THE LARGEST GALICIAN BOYARS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 14th CENTURY AND THEIR DESCENDANTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of two most prominent Galician boyar families after the capture of the Red Rus’ (the former Principality of Galicia) by Poland in 1349. The most influential Galician boyar (nobleman of Russian origin) Khodko Loevich, apparently, owned only 3-4 small villages. He had no sons, so his family stopped. Vasko Tyaptyukovich began his career as an ordinary nobleman in the 1370s. He became the richest Galician landowner of Russian origin thanks to generous grants of 1375, 1376, 1392, 1416 and 1417. After the childless Vasko, his younger brother Prokop inherited. His son Jan Prokopovich and grandson Andrei Prokop, who died in the XVI century, held positions in the system of the nobility self-government of the Galician land and were Polonized Catholics. The fate of these nobles is a vivid proof that almost all the descendants of the famous Galician boyars of the 13th century were the owners of one or two small villages in the first decades of the Polish domination.