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Full name
Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki
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August 17, 1612 Lubny, Kiev Voivodship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Died | August 20, 1651 (aged 39) Pawołocz, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Noble family | Wiśniowiecki |
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Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska |
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| Father | Michał Wiśniowiecki |
| Mother | Regina Mohyła (Raina Mohylanka) |
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (Ukrainian: Ярема Вишневецький - Yarema Vyshnevetsky; August 17, 1612 – August 20, 1651) nicknamed Hammer on the Cossacks or Iron Hand, was a notable member of the of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Wiśniowiec, Łubnie and Chorol in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the father of the future King of Poland, Michael I.
A notable magnate and military commander with Ruthenian and Moldavian origin, Wiśniowiecki was heir of one of the biggest fortunes of the state and rose to several notable dignities, including the position of voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship in 1646. His conversion from Eastern Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism caused much dissent in Ruthenia and Ukraine (parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). Wiśniowiecki was a successful military leader as well as one of the wealthiest magnates of Poland, ruling over lands inhabited by 230,000 people.
Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was born in 1612; neither the exact date nor the place of his birth are known. His father, Michał Wiśniowiecki, of the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Wiśniowiecki family, died soon after Jeremi's birth, in 1616. His mother, Regina Mohyła (Raina Mohylanka) was a Moldavian-born noble woman of the Movilești family, daughter of the Moldavian Prince Ieremia Movilă, Jeremy's namesake; she died in 1619. Both of his parents were of the Eastern Orthodox Church rite; Jeremy's uncle was the influential Orthodox theologian Peter Mogila, and his great-uncle was George Mogila, the Metropolitan of Moldavia.
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