of the Lwow Land, Ruthenian Voivodeship. The following men were the starosts in Kamianka: Piotr Zborowski (in 1513) – he was also the voivode in Kraków...
- the Crown from 1581. Zamoyski was the General Starost of the city of Kraków from 1580 to 1585, Starost of Bełz, Międzyrzecz, Krzeszów, Knyszyn and Tartu...
- Prince Jan Kazimierz Lubomirski (1692–1737) was a Polish szlachcic. He was starost of Bolimów, owner of Głogów and Robotycze. "Jan Kazimierz Lubomirski"....