page_title: List of szlachta
section_title: 16th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of szlachta / By year of birth / 16th century
context_page_description: The szlachta was a privileged social class in the Kingdom of Poland. The term szlachta was also used for the Lithuanian nobility after the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with Poland as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and for the increasingly Polonized nobilities of territories controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including Ducal Prussia and the Ruthenian lands.
  The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a semi-confederated, semi-federated monarchic republic from 1569 until 1795, comprising the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The head of state was an elected monarch. The Commonwealth's dominant social class was the nobility. These families would receive non-hereditary 'central' and Land dignities and titles under the Commonwealth law that forbade any hereditary legal distinctions within the peerage. They would later be 'approximated' to honorary hereditary titles in the Partition period with little real-power privileges but would still be venerated among the Polish upper class and the rest of the society as 'senatorial', 'palatinal', 'castellanial' or "dignitarial' families.
context_section_description: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (ca. 1503–1572) scholar, humanist and theologian
  Mikołaj Rej, 1505–1568, writer
  Stanisław Odrowąż, 1509–1545, castellan, voivode
  Jerzy Jazłowiecki, 1510–1575, hetman
  Marcin Kromer, 1512–1589, Prince-Bishop
  Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, 1512–1584, hetman, kanclerz (chancellor)
  Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, 1515–1565, marshal, chancellor, palatine
  Barbara Radziwiłł, 1520–1550, queen
  Jan Firlej, 1521–1574, marshall, starost
  Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, 1526–1608, voivode
  Radziwill Butwilowicz, 1526
  Jan Tarło, 1527–1587, castellan, voivode
  Michał Wiśniowiecki, 1529–1584, castellan
  Jan Kostka, 1529–1581, voivode
  Grzegorz Branicki, c.1534–1595, łowczy of Kraków, starost of Niepołomice
  Zofia Tarnowska, 1534–1570
  Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, 1537–1567, castellan
  Sebastian Lubomirski, 1539–1613, castellan
  Zofia Odrowąż, 1540–1580
  Jan Opaliński, 1546–1598
  Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, 1546–1589, chambelain
  Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, 1547–1603, hetman
  Stanisław Żółkiewski, 1547–1620, hetman, catellan, chancellor
  Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, 1549–1616, voivode
  Marek Sobieski, 1549–1605, voivode
  Stanisław Kostka, 1550–1568, saint
  Jan Tarnowski, 1550–1605, archbishop
  Stanisław Stadnicki, 1551–1610
  Jan Kiszka, 1552–1592
  Andrzej Leszczyński, 1553–1606, starost of Nakło, voivode of Brześć Kujawski
  Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, 1553–1620, voivode
  Janusz Ostrogski, 1554–1620, castellan, voivode
  Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, 1555–1628, voivode
  Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, 1555–1628, King's secretary
  Aleksander Koniecpolski, 1555–1609, voivode
  Jerzy Radziwiłł, 1556–1600, bishop
  Lew Sapieha, 1557–1633, hetman, voivode
  Stanisław Krasiński, 1558–1617, voivode
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, 1560–1621, hetman
  Katarzyna Ostrogska, 1560–157
  Krystyna Radziwiłł, 1560–1580
  Mikołaj Spytek Ligęza, 1562–1637, castellan
  Zygmunt Tarło, 1562–1628, castellan
  Marcin Kazanowski, 1563/1566–1636, hetman, chancellor, voivode
  Zygmunt Kazanowski, 1563–1634, starost, courth marshall and chamberlain
  Konstanty Wiśniowiecki, 1564–1641, voivode
  Barbara Tarnowska, 1566–1610
  Adam Wiśniowiecki, 1566–1622
  Jan Szczęsny Herburt, 1567–1616, starost
  Jan Piotr Sapieha, 1569–1611, starosta uświacki, pułkownik królewski
  Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz, 1570–1642, voivode, writer
  Aleksander Ostrogski, 1571–1603, voivode
  Daniel Naborowski, 1573–1640, poet
  Jerzy Zbaraski, 1573–1631, castellan
  Anna Kostka, 1575–1635
  Katarzyna Kostka, 1575–1648
  Adam Hieronim Sieniawski, 1576–1616, starost, podczaszy
  Grzegorz IV Radziwiłł, 1578–1613, castellan
  Rafał Leszczyński, 1579–1636, voivode
  Janusz Radziwiłł, 1579–1620, castellan
  Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki, 1579–1667, hetman
  Aleksander Józef Lisowski, 1580–1616, mercenary commander
  Szymon Okolski, 1580–1653, historian, priest
  Jakub Sobieski, 1580/88-1646, voivode
  Krzysztof Zbaraski, 1580–1628, koniuszy, ambassador
  Hieronim Morsztyn, 1581–1623, poet
  Jan Opaliński, 1581–1637, voivode of Poznań
  Łukasz Opaliński, 1581–1654, voivode
  Jan Tęczyński, 1581–1637, voivode of Kraków
  Jakub Zadzik, 1582–1642, bishop and chancellor
  Stanisław Lubomirski, 1583–1649
  Zofia Czeska, 1584–1650, nun
  Piotr Gembicki, 1585–1657, chancellor
  Krzysztof II Radziwiłł, 1585–1640, hetman
  Szymon Starowolski, 1585–1650, priest, writer
  Samuel Korecki, 1586–1622
  Piotr Opaliński, 1586–1624
  Kasper Doenhoff, 1587–1645, voivode
  Krzysztof Ossoliński, 1587–1645, voivode
  Stefan Pac, 1587–1640, chancellor
  Mikołaj Firlej, 1588–1635, wojewoda sandomierski
  Marina Mniszech, 1588–1614
  Samuel Łaszcz, 1588–1649, starosta, (warchoł means brawler, barrator)
  Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł, 1589–1636, castellan
  Jan Stanisław Sapieha, 1589–1635, Chancellor of Lithuania from 1621–1635, childless
  Stanisław Koniecpolski, 1590/1594–1646, hetman
  Jakub Sobieski, 1590–1646, voivode
  Janusz Tyszkiewicz Łohojski, 1590–1649, voivode
  Andrzej Bobola, 1591–1657, jesuit, martyr, saint
  Zygmunt Karol Radziwiłł, 1591–1642, voivode
  Krzysztof Arciszewski, 1592–1656, General of Artillery
  Mikołaj Ostroróg, 1593–1651, sejm marshal
  Jan Karol Tarło, 1593–1645, castellan
  Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, 1594–1654, voivod
caption: Stanisław Rewera Potocki
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