Єловицькі в Kоронному трибуналі в 1590–1647 роках: персоналії та хронологія
Abstract
the inhabitants of the Ukrainian voivodships in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
appeared at the meetings of the Crown Tribunal to participate in
the court proceedings (as сlaimants or defendants). Therefore we can analyze
such presence only referring to the cases of some noble families. Thanks to the
fact that original documents from the so-called Lanovets Archive of Jełowickis
are preserved (e.g., some early-modern extracts from the lost books of the
Crown Tribunal), 755 tribunal acts (1589–1647) are known, in which 48 representatives
of this family (27 men and 21 women) were mentioned. Since the
extension of the Crown Tribunal jurisdiction to their “native” Volyn’ Voivodeship,
they have been actively involved in the functioning of this judicial institution.
This activity persisted for the next six decades, which accounted for
three generations of the Jełowicki family’s actions. Although the frequency
of the presence of some members of the family in the Tribunal decreased
somewhat over the years, the number of Jełowicki involved in tribunal trials
increased. Almost every member of the family was mentioned on the pages
of tribunal acts at least once. During this period, no more than a dozen male
and female representatives of the Jełowickis were active in the Tribunal. The
presence of the latter was quantitatively more noticeable (and even equal
with the men from the Jełowicki family). Moreover, women were three times
less likely to be admitted to the Tribunal, ultimately in most cases assisted by
men, parents, or brothers. Instead, widows participated more independently
and regularly in trials, with several of them accounting for the main part of
the Jełowickis “female” representation in the Crown Tribunal.
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