Konstantynowicz ancestry from the Grand duchy of Lithuania

I concluded in my genealogical search that among Konstantynowicz ancestry who live in Poland are two or three separate groups:

Ancestry of the Konstantynowiczs who derived from present BUKOVINA (1775 to Austrian Empire) at the border Ukraine on Roumania; they were (in the 19th century) Greek perhaps and after 1945 they regarded as (in part, by authorities) Ukrainians and were displaced (partially) to the Mazury (East Prussia). Most of them live today in south - easterly Poland. They had own coat of arms GRECUL (GREKUL) in time of the Austria - Hungarys’ Galicia at the beginning of the 19th cent. (Bazyli and Michal Konstantynowicz 1803). I take note of them in ODESSA and Tschernowzy (= Chernovits) 1939 - 1940 and KIEV (data from Internet) after the second World War.

Probably our ancestry with the name of Konstantynowicz derive from belorussian ancestry (Senko Czyzewicz and his son Konstanty Czyz) Czyz; Polish as early as the 16th century and professing catholicism, owned arms of FOX proper since

or Marcin Czyz Nieczycki (or Nietecki because different opinions have been passed upon him; full information on the Fox arms in Lithuania and Belarus, see: http://www.geocities.com/konstanbogdan) who was born c. 1495.

Konstantynowicz Czyz unknown of name (or Konstantinowicz who was born c. 1530 or Michno Konstantynowicz ?) was withdrawn in the last will and testament of his father in 1547 and destitute of a legacy which daughter Margaret inherited; she had got some brothers.

Part of these Czyz from neighbourhood of LIDA (either Nieciecz or Nieczyca, 9 km from Lida)

have accepted the Konstantynowicz surname (from Christian name of father according to Leszczyc 1908/13, Konstiantin or Kostiantin = Konstantin that is "steadfast, constant"), adopted the armorial bearings of FOX proper and moved out to the Trakai district and thence to the MINSK province

The oldest information about a Konstantynowicz nickname, but not about the Fox coat of arms, go back to 07 October 1515 (according to Jan Ciechanowicz) and to the Hrodna area:

Jakub (= Jakov) Konstantynowicz sued to a court his neighbour Tolloczko. Then the nest of them was in a villages Toloczki, Ejsmonty and Jurewicze in the Hrodna region with a Pielesz diverse coat of arms. His relative surely Olechno Konstantynowicz held a post in the Hrodna municipal tribunal in 1539. He sued his neighbour Dowtortowicz in 1542. Both of named the Konstantynowiczs were the landowners of their Duke. However we are lacking information that they had the Fox coat of arms proper already and I don't know if the Konstantynowicz nickname was the surname by this date! Or it maybe the name Konstantynowicz was only an "otchestvo" (by-name) id est a form deriving from the name Konstanty or Konstantyn with oriental ending "wicz" (= vich). It's not unlikely that Jakub was a father of Olechno and Michno Konstantynowicz but there is no probability on proved of the thesis. Michno and Olechno that's very popular form of Belorussian names with ending "-no" and "-ko" in the 15th and 16th cent.; I give others examples (this is extra information for a certain regular reader): Senko Miloszewicz from Ostryna 1528, Iwanko and Misko Miloszewicz in Podlasie, Mitko from Vicebsk province in 1528, Mleczko from Vilkmerge 1467, Piotr Olechnowicz (surname from Christian name of father) 1501, Senko Mikolajewicz 1514, Szymko Mikolajewicz from Upita, Jacko son of Mikula Wasilkowicz A.D. 1525, Mitko (=Mikolaj) Mickiewicz with Fox arms et ceteri and also little villages exempli gratia Olechnowszczyzna in the Minsk province; besides I found out about Dmitrei son of Konstantin in the 15th century, Polut Konstiantinowic' mid 15th century, Kostiantinowic' Semen mid 15th century, Chebotko Konstiantinow in 1540 and Fedor Konstentinow son of Spits 1552. I was faced with the difficult task of collecting information and differing interpretations about origin of our ancestry. You have to be careful with final claims and theses for some years and in passing judgement on first person with the Konstantynowicz surname. A person with a Konstantynowicz nickname in the first half of 16th cent. didn't has to be the person with the Konstantynowicz surname. The Konstantynowicz ancestry with Fox coat of arms proper lived only in the Trakai district (i.e. district of Troki since c. 1550) and in the Minsk province (since c. 1570) by c. 1600, also in the Slonim area (after c. 1600) and in Vilna = Wilno after c. 1640 as good as proves it all armorials. One of string evidences say us for example that the record of common noble movement in 1528 doesn't point to persons with Konstantynowicz surname in any districts of Lithuania according to all historical sources. I called it purposely to the attention of you.

