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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz

1560 - 1621

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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (Lithuanian: Jonas Karolis Chodkevičius; c. 1561 – 24 September 1621) was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent noblemen and military commanders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of his era. His coat of arms was Chodkiewicz, as was his family name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Karol Chodkiewicz is the 399th most popular military personnel (down from 389th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Military Personnel.

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz is most famous for his victory over the Swedish army at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 399 out of 2,058. Before him are Carl Spaatz, Charles Lee, Hermann Balck, Gustav Wagner, Gerhard Barkhorn, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. After him are Bonifacius, Hans-Valentin Hube, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Jean II Le Maingre, Francisco de Miranda, and Xanthippus of Carthage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Annibale Carracci, Thomas Harriot, Jacobus Arminius, and Gaspard Bauhin. After him are Thomas Cavendish, Anton Praetorius, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1621, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 9. Before him are Robert Bellarmine, Thomas Harriot, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Michael Praetorius. After him are Şehzade Mehmed, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Cristofano Allori, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Johann Arndt, and Anna Juliana Gonzaga.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 30 out of 328. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), Aaron Klug (1926), Marija Gimbutas (1921), Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), and Hacı I Giray (1397). After him are Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Andrew Schally (1926), Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), and Boris Skossyreff (1896).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ranks 1. After him are Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Iosif Igelström (1737), Ieronim Uborevich (1896), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), Silvestras Žukauskas (1860), and Yakov Smushkevich (1902).

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