Justynian Szczytt

Justynian Niemirowicz Szczytt (also spelled Szczyt and Szczyth; died 1677) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), a chamberlain (podkomorzy) of Polotsk and a deputy to the sejm (parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

For many years he was a servant of the magnate Sapieha family. He was vice wojewoda (vice governor) of Polotsk (probably 1666–70) and chamberlain (podkomorzy) of Polotsk from 1673. Szczytt was a sejm deputy in 1667, 1668, 1669, 1670 and 1674.

He was also a founder of the Franciscan cloister at Prozaroki (Polish Prozoroki).

Family Justynian Szczytt was a member of the Szczytt family, which used Jastrzębiec as its coat of arms (although according to Kasper Niesiecki, it was not Jastrzębiec, but Radwan ).

Justynian's great-grandfather was Mikołaj Szczytt, wojski of Witebsk, who spent 15 years in captivity in Moscow.

Justynian Szczytt married Anna Joanna Tukowicz (d. 1694), daughter of Bazyli Tukowicz, in 1648. They had six sons: Konstanty Marcjan, b. about 1649, d. 17 or 22 October 1712; podsędek (deputy district judge) of Polotsk, elector of Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Jan III Sobieski and August II Bronisław, d. between 2 June 1668 and 1675 Krzysztof Benedykt, d. 1720; castellan of Smolensk Samuel Karol, d. 24 December 1709 Albrecht (Olbracht, Olbrycht), d. 22 August 1694; podstoli of Smolensk Kazimierz, b. 29 November 1664, d. 8 September 1708; Jesuit.

Life Nothing is known about the date or place of Justynian Szczytt's birth, nor his education and youth.

He was a servant of the magnat Sapieha family for many years, particularly of Paweł Jan Sapieha and his son Benedykt Paweł Sapieha. He administered property in Czereje in their names from 1667 to 1669.

During election Sejm of 1674 he voted for Jan III Sobieski. In 1677 Szczytt brought the Franciscan Brothers to Prozaroki, where he built them a cloister and church.

Justynian Szczytt died in 1677 (although Teodor Żychliński states that Szczytt died about 1681 ). He was buried in the Franciscan church in Prozaroki.

Estate Szczytt was an owner of the several villages. From his father he inherited Białe. Later he bought some more: Truchonowicz, Kozłów and Słobódki from Jerzy Atełchowski, Hubin and island on Otułow's river from Jakub Iwanowicz Suprynowicz Bużycki and his wife Halsza in 1654.

Szczytt was also owner of parts of some villages. He bought part of Tabołki and Prozaroki from his brother-in-law Stefan Tukowicz (first in 1663, second in 1666) and part of Sanniki from Michał Skarżyński in 1674. He was also mentioned as owner of Komorowszczyzna, Ołoskowo and Pohorełe.

Justynian Szczytt had as lien the following villages: Doroszkowice (Dorozińce), Babcze, Czerniewicz, Woroszki, Mamonowszczyzna, Szypiłłowszczyzma, Świerzno and Dziernowice.

Szczytt divided his property among his sons in 1675.