Published: 2024-01-26

Futile Efforts: Clients of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Their Efforts to Protect the Patron’s Property from the Swedes and Leszczyński’s Army in the Years 1706—1709

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The article is devoted to the efforts made by Karol Stanislaw Radziwiłł, the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, and his clients to protect his estates from the Swedish and Polish armies. There is no doubt that Radziwiłł’s transition from the camp of supporters of Augustus II to the pro-Stanislav party in 1706 was due to his desire to prevent his estates from being destroyed by the Swedish army. He sent his residents to the court of the new monarch to represent his interests. Among their tasks was that of the protection of Radziwiłł’s estates from military quartering, contributions and robberies carried out by both the Swedes and Leszczyński’s Polish supporters. The residents’ interventions, however, were unsuccessful. The Swedish commanders treated the exploitation of wealth as a wartime necessity and did not keep their promise to limit contributions and requisitions. Dependent on the Swedish military power, king Stanislaus was helpless in the face of the destruction wrought by the Swedes. The efforts made by the residents were thus little more than demonstrations of the Radziwiłł’s dedication as Leszczyński’s supporter.

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Siwoń, J. (2024). Futile Efforts: Clients of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Their Efforts to Protect the Patron’s Property from the Swedes and Leszczyński’s Army in the Years 1706—1709. Wieki Stare I Nowe, 18(23), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2023.23.10

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Vol. 18 No. 23 (2023)
Published: 2024-02-09


ISSN: 1899-1556
eISSN: 2353-9739

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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