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Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
Portrait by Teofil Kopystynsky
Coat of arms	Ostrogski
Born	2 February 1526 Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	23 or 13 February 1608(1608-02-13) (aged 82) Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Noble family	Ostrogski
Spouse(s)	Zofia Tarnowska
Issue	Elżbieta Ostrogska Janusz Ostrogski Katarzyna Ostrogska Konstanty Ostrogski Aleksander Ostrogski
Father	Konstanty Ostrogski
Mother	Aleksandra Słucka

Saint Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi
Right-Believing Prince
Venerated in	Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Canonized	12 July 2008
Feast	26 February

Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (Ukrainian: Костянтин-Василь Острозький, romanized: Kostiantyn-Vasyl Ostrozkyi; Belarusian: Канстантын Васіль Астрожскi; Lithuanian: Konstantinas Vasilijus Ostrogiškis; 2 February 1526 – 13 or 23 February 1608) was a Ruthenian Orthodox magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a prince, starost of Volodymyr, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship. Ostrogski refused to help False Dmitriy I and supported Jan Zamoyski.

Biography

The date of birth of Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski is disputed. According to some historians he was born around 1524/1525. He was born probably in Turów.

He married in January 1553 in Tarnów.

In the 1570s he waged a war against another magnate, Stanisław Tarnowski, about disputed possession of estates in the area of Tarnów, in Lesser Poland.

Prince Ostrogski was of Eastern Orthodox faith and he was active in supporting the Orthodox Church (see Union of Brest). He was also a promoter of Eastern Christian culture in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Around 1576 he established the Ostroh Academy, a wellregarded humanist educational and scholarship institution, with the instruction in Greek, Latin and Old Church Slavonic languages. In 1581, the academy produced and published the Ostroh Bible, the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic. While Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski was the proponent of the Eastern Orthodox religion, his son Janusz Ostrogski converted to Roman Catholicism.

Ostrogski's huge latifundium, or landed estate in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisted of 100 towns and 1300 villages. It was Ostrogski who built Starokostiantyniv Castle.

Ostroh boasted an Orthodox academy, a yeshiva, a mosque, and a Unitarian Church.

He was canonized in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a Right-Believing prince.

Ancestors

See also

• Ostrogski family
• Starokostiantyniv Castle

References

1. Kempa, Tomasz (1996). "Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski wobec katolicyzmu i wyznań protestanckich". Odrodzenie I Reformacja. 40: 17. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
2. Kempa, Tomasz (2002). Dzieje rodu Ostrogskich. Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. p. 79.
3. Kempa, Tomasz (1996). "Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski wobec katolicyzmu i wyznań protestanckich". Odrodzenie I Reformacja. 40: 19. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
4. A Concise History of Poland, by Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 0-521-61857-6, p. 86-87
5. Snyder, Timothy (2004-07-11). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999. Yale University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-300-10586-5.
6. Józef Andrzej Gierowski - Historia Polski 1505-1764 (History of Poland 1505-1764), p. 193, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Polish Scientific Publishers PWN), Warszawa 1986, ISBN 83-01-03732-6
7. Snyder, Timothy (2004-07-11). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999. Yale University Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-300-10586-5.

External links

• Ostrozky, Kostiantyn Vasyl / Ostrozky in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993)
• a chapter of the "History of Rus" by Mykola Kostomarov devoted to "Knyaz Konstantin Konstantinovich Ostrozhskiy" (in Russian)

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Lesser Poland Province	Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1569–1608) Stanisław Żółkiewski (1608–18) Tomasz Zamoyski (1619–28) Aleksander Zasławski (1629–29) Stefan Chmielecki (1629–30) Janusz Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1630–49) Adam Kisiel (1650–53) Stanisław Rewera Potocki (1655–58) Jan Zamoyski (1658–59) Ivan Vyhovsky (1659–64) Stefan Czarniecki (1664–65) Michał Zygmunt Stanisławski (1665–68) Andrzej Potocki (1668–81) Feliks Kazimierz Potocki (1682) Stefan Niemirycz (1682–84) Marcin Kątski (1684–1702) Józef Potocki (1702–44) Stanisław Potocki (1744–56) Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1756–72) Stanisław Lubomirski (1772–85) Józef Gabriel Stempkowski (1785–91) Antoni Protazy Potocki (1791–93)

• 1526 births
• 1608 deaths
• People from Ostroh
• Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Eastern Orthodox Christians from Poland
• Ostrogski family
• Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Voivodes of Kiev