Inflanty Voivodeship

The Inflanty Voivodeship (Template:Langx), or Livonian Voivodeship (Template:Langx), also known as Polish Livonia, was an administrative division and local government in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the Wenden Voivodeship and lasted until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The Inflanty Voivodeship was one of the few territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to be ruled jointly by Poland and Lithuania.

Overview

The Inflanty Voivodeship, also called the Duchy of Inflanty, due to a 1667 bill of the Sejm, was the minority remainder of the Duchy of Livonia, which had been conquered by the Swedish Empire during the Polish–Swedish War of 1621–1625. The seat of the voivode was Dyneburg (Daugavpils).

The name Inflanty is derived through Polonization of Livland, the German name for Livonia. In modern times the region is known as Latgalia in the Republic of Latvia.

Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of Inflanty Voivodeship:

Voivodes

File:Lithuanian-Livonian double-Denar with monogram of Steponas Batoras, coat of arms of Gotthard Kettler and Lithuanian Vytis (Waykimas), 1578.jpg

Lithuanian-Livonian double-Denar with monogram of Grand Duke Stephen Báthory, coat of arms of Gotthard Kettler and the coat of arms of Lithuania, minted in Mitau, 1578

This is a list of the voivodes for Inflanty:

• 1677–1695 Jan Teodor Schlieben
• 1695–1696 Jan Andrzej Plater
• 1696–1705 Otto Fryderyk Felkierzamb (von Voelkersamb)
• 1705–1707 Fabian Plater
• 1707–1712 Stefan Karol Grothus
• 1709–1713 Józef Kos
• 1713–1722 Piotr Jerzy Przebendowski
• 1722–1735 Antoni Andrzej Morsztyn
• 1735–1736 Jan Ludwik Plater
• 1737–1765 Franciszek Jakub Szembek
• 1765–1767 Jan Andrzej Borch
• 1767–1769 Stanisław Brzostowski
• 1769–1775 Jozafat Zyberk (Sieberg zu Wischiing)
• 1775–1778 Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (Sieberg zu Wischiing)
• 1778–1788 Kasper Rogaliński
• 1790–1794 Adam Ewald Felkerzamb (von Voelkersamb)