Goštautai
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The Goštautai were one of the most influential Lithuanian magnate families of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Their only serious rivals were the Kęsgailos, and from the end of the 15th century the
Napoleon Orda's drawing of the ruined Gieraneny Castle of the Goštautai in the modern-day Grodno Region, Belarus.
Jonas Goštautas
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Jonas Gostautas or Goštautas was a Lithuanian nobleman from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the Gasztołd noble family, a politician and skillful land owner. He served as Chancellor of Lithuania betwee
Goštautai
…and Goštautas; these are all different renderings of the same distorted pagan given name of Goštautai's ancestor, mentioned in written sources as Johann Gastawd. Upon the baptism he retained his pagan Lithuanian name (which may be reconstructed as *Gāstaŭtas) and passed it on to his descendants; that was a…
Tykocin Castle, commissioned by Goštautas in 1433