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Polish noble family

Chodkiewicz Chodkiewicz Current region Poland, Belarus and Lithuania Place of origin Grand Duchy of Lithuania Members Aleksander Chodkiewicz Grzegorz Chodkiewicz Jan Karol Chodkiewicz Krzysztof Chodkiewicz

[Supraśl Monastery](/source/Supra%C5%9Bl) founded by [Aleksander Chodkiewicz](/source/Aleksander_Chodkiewicz)

The **House of Chodkiewicz** ([Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language): Хадкевіч; [Lithuanian](/source/Lithuanian_language): *Chodkevičius*) was one of the most influential [noble families](/source/Szlachta) of [Lithuanian](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania)-[Ruthenian](/source/Ruthenians) descent within the [Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth](/source/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth) in the 16th and 17th century.[1]

## History

[Chodko Jurewicz](/source/Chodko_Jurewicz), chamberlain to Grand Duke [Vytenis](/source/Vytenis), was probably the ancestor of the whole clan and gave it the name *Chodkiewicz*, meaning "son of Chodzko". Surnames were not used in that time, but apparently later in history, the name *Chodzko* became a surname after Christianization of Chodzko Juriewicz, father of Iwan (later Jan) Chodkiewicz. They bore the [Chodkiewicz coat of arms](/source/Coat_of_arms_of_Chodkiewicz). In 1572, Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz converted from [Calvinism](/source/Calvinism) to [Roman Catholicism](/source/Roman_Catholicism) with his two sons, which made them the first [Polonized](/source/Polonization) generation of the once Lithuanian-Ruthenian family. Emperor [Charles V](/source/Charles_V%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor) granted them the title of [Imperial Count](/source/Imperial_Count).

## Notable family members

- [Chodko Jurewicz](/source/Chodko_Jurewicz) (c.1431–1447), founder of Chodkiewicz clan

- [Ivan Chodkiewicz](/source/Ivan_Chodkiewicz) (?–1484), founder of the Chodkiewicz family

- [Aleksander Chodkiewicz](/source/Aleksander_Chodkiewicz) (1475–1549), [voivode of Navahrudak](/source/Voivode_of_Navahrudak), [Grand Marshal of Lithuania](/source/Grand_Marshal_of_Lithuania)

- [Yurii Chodkiewicz](/source/Yurii_Chodkiewicz) (1524–1569), voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship

- [Hieronim Chodkiewicz](/source/Hieronim_Chodkiewicz) (1500–1561), Grand Lithuanian [Deputy cup-bearer](/source/Deputy_cup-bearer), [Elder of Samogitia](/source/Elder_of_Samogitia), [Count of the Roman Empire](/source/Count)

- [Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz](/source/Jan_Hieronimowicz_Chodkiewicz) (1537–1579), Livonian hetman, [Grand Lithuanian Marshal](/source/Grand_Marshal_of_Lithuania), [castellan of Vilnius](/source/Castellan_of_Vilnius).

- [Grzegorz Chodkiewicz](/source/Grzegorz_Chodkiewicz) (?–1572), [Grand Lithuanian Hetman](/source/Grand_Lithuanian_Hetman)

- [Jan Karol Chodkiewicz](/source/Jan_Karol_Chodkiewicz) (1560–1621), Grand Lithuanian Hetman

- [Krzysztof Chodkiewicz](/source/Krzysztof_Chodkiewicz) (?–1652), castellan of [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius), [voivode of Vilnius](/source/Voivode_of_Vilnius)

- [Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz](/source/Jan_Kazimierz_Chodkiewicz) (1616–1660), castellan of Vilnius

- [Anna Eufrozyna Chodkiewicz](/source/Anna_Eufrozyna_Chodkiewicz) (c. 1600 – c. 1631), married [Prokop Sieniawski](/source/Prokop_Sieniawski_(d._1627)) in 1623

- [Teresa Chodkiewicz](/source/Teresa_Chodkiewicz) (1645–1672), married Stanisław Bonifacy Krasiński about 1667

- [Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz](/source/Jan_Miko%C5%82aj_Chodkiewicz) (1738–1781), father of [Rozalia Lubomirska](/source/Rozalia_Lubomirska)

- [Aleksander Chodkiewicz](/source/Aleksander_Franciszek_Chodkiewicz) (1776-1838), Polish–Lithuanian patriot and polymath

## See also

- [Lithuanian nobility](/source/Lithuanian_nobility)

- [List of szlachta](/source/List_of_szlachta)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [House of Chodkiewicz](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:House_of_Chodkiewicz).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Chester S. L. Dunning, Caryl Emerson, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, *The Uncensored Boris Godunov*, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007, SBN 0299207641, [Google Print, p. 498](https://books.google.com/books?id=9FusgXypm7MC&dq=%22Chodkiewicz+family%22&pg=PA486)

## Sources

- Hrytskyevich, Anatol (2005). "Хадкевіч". *Вялікае княства Літоўскае: Энцыклапедыя — Т. 2: Кадэцкі корпус — Яцкевіч*. Minsk: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя. pp. 709–711. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [985-11-0378-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/985-11-0378-0).

- Niesiecki, Kasper. *Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego*. Published by Waif, 1839, [Google Print, p.48 (public domain)](https://books.google.com/books?id=S11JAAAAIAAJ&q=chodkiewicz&pg=PA48)

## External links

- [Genealogy of Chodkiewicz family](https://web.archive.org/web/20080617235723/http://www.e-familytree.net/F10/F10257.htm#1)

- [Site about Chodkiewicz clan](https://web.archive.org/web/20080618010408/http://roots.eswo.org/Chodkiewicz.htm)

- [Full interactive family tree (in Polish)](https://web.archive.org/web/20080415215319/http://www.polskiedzieje.pl/drzewa-genealogiczne/drzewo-chodkiewiczowie)

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