received a big estate, an arable ground and forested land from the king Sigismund Augustus on

was situated in the Merkine = Merecz area, Merkine parish (the Troki district in the ex-province of Troki), beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas); the above Merkine farmland was situated next to estuary of Merkys = Mereczanka river (a chief officer for life of the Merkine area (= Meretium or Merken area) was Jan Janowicz Zabrzezinski i.e. Zaberezenski since 1536) and the same Michno possessed a landed property

49 km N-W-N of Lida in the Troki or Trakai district, too (close by a south - easterly border of the former Trakai district) as early as

by initial course of Merkys river in the Turgeliai parish, 38 km S-E-S of Vilnius.

This fact noted down in an armorials of the Grand duchy of Lithuania:

A legend was about the beginning of the Konstantynowicz ancestry. Many said that our ancestry (family) has come from the BALKANS according to "Gutenberg Encyclopaedia" (volume 8); many said that the ancestry had got to descent from Serbian ancestor (janczar), who was Turkish soldier 1455 - 1463, who was afterwards in POLAND (that is 1470 or 1471); he has written memoirs here (1496 - 1501) about title "(...) the Turkish chronicle (...)". One copy was in the SAPIEHA Archive. The main edition of 1912 misleaded many of our ancestors.

I am looking for all persons with Konstantynowicz surname whose ancestors (as a whole 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th cent.)

This is “who is who?” among the family of Konstantynowicz in short. That isn’t a family tree. I can’t give many more information about the question for the sake of my copyright. Many people have helped me with this paper. The author is greatly indebted to all those who kindly supplied information. Especially acknowledgement for a military archives in Poland and England and a civil archives in Argentina. I inform all readers of visit at my main website http://www.geocities.com/bog4konsta 4453 times on January 10th, 2005 and this page was made on March 9th, 2003; my four "geocities" 8744 times (only single openings .html), and were made in March 2003. Thank you and I invite you again. It will be myriad information about persons in the named Belorussian villages and estates in 2004 and translation into Polish in 2005.

We should like that you write back (English, Russian, Belorussian, Polish languages but without Russian, Polish and Belorussian types) to me only at the E-mail address (remove "NOSPAM" from address):

Thank you for your letter! I will acknowledge your letter in my answer. I don't give any genealogical information from a letters (electronic or postal) of my correspondents and their families. It's as good as saying your letter and data about yours ancestry are secret for other people for the sake of protection privacy. The author of the website doesn't bear any responsibility for independent activity of the NAVIGATOR, KOT, OLAWA, PAWEL and SPECTATOR (exceptionally interesting discussion on the Konstantynowiczs here: http://genforum.genealogy.com/belarus/messages/1399.html ).

Besides I inform that a certain individuals created a false paid website at the address: geocities.com/bog3konsta and similar others in January and July 2004. It is not me! The "bog3konsta" website has nothing to do with Konstantynowicz. Respectable readers know all my seven addresses in Internet and here I does nothing. Besides I inform that a certain offenders created a false website with my text at the address: Soino : University Results Page - soino.h2.ro/Pagini/Aurii in April. The above named websites has nothing to do with Bogdan Konstantynowicz. You take account of deceits: "berezynabogdan" at aol.com - this is not my E-mail address and "berezynabogdan" at yahoo.com - this is not my E-mail address, too.

