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14-466: Oginskis may have the following meanings: The plural form of the Polish surname Oginski , e.g., in the meaning Ogiński family . A Lithuanian form of the surname " Oginski " A Latvian surname: Aleksejs Kuplovs-Oginskis, Latvian football midfielder Viktors Oginskis, Latvian rock musician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

28-503: A bishop sometimes held territory as a magnate, collecting the revenue of the manors and the associated knights' fees . In the Tudor period, after Henry VII defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field , Henry made a point of executing or neutralising as many magnates as possible. Henry would make parliament attaint undesirable nobles and magnates, thereby stripping them of their wealth, protection from torture, and power. Henry also used

42-721: A social class of wealthy and influential nobility in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania , and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . Velikaš is the Serbo-Croatian word for 'magnate', derived from veliko ('great, large, grand'). It was used to refer to the highest nobility of Serbia in the Middle Ages and Croatia in the Middle Ages. In Spain, since the late Middle Ages,

56-646: A major estate of the family in Lithuania that was granted to precursor of the family, Knyaz Dmitry Hlushonok (d. 1510), by Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander in 1486. An important family in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the family had produced many important officials of the state, as well as several notable musicians. The political stronghold of the Ogiński clan was the Vitebsk Voivodeship , where

70-481: A palace was built in the first half of the seventeenth century by Samuel Ogiński . Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was the largest public building in the city of Vitebsk . On September 18, 1711 Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sold the town of Maladzyechna to the Ogiński family. Among the owners of the area were Kazimierz Ogiński and Tadeusz Ogiński, the Castellan of Trakai . The Ogiński family made

84-465: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Oginski They were most likely of Rurikid stock, related to Chernihiv Knyaz family, and originated from the Smolensk region, incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in approximately the fourteenth century. The family bears its name from Uogintai ( Polish : Oginty , in present-day Kaišiadorys district of Lithuania ),

98-605: The Brama Coat of Arms . Magnate The term magnate , from the late Latin magnas , a great man, itself from Latin magnus , "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities in Western Christian countries since the medieval period. It also includes the members of the higher clergy, such as bishops , archbishops and cardinals . In reference to

112-573: The Court of the Star Chamber to have powerful nobles executed. Henry VIII continued this approach in his reign; he inherited a survivalistic mistrust of nobles from his father. Henry VIII ennobled very few men, and the ones he did were all " new men ": novi homines , greatly indebted to him and with very limited power. The term was specifically applied to the members of the Upper House of

126-694: The Diet of Hungary in the Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary , the Főrendiház , that can be translated as the House of Magnates , an equivalent to the British Peers. In feudal Japan, the most powerful landholding magnates were known as daimyo . In the 11th and 12th centuries, the daimyo became military lords of samurai clans with territorial and proprietary control over private estates. Magnates were

140-510: The medieval , the term is often used to distinguish higher territorial landowners and warlords , such as counts , earls , dukes , and territorial- princes from the baronage . In Poland the szlachta (nobles) constituted one of the largest proportions of the population (around 10-12%) and 'magnat' refers to the richest nobles, or nobles of the nobility - even though they had equal voting rights in Poland's electoral monarchy. In England ,

154-413: The surname Oginskis . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oginskis&oldid=1180918149 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

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168-491: The Ogiński family that had owned it in the eighteenth century. They also temporarily possessed Siedlce . They were the sponsors of Eastern Orthodox editions in Ruthenian and Slavonic languages. Orthodox publicists called the clan of Oginski "the bastion of Orthodox faith". The last orthodox magnate , Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński had to choose between Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Church . The House of Ogiński used

182-548: The city one of the main centres of their domain. They erected a new, classicist palace with notable frescoes, as well as a late Renaissance church. In 1783 the family received the title of Prince from the Holy Roman Emperor . The continued existence of the family is noted among charts of the Princely Houses of Poland . In 1882 the villages Zalavas and Kavarskas were bought by Michał Ogiński, an heir to

196-503: The magnate class went through a change in the later Middle Ages. It had previously consisted of all tenants-in-chief of the crown, a group of more than a hundred families. The emergence of Parliament led to the establishment of a parliamentary peerage that received personal summons, rarely more than sixty families. A similar class in the Gaelic world were the Flatha . In the Middle Ages,

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