Wojtowicz family

The House of Wojtowicz from Volhynia (plural form: Wojtowiczowie) was a part of the nobility of Poland (the family's roots were probably in the Lithuanian-Ruthenian nobility). The village of Wojtowice of Ostróg County in Volhynia is the nest of this house.[1]

Lubicz coat of arms

Wojtowicz family is sealed with the Lubicz coat of arms.[2]

History

First note about the family comes from 1427 - the son of the knight Wojciech (Wojto vel. Woyto) is written as Wojtowicz. The house was mentioned in 1576 as the Volhynian nobility (while taking part in the coronation parliament of the Polish king, Stephen Báthory).[3] Jan Wojtowicz of Lubicz coat of arms, son of Stefan and Franciszka Załuska, grandson of Stanisław and Teresa Byczkowska, great-grandson of Marcin, proved his nobility in the Łuck County in the territory of Russian partition of Poland in 1803. The Wojtowicz family possessed villages in Volhynia, Podolia, voivodeships: Kiev (Pavoloch), Ruthenian (Wojtowszczyzna, Nienaszow, Draganowa) and Sandomierz (Ulow).

Known members of the family

  • Jan Wojtowicz of Pavoloch (17th c.) - the owner of Pavoloch, a knight in the army of Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki;
  • Marcin Wojtowicz - a hussar in the Crown Army of Felix Kazimierz Potocki at the Battle of Podhajce (1698);
  • Stanisław Wojtowicz - Luck County judge's deputy (subiudex) in 1743-1746, court's writer in 1748-1749;
  • Karol de Lubicz Woytowicz "Chmielewski" (1839-1866) - insurrectionist in the Polish January Uprising (1863-1864);
  • Józef August Woytowicz (1796-1864) - a landowner; an oil pioneer, one of the founders of the Bóbrka oil mine in 1855, a collaborator of Ignacy Łukasiewicz;
  • Edward Wilhelm Woytowicz - a landowner; owner of Nienaszów, Draganowa, estates in Volhynia and Podolia;
  • Józef Wojtowicz (1864-1925) - a landowner, owner of Ulów;
  • Jan Wojtowicz (1900-1952) - a soldier in the Polish-Bolshevik war;
  • Jerzy Waldemar Wojtowicz (1929-2014) - Polish engineer.
"Lubicz coat of arms serves the House of Wojtowicz" - the proof of nobility in 1803
Burnt manor house of the Wojtowicz family in Draganowa, 19th century

References

  1. ↑ Dunin-Borkowski, Jerzy Seweryn. Genealogies of the living Polish houses. Lviv, 1894
  2. ↑ Source: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kiev, Act No 0538
  3. ↑ Tadeusz Gajl, Armorial of Poland
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