Adam Kisiel

Adam Kisiel, also Adam Kysil (Polish: Adam Kisiel Ukrainian: Адам Святольдич Кисіль; 1580 or 1600-1653) was a Polish nobleman, the Voivode of Kiev (1649-1653) and castellan or voivode of Czernihów (1639-1646). He was the last Orthodox senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Kisiel has become better known for his mediation during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

Adam Kisiel was a member of the noble family Kisiel, which used his own coat of arm, sometime called Światołdycz. It was Ruthenian family, originated from Volyn.

His grandfather, Gniewosz Kisiel, was a colonel in the service of the Polish king Sigismund I the Old, and lost his life in the battle of Orsza.

His father, Grzegorz, was a podsędek of Włodzimierz. He sign himself as Kisiel Niskinicki.

Adam's brother was Mikołaj Kisiel (d. 1651), a chorąży of Nowogród Siewierski.

Adam Kisiel was married to Anastazja Krystyna Bohuszewicz. She was probably a daughter of Filion Bohuszewicz Hulkiewicz, widow after Butowicz. The couple was childless.

Adam Kisiel described himself as a Polish noble (Jestem szlachcic polski, literally: I am a Polish noble).

Adam Kisiel according to the older historiography was born around 1580. After Tadeusz Jan Lubomirski in 1905 published his work Adam Kisiel wojewoda kijowski, where is contained information that on the grave inscription of Adam Kisiel is mentioned that he died as 53 years old, historians stated that he was born in 1600.

Kisiel was baptized into the Eastern Orthodox faith. He was educated in Zamojski Academy in spirit of humanism and tolerance.

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