Archival materials concerning princes Trubecki in the fonds Warsaw Archives of the Radziwiłł Family – origins and typology

Abstract

The presented article is aimed at introducing materials concerning the history of the Trubecki family stored in the fonds Warsaw Archives of the Radziwiłł Family. Those materials can be divided into two groups. The first group consists of information on three successive representatives of the family who settled on the territory of the Republic in the 17th century (Jurij Nikiticz, Piotr Wigant and Jerzy Trubecki); this part is a result of their documenting activity. The second group of materials on the history of this family stored in the Central Archives of Historical Records has been collected on account of the problem of paying “the Trubeck sums” (Polish “sumy trubeckie”) – compensation for making over Trubeck to Moscow by the Republic. Attempts to settling it were made by Piotr Wigant Trubecki’s widow, Halszka Drucka-Sokolińska with her second husband Krzysztof Wołodkowicz, and after her death – by Wołodkowicz himself, who became a heir of the adjudged sum as a result of a trip of Jerzy Trubecki’s stepson to Moscow in 1657.

The article is an attempt to establish a route the documents used to get to the Central Archives of Historical Records. Thanks to that a hypothesis was drawn, that a creator of the mentioned documents collection was a voivode of Mińsk Krzysztof Wołodkowicz, and their transmission to the Radzwiłł Family’s Archives was made due to family connections. A heir of Wołodkowicz was Aleksander Hilary Połubiński, and then these documents, with his daughter Anna Marianna’s hand in marriage, became a property of the Radziwiłł Family’s younger line from Kleck. Also an attempt of systematization of the archival materials was made, and these were divided into private documents, legal and possessions documents, administrative and economic documents, public activity documents and varia.