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Jan Piotr Sapieha

1569 - 1611

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Jan Piotr Sapieha (English: John Peter Sapieha, 1569–1611) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, general, politician, diplomat, governor of Uświat county, member of the Parliament and a skilled commander of the Lithuanian troops stationing in the Moscow Kremlin. Sapieha was a participant of the Polish-Swedish War – he brought a private regiment of 100 Cossacks, and commanded the right wing, consisting of 400 winged hussars and mounted 700 Cossack, of the Polish-Lithuanian army during the famous Battle of Kircholm in 1605. He also participated in the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18), where he commanded the failed siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1608 and later fought anti-Polish Muscovite forces near Moscow, led by Prokopy Lyapunov. He died suddenly on 15 October, during the siege of the Moscow Kremlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Piotr Sapieha is the 13,308th most popular politician (down from 12,799th in 2024), the 130th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 129th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Belarusian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jan Piotr Sapieha ranks 13,307 out of 19,576. Before him are Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia, José Canalejas, Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Oleksandr Korniychuk. After him are Aegidius Tschudi, Gheorghe Apostol, Tajuddin Ahmad, Zoran Lilić, Dharanindravarman II, Piet Dankert, and Leopold I, Prince of Lippe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1569, Jan Piotr Sapieha ranks 14. Before him are Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Friedrich Kettler, Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Heo Gyun, and Antonio Marcello Barberini. After him are Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, Emilia Lanier, and Geoffrey Keating. Among people deceased in 1611, Jan Piotr Sapieha ranks 17. Before him are Sanada Masayuki, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Princess Sophia of Sweden, Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, and Simon I of Kartli. After him are Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Gioseffo Guami.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Jan Piotr Sapieha ranks 130 out of 368. Before him are Kirill of Turov (1130), Lev Schnirelmann (1905), Alexander Chervyakov (1892), Mikhail Yegorov (1923), Vladimir Kovalyonok (1942), and Bryachislav of Polotsk (997). After him are Chaim Kanievsky (1928), Galina Lukashenko (1955), Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), Moisei Ginzburg (1892), Tamara Tyshkevich (1931), and Sergei Loznitsa (1964).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Jan Piotr Sapieha ranks 39. Before him are Alaksandar Milinkievič (1947), Pyotr Masherov (1918), Chiang Fang-liang (1916), Hayder of Crimea (null), Alexander Chervyakov (1892), and Bryachislav of Polotsk (997). After him are Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), Sergei Sidorsky (1954), Roman Golovchenko (1973), Lev Dovator (1903), Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714), and Sergey Ling (1937).

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