Here you can to read about noble ancestries deriving from former Mscislau province, mainly there are Polish and Byelorussian families, e.g. about Holynski, Wollowicz, Puszkin, Brujewicz, Polubinski, Hurko and others. An information on Polish exiles in Siberia are at the website, too. Also about Polish rebellion near by the Lake Baikal in 1866. Here is description of the January Insurrection 1863 in the Ihumen (Cerven) district and also in the Mahileu government; and theory about the Fox and Pielesz coats of arms in the Grand duchy of Lithuania.

Here you can to acquaint with information about former Ihumen district and with data on the Polish in the parish of Berezino. Here there are details with Brzezinski family from Livland. It's a large part devoted to Polish senior officers in Tsarist Army and that next served for the 1st Polish Corps in Belarus in 1917 - 1918. Here is history of the Balachowicz's troops in 1917 - 1921.

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Here you will read about different lines and branches of the Konstantynowiczs from Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and now from Poland; and about emigrants in America and at others continents. This is my main website. Why not read that site? There are very interesting data about DEKA air company from St Petersburg, about the Boncz Brujewicz family and on my grandfather - Tsarist and Polish soldier in 1912/1916 - 1947. At every websites you will find out information about Szostak, Zbieranowski and Malkiewicz families, and also interesting links to genealogical sites and into historical pages.

in France and Perugia (a province of Umbrien) according to "Lista degli scolari (...)" of 1598.

The Konstantynowicz ancestry used a POCHOWICZ by-name (or the Pohozy, Pohosha, Pohowicz, Rokoz and Pokoz nicknames, information of 1937) since A.D. 1600.

handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa; from named Mikolay derived Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz.

All descendants only with the Fox coat of arms proper in the 17th cent. and with our Konstantynowicz surname came from Michno Konstantynowicz:

region of Brest (1664 Jedrzej i.e. Andrew Konstantynowicz was the mayor of Brest and Roman Konstantynowicz was a priest of the Greek Church in Jelna, c. 12 km away from Scucyn perhaps, A.D. 1667);

the others of the Konstantynowicz ancestry lived in the central MINSK province yet (the villages Babianowszczyzna = Buchta, Little Loszyca in the Koroliszczewice parish, a region of Siennica, Koroleszczenicze or Koroliszczewice and others; Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz as early as 1643 and Jan Konstantynowicz in 1698; consecutive Jan Konstantynowicz was born in the Minsk province at the beginning of the 18th cent. and possessed here the village Buchta = Baguta at present); in the SLONIM district (Hermogen Konstantynowicz wrote down in a tribunal documents with his neighbour Mizgier in 1603 and Michal Konstantynowicz, he signed the Olkienicka Alliance in 1698 and had coat of arms Radwan call Plawski); in the province of VILNA (Jozef Konstantynowicz Master of Arts, published "Decisio controversiae juris canonici (...)" in 1647 and Stefan who was a member of the municipal board of Vilna in 1665 and information about him in 1669; Symon (= Szymon) Konstantynowicz was a deputy to the Warsaw general confederation in 1668; in the Vilna district was lady Maryna Konstantynowicz in 1673; Franciszek Konstantynowicz lived in the town Vilna in 1686 and he witnessed a riot) and PINSK (call Pokoz 1674).

The Konstantynowicz ancestry with our coat of arms was also in PORAZAVA (a landed property Porozov = Porosow near Vaukavysk in 1669) and in the region Paszkowszczyzna - Kuranec (Jan Konstantynowicz in the OSHMIANA ex-district 1690) near to Vilejka in the 17th century.

In the Hrodna district (Adam Konstantynowicz landowner near to Grodno with his neighbour Eysymont in 1646 and Bazyli Konstantynowicz who was a royal general in the Hrodna district 1664 - 1688). The Ejsmont ancestry (= Eysymont or Eysimont) was a neighbourhood of them, for the first time information of 1539, 1585 and in the Hrodna area of 1632, they were persecuted here in 1863; near of kin with the Lobaczewski ancestry in a place Great Eysmonty.

In the Trakai (Troki) district Krzysztof Konstantynowicz was a clerk of the district in 1669.

- a certain Konstantynowicz with the Fox arms commanded a Cossack troops that occupied quarters in a villages Krasiejewie and Iwaniki (the Pinsk district probably); on their stay rifled these places on 15 January 1665; the above Konstantynowicz commanded the Tartar troops in 1666 and mister Fastowicz and Gasiewski prosecuted the named in the Mscislau court (the Mscislau province) according to Jan Ciechanowicz;

- Augustyn Konstantynowicz (died 1713) was a clerk of the Lithuanian military confederation from 1661 to 1667 according to Jan Vladyslav Poczobutt - Odlanicki (b. 1640, d. 1703, memorials 1640 - 1684, supporter of the Pac ancestry).

Somebody (owned Fox coat of arms according to an armorial of 1914) pro tempore among Cossacks near to Perejaslav in 1756 and somebody in Greater Poland afterwards in the 18th century, too.

1. the Minsk province: Koroleszczenicze (= the parish of Koreliszczewicze) near to Minsk and the holding Little Loszyca 4 km NW of Koroleszczenicze (this is a piece of information for my regular readers); we were in the Buchta (= Babianowszczyzna in the parish of Luzki that is Lushki west of Smolevicze or Smaljavicy = Smolevichi), here Jan and his sons Maciej, Pavel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin in the first half of the 18th century;

2. near to Braslau (or Braslaw), SE of Dyneburg; they were close to the ancestry of Beynar - Bejnarowicz, coat of arms Novina - Zlotogolenczyk;

5. in Volhynia (1729 with the title "palatinus Kijoviensis" to Bazyli Konstantynowicz);

6. the families Konstantynowicz survived in the Hrodna area in the 18th cent. according to S. Koscialovski ("Antoni Tyzenhaus", volume 1, p. 646); in the Grodno (= Hrodna) province was an information on 19 April 1764 about Jozef Konstantynowicz and the same Jozef in 1765; besides in 1765: Antoni, Jan, Dominik, Benedykt and Leon served their country;

7. Jan Konstantynowicz and Michal in the Vilna (Wilno) area in 1779 (they lived in the Hrodna district, too). It hasn't a signatures of persons with the Konstantynowicz surname from the Grand duchy of Lithuania (without the Polish Ukraine: Podolia and Volhynia) in a documents of the Sluck Protestant Confederation of 1767.

we possessed in part a landed property Pileszyszki in the Kaunas district in the 18th cent. (since 1766 bequeathed by lady Junowicz); here lived Maciej Konstantynowicz; the same Maciej had brothers: Pavel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin. The brothers received (1798) after their parents (father Jan Konstantynowicz was born at the beginning of the 18th cent.) the Babianowszczyzna = Buchta estate in the Minsk province (government then); their ancestry verified the nobleness in Vilna 1842.

We lived in a district of RASEINIAI (Rosienie = Rossienie): parish of Sartyniki (or Sartininkai) in the place Komcie A.D. 1799; Jan and his son Waclaw Konstantynowicz with coat of arms Bowel call Svarplovicz were here c. 1650; Mariampole = Marijampole (the Augustov government in the forties of the 19th century; two of Konstantynowicz were the members of the Democratic Polish Society); in Kaunas and the locality Chwiedziejowszczyzna or Chwedziejowszczyzna in the Trakai district, the ex-parish Vysoki Dvor or Aukstadvaris and after other parish (Uzuguostis probably); near to Vladipolis, Alesiskes, Beizionys, Mergiskes and Mackantiskes - 7 km from Aukstadvaris on the east; neighbouring families: Mackiewicz (they had a farm Zailgi = Stecki in the Trakai district c. 1690), Klidzianka and Jeleniewski.

We possessed the Ustron estate in the Kaunas district (= region of Kovno) in the 19th cent. and at the beginning of the 20th century. Only one of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna 1910 and information about four lines of this branch was lacking.

we partly moved house to the EAST BELARUS in the MSCISLAU province near to KRYCAU = Kritschew or Kritchev (we had eight hundred peasants here), MSCISLAU = Mstislavl and in the region northwards of MSCISLAU (the villages Samava = Chamovo at the map of 1834, Kopceuka, Niesterevo – the Berezetnia estate), where Swedes looted their estates in August A.D. 1708:

- Piotr Konstantynowicz who was born circa 1610 in the Minsk province; he lived in the Mscislau province A.D. 1669

- Augustyn Konstantynowicz (the municipal and territorial writer, born c. 1635, had died 1713 or before 1713)

- Antoni Konstantynowicz in 1763 (the Second Manifesto of Lithuanian Nobility)

The Konstantynowicz ancestry from eastern BELARUS (near to Krycau - Antoni Konstantynowicz was born c. 1833, Mscislau, Samava) is my family.

after the 1st Partition of POLAND this territory was already in Russia, as Government of Mahileu, I am afraid.

They partly have moved out to the east MINSK government, to the BEREZYNA parish after circa

(the village is situated 28 kilometres south - east from Berezyna = Berezino, Berezina, Berazino; more details and chorography:

here lived Antoni and his son Stanislav; named Stanislav Konstantynowicz from Miezonka and Anna nee Malkiewicz are parents of my grandfather; my great - grandmother Anna nee Malkiewicz came from (Werchnedwinsk =) Dryssa ujezd (Asveja Related Links for asveja - wordIQ.com) in the Government of Vicebsk; she was near akin to FILIPOWICZ ancestry;

Piotrowicz from Luboszany, Karp, Zywica (Shywica), Korbut from Hrynica (Grenica), Tatur (near of kin Zbieranowski), Dzierzynski (Dziershynski close to Tumilovicz), Nieciejevski (their coat of arms verified in the Minsk goverment in 1836), Milkiewicz (and not Malkiewicz), Stankiewicz (among other things Antoni, Walerian and Jan the sons of Stepan). See also:

The Czapski family

from Stankov and Przyluki leased Miezonka from Stefan Radzivill in the first half of the 19th century (information of 1995).

- to St Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century (Michal or Michail son of Fiodor II Konstantynowicz);

- to Minsk in the eighties of the 19th century (Bonifacy II Konstantynowicz);

- near to LIDA in the noble locality Nosewicze or Nosowicze (the Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Fox coat of arms) in the 19th century; the village Nosewicze is situated 6 kilometres S-E-S from Radun’ or Radunsk, in the parish of Radun’; the Vilna government, former district of LIDA; those neighbours: a. the Hryhorowicz ancestry (or Hrehorowicz); b. the Laskowski ancestry; c. the Laskowicz ancestry or Leskowicz; d. the Nossewicz ancestry; e. Rouba; f. the Stecewicz ancestry; g. Stecki; h. Wincza; i. Zapasnik; j. Zemojtel or Zomojtel;

- we were near to HRODNA in the thirties of the 19th century (area of Skidal: the places Jurevicze, Zytomlja = Jitomlia at the map of 1834, Tolloczki = Toloczki: Jozef Konstantynowicz born c. 1845/50 and Adam born c. 1840/45; Ejsmonty (neighbourhood: a families Lobaczevski, Lukaszevic Fox arms and Eysymont - after 1863 oppressed): here lived Kazimierz Konstantynowicz who was born c. 1850 in Toloczki; Orechovicze: Walenty Konstantynowicz was born here A.D. 1870 and his brother Stefan);

- to Hrodna in the early eighties of the 19th century (Adam Konstantynowicz);

- near to Kazlouscyna (the village Butlerovszczyzna; Napoleon Konstantynowicz lived here, born c. 1825, colonel of the January Insurrection 1863) after the November Insurrection, then in the thirties of the 19th century;

- also near to Svencionys = Svencionus: the places Paragiszki = Paringis, Podciejkinie, Saule = Savuliai in the Zablociszki region = "volost" (by the Szwintelka river near to Ceikiniai); that is the Zacisze estate by the small river Ejsiata in the Daugeliskis parish by circa 1865 and next property of Sviatecki ancestry - information of 1886;

- and to the Dryssa ujezd (the district of Verchnjadzvinsk = Werchnedwinsk): the villages Old Svolna and Svolna - about here count Jozef Zarako Zarakowski;

- the Konstantynowicz ancestry also moved out to the “Polish Livland” (LATVIA today): the parish of MALNOV (the place Malnovskoi in the district of Ludza = Ludsen) near to Karsava, village Kovalki or Kowali; many persons (a Roman Catholics in the district) laid off from bureaus in the Vicebsk government after 1863:

- the Zapole farm (in the POLACK ujezd, either the Polotsk or Polozk district) in the government of Vicebsk; their neighbours: Kuzarevski, Nevelski, Reutt, Veryho;

- they lived in BUDSLAU in the sixties of the 19th century (Jakov born c. 1810/1820 and his children Semen, Wikentij and Malvina Mancevicz), district of Vilejka, too;

- we were in Volhynia, the Russian Empire in the 19th century. I take note of them in a certain village near to Wlodzimierz Wolynski = Vladimir in the middle of XIX cent. (Ukraine now), SOKAL (Austrian Empire formerly) and near to Wisniowiec in Volhynia (Russia 1876 and what coat of arms ?) before the first World War. Adam Konstantynowicz was born in Vladimir c. 1800/1805, officer of the November Insurrection 1831 - that's the Volhynia Unknown Branch. More inf. about the 19th cent., see: http://www.geocities.com/bog4konsta

The Konstantynowicz ancestry verified noble descent in the nineteenth century:

- a documentation of the noble Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Fox coat of arms proper was being shown in Minsk (Stanislaw Wankowicz was the government marshal in 1802) on 15 December 1802; they derived from Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz of the Minsk province; he had 3 sons: Stefan, Hrehory Dmitr and Jozef; they owned some farmlands in the province of Minsk and carried out a positions in the first half of the seventeenth century; above Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz has got a privilege of 07 March 1643 handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa; Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz who lived in the Minsk government in 1802 derived from named Mikolay, according to the Minsk State Archives;

- we submitted to the authority in Vilna on 19 May 1842 an original of privilege edited by the king Sigismund Augustus on 04 January 1554 to Michno Konstantynowicz who was endowed with estate in the Merecz area and submitted many of documents of 18th cent.; at that time verified themselves a persons derived from the Minsk government i.e. from a Babianowszczyzna = Buchta holding (Baguta 15 km west of Smaljavicy, at the border of former Barysau distrtict on the Minsk district in the 19th cent.); they were in Pileszyszki in the Kovno region after 1766, too:

Jan Konstantynowicz and his sons Maciej, Pavel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek, Marcin and sons of the above Maciej: Jan II and Michal (childless); from Jan II his sons Adam (childless) and Michal (his sons Walenty Stanislaw, Konstanty, Jan Stanislaw, Jozef Andrzej and Alfons Onufry - they were born by 1840);

- Antoni (son of Dominik derived from area of Krycau) in Hrodna 1861;

- besides others: Aleksander Konstantynowicz from the government of Poltava (Ukraine now) verified the noble descent in Kishinev A.D. 1893. He was general - lieutenant and governor of the Turgayski region (Arkalyk capital) in the 19th cent. After the Bessarabia governor. His relative Piotr Konstantynowicz was general, too. His sister Anna was the second wife of Jan Wernadskij (he was born 1821, died 1884 in Peterburg = St Petersburg; son of Vasilii) and she worked as a teacher in Petersburg just before 1862. His next of kin was Michal or Michail son of Fiodor 2nd Konstantynowicz; he was born 1812, died 1867; doctor after completion of the Kharkov University; served in the Russian army and after assistant director of the medical - military department 1862; he wrote a lot of researches and theses - with F. Augustynowicz, Trappe, Lebiediew, too (information of 1898);

- 1799 in the Kaunas territory and Samaites (other coat of arms thereabouts). Only one of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna A.D. 1910 and data on four lines of this branch were lacking. An Konstantynowicz ancestry with the coat of arms Bowel had an estate Poszeszow in the Raseiniai ex-district in the middle of the 16th century. In Vilna (1841) authorized the arms of them and nine generations and 57 male persons: Jan Konstantynowicz and his son Waclaw with the nickname Szwarplowicz c. 1650 and grandsons Jan and Michal - them sons: Krzysztof and Stanislaw; Krzysztof had a sons: Andrzej, Jan and Jerzy; the named Michal had a son Stanislaw and grandson Jerzy; it were 13 persons at the end of 18th cent. and 25 persons c. 1830: Nikodem, Jakub, Wincenty, Michal, Kasper, Teodor, Ludwik, Antoni, Kajetan and Teofil. To this lineage Konstantynowicz were related the Konstantynowiczs with Fox arms proper from Pileszyszki in the Kaunas (here in 1766) district; they derived from famous Michno Konstantynowicz who received the big estate: an arable ground and forested land from the king Sigismund Augustus (Zygmunt August) on 04 January 1554; the farmland was in the Merkine = Merecz area, beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas) by the Merkys = Mereczanka river;

- 1817 in the Hrodna district and at a later date they verified privilege of 1578 handed over by the king Stephen Bathory but with another armorial bearings i.e. "two swords (some documents from Sankt Petersburg Archive - disclosure to Pavel in the beginning of August 2004; the two swords might represent the military service of two brothers, and the star above might signify a successful military engagement, as somebody wrote in successive phase of public discussion about the noble Konstantynowicz family, that commenced in the middle of August 2004 in the web net, but the discussion is led by strange persons, not from our roots) which constitute a cross, and a star above them, and feathers of ostrich below (above, I think) the helmet".

I explain the problem to you (on September 10th, 2004): two naked crossing swords without gold head this is fundamental Pielesz arms (Pielesh, Gyfn - priest Wojciech Wijuk Kojalowicz, "Armorial of the Grand duchy of Lithuania knights, so-called Compendium" had written on the Pielesz crest c. 1650, ed. in Cracow 1897: two swords at red field of shield and three feathers from ostrich above - plate, p. 212; it were four families with the Pielesz arms: Ielskj i.e. Jelskij - some with cross among swords, inf. of 1620, 1632 in the Mscislau province and of 1648, Kwasnickj Golden i.e. Kvasnickij or Kwasnicki Golden derived from Moscow, Pieleszyc in the Vicebsk province, and also Wloszek family from Podlasie - inf. 1584; the Golocki family of the Golocki arms according to Kasper Niesiecki, vol. 4 ed. in Lipsk 1839, p. 174 - here effigy of the Golocki coat of arms, two swords on the shield, diagonally crossing with hilts upwards and a cap at the helmet - the shield is the same what the Pielesz one; the family came from Chelmno area in Poland; estates: Goloty, Sarnov near by Grudziadz, Melno, inf. of 1651; moreover Golocki family also with the Pielesz diverse according to T. Gajl, p. 67: a cap and two feathers above crown, and beneath two swords with golden hilts upwards in the shield; according to Seweryn Uruski, "Family. The Armorial of Polish nobility", vol. 13, 1916, p. 330: Pielesz family of the Pielesz arms in Lithuania, the district of Panevezys, near by Upita in 1580, also as Pieleszyc; Pieleszyc family with the Pielesz diverse arms - sabres instead of swords in the shield; is said that is the same family what Pielesz; according to J. Ostrowski, p. 437, here plate of the Pielesz arms: two swords with hilts downwards in the shield and three feathers above crown); the Wloszek arms (Vloshek family according to Gajl, p. 246 - with the Pielesz diverse coat of arms, by turns from top to toe: bird above two hunting hornes, crown, shield - two swords with golden hilts and four roses between blades; Wloszek family with own Wloszek arms: coat of arms without helmet, and in the shield two crossing swords with golden hilts in palms and three roses between blades; the Wloszek arms come from the Pielesz crest; Niesiecki, vol. 9, 1842, had written about Wloszek family of the Pielesz diverse arms - they added four white roses in red field; Bielski, Paprocki and Okolovich wrote, too) resulted from link between the Pielesz arms and the Roses coat of arms (i.e. Poraj); the Pielesz coat of arms belong to a Sword group (the Kownia arms, Herburt crest, three swords and Pielesz come from the sword group); the Swords are in 19 arms and variants joined with another objects.

Adding of one star extra to the Pielesz armorial bearings resulted in unknown arms for Mieroszowski (plate 10, pieces 1 - 15, ed. of 1887). It's a Pielesz diverse coat of arms according to me !

This was formerly the Grand duchy of Lithuania from which they came (1795 dissolution of the state). All the direct descendants are from there (Belarus /Belorussia /White Russia/ Byelorussia) thereafter.

- THE HRODNA BRANCHES (FROM KAZIMIERZ BORN C. 1850, JOZEF BORN C. 1845/50, ADAM BORN C. 1840/45 AND WALENTY FROM ORECHOVICZE OR ORECHVICZE);

- THE BRANCHES FROM THE MINSK GOVERNMENT (earliest branch from Jan Konstantynowicz 1698; earlier branches from Gawryla, Jakow, Daniil (Daniel), Fiodor, Martin (Marcin) and from Leon; later branches from Bonifacy II, Antoni, Wilhelm, Pavel and from Jerzy II);

- THE MSCISLAU BRANCH (FROM DOMINIK and his brothers); my ancestry from the Mscislau area derived from - according to the oral tale - a region by Mereczanka river (= Merkys river), then from Michno Konstantynowicz with the Fox coat of arms proper, where the same possessed forest (1554) and the property of Zaleskowszczyzna (1552) but we weren't told that the Konstantynowicz ancestry derived from Toloczki; the same Michno was put down in a judicial documents of the Troki district in 1552. I don't know doubtless if Michno was from the Czyz ancestry as Leszczyc wrote in 1908; from which he came? Was he born c. 1530 near to Lida or near to Hrodna? Searching for an evidences last at present. I don't know surely if Michno was stripped of the assets by his sister in 1547. All proofs show the Troki district by the Mereczanka river as the nest of our beginning and never even one point to the Hrodna district.

All descendants with the Fox coat of arms proper only and with our Konstantynowicz surname come from the above Michno Konstantynowicz.

- THE KAUNAS BRANCHES (PIOTR AND HIS SON VLADYSLAV BORN 1891);

- AND THE UNKNOWN OTHERS BRANCHES (the Konstantynowiczs sealed themselves six armorial bearings: Fox proper, Bowel, Three Crosses, Radwan, the Pielesz diverse crest and Ours of the Konstantynowicz ancestry i.e. Grekul).

We were in the central and eastern Minsk government in the middle of the 19th cent.:

- Zamostocze in the Minsk district (= uyezd), the region of Siennica, the parish of Koreliszczewicze; residents in this Polish noble locality at the end of the 19th cent.: Platovski, Narejko, Janczevski, Suchocki, Rzeczycki, Pavlovicz, Mazurkievicz, Ancielevski and our ancestry

- Luzki = Lushki (7 km west of Smolevicze = Smaljavicy, ex-Barysau distrtict) in the Minsk government at the beginning of the 19th cent.; here was a teacher and priest Tadeusz Konstantