Płock Voivodeship (1495–1793)

Płock Voivodeship

Województwo płockie
Palatinatus Plocensis

Voivodeship of Poland¹
1495–1793

Coat of arms

The Płock Voivodeship in
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital| Płock
Area|

| 3,591 km2 (1,386 sq mi)
History|

• Established

| 1495

• Second partition

| 25 September 1793
Political subdivisions| counties: 8, including three counties of Zawkrze Land

Preceded by | Succeeded by

|

|  | Duchy of Masovia

|

| South Prussia |

|

Today part of| Poland
¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569.

Płock Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Płockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1495 until the partitions of Poland in 1795. Together with the Rawa Voivodeship and Masovian Voivodeship it formed the historical region of Mazovia, and with several other voivodeships it formed part of the Greater Poland Province.

Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of Płock Voivodeship:

"After childless death of Janusz II, Duke of Łomża, Ciechanów, Wizna and Płock, which took place on February 16, 1495, the Duchy of Płock, except for the Land of Wyszogród, was incorporated into the Kingdom of Poland, and turned into a voivodeship (...) In the 16th century, it had the area of 701 square miles, divided into eight small counties: those of Płock, Bielsk, Raciąż, Sierpc, Płońsk, Szrensk, Niedzborz, and Mława. The three last counties, located between the Wkra river and Prussian border, made the so-called Zawkrze Land (...) The voivodeship had 67 Roman-Catholic parishes, 63 towns and 1,115 villages. Most densely populated was Bielsk County (...)

Local sejmiks for the voivodeship took place at Raciąż, the town located in the middle of the province. During the reign of King Stanisław II Augustus, the sejmiks were moved to Płock. The voivodeship had five senators: the Bishop of Płock, the Voivode of Płock, the Castellan of Płock, and Castellans of Raciaz and Sierpc. Land courts were located in Płock, Bielsk and Sierpc (since 1726, also in Mława)".

## Municipal government

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Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:

* Płock

Regional council (sejmik) seats:

* Raciaz, later Płock

## Administrative division

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* Płock County,
* Bielsk County,
* Raciąż County,
* Sierpc County,
* Płońsk County,

Zawkrze Land, divided into the following counties

* Szreńsk County,
* Niedzbórz County,
* Mława County.

## Cities and towns

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Source:[1]

### Bielsk County

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* Bielsk
* Drobin

### Mława County

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* Mława

### Niedzbórz County

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* Niedzbórz

### Płock County

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* Płock

### Płońsk County

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* Płońsk

### Raciąż County

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* Raciąż
* Radzanów

### Sierpc County

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* Bieżuń
* Sierpc

### Szreńsk County

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* Karniszyn
* Kuczbork
* Lubowidz
* Poniatowo
* Stare Dłutowo
* Szreńsk
* Żuromin

## Voivodes

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* Krzywosąd (1299)[2]
* Ziemak (1303)
* Stanisław Krasiński (since 1600)
* Jan Stanisław Karnkowski (1617–1647)
* Jan Kazimierz Krasiński (since 1650)
* Jan Dobrogost Krasiński (since 1688)

## References

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1. ^ Mazowsze w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz.1, Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. pp. 3–4.
2. ^ Kazimierz Pacuski, Możnowładztwo i rycerstwo ziemi gostynińskiej w XIV i XV wieku, Warszawa 2009, p. 30.

## Sources

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* Płock Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger

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Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Province of
Greater Poland|

* Brześć Kujawski
* Chełmno
* Gniezno
* Inowrocław
* Kalisz
* Łęczyca
* Malbork
* Masovian
* Płock
* Pomeranian
* Poznań
* Rawa
* Sieradz
* Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

Province of
Lesser Poland|

* Bełz
* Bracław
* Chernihów
* Kiev
* Kraków
* Lublin
* Podlaskie
* Podolian
* Ruthenian
* Sandomierz
* Volhynia
* Duchy of Siewierz
* Duchy of Siveria (1619–1635)

Grand Duchy of
Lithuania|

* Brest Litovsk
* Minsk
* Mstsislaw
* Nowogródek
* Połock
* Smolensk
* Trakai
* Vilnius
* Vitebsk
* Duchy of Samogitia

Polish Livonia|

* Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621): Dorpat, Parnawa, Wenden
* Inflanty (1621–1772)

Fiefs|

* Lębork and Bytów Land
* Duchy of Prussia
* Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
* Principality of Moldavia

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