Jerzy Radziwiłł (cardinal)

Jerzy Radziwiłł (cardinal)

Prince Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556–1600), _lt. Jurgis Radvila was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic), Bishop and Cardinal. Radziwill was an Imperial Prince (Reichsfürst).

Jerzy educated in Leipzig and Rome. He was the Bishop of Vilnius from 1579 until 1591, deputy administrator (namiestnik) of Livonia (Inflanty) from 1582 until 1585, Cardinal and Bishop of Kraków since 1591. In 1592 he became a trusted adviser of king Sigismund III Vasa.

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* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/eico/seite39.html Portrait of Cardinal Georgius Radzivil, Radvila]


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