Chodkiewicz

Chodkiewicz
Current regionPoland, Belarus and Lithuania
Place of originGrand Duchy of Lithuania
MembersAleksander Chodkiewicz
Grzegorz Chodkiewicz
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Krzysztof Chodkiewicz
Supraśl Monastery founded by Aleksander Chodkiewicz

The House of Chodkiewicz (Belarusian: Хадкевіч; Lithuanian: Chodkevičius) was one of the most influential noble families of Lithuanian-Ruthenian descent within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th century.[1]

  1. ^ Chester S. L. Dunning, Caryl Emerson, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, The Uncensored Boris Godunov, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007, SBN 0299207641, Google Print, p. 498