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Józef Zabiełło

1750 – 1794

Field Hetman of Lithuania

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About Józef Zabiełło

Lived 1750 – 1794 (aged 43–44). Józef Zabiełło was a Polish diplomat.

Józef Zabiełło h. Topór (; c. 1750 – 9 May 1794 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic). Lithuanian Grand Master of the Hunt from 1775, konsyliarz of Permanent Council from 1782, deputy of Samogitia to the Great Sejm and Field Hetman of Lithuania from 1793, he was a supporter of the Russian Empire in the last years of the Commonwealth.

Early life Son of Antoni Zabiełło and Zofia Niemirowicz-Szczytt h. Jastrzębiec.

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Four-Year Sejm Opponent of the Constitution of 3 May and deputy marshal of the Targowica Confederation. After the Polish–Russian War of 1792, because of his support for the Russian, he was selected by them to be a Field Hetman of Lithuania and deputy to the Grodno Sejm, the last Sejm of the Commonwealth, infamous for being forced by Russians to sign the act of the second partition. During the Kościuszko Uprising he was apprehended by the revolutionaries in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising. After it was revealed that he had been receiving a steady pension from the Russian embassy for several years, he was sentenced to hanging as a traitor and executed on 9 May 1794.

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Important facts

Born
1750
Birth century
Occupation
Positions held
Field lithuanian hetman, Confederate of the Confederacy, Polish elector, Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Awards
Order of the White Eagle (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth); Order of Saint Michael; Order of Saint Stanislaus

Contemporaries

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Frequently asked questions

Who was Józef Zabiełło?

Field Hetman of Lithuania

When was Józef Zabiełło born?

Józef Zabiełło was born in 1750.

When did Józef Zabiełło die?

Józef Zabiełło died on 9 May 1794 in Warsaw.

What was Józef Zabiełło's occupation?

Józef Zabiełło was a diplomat.

What nationality was Józef Zabiełło?

Józef Zabiełło was Polish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Józef Zabiełło

· Wikidata: Q3692378

· DBpedia: Józef Zabiełło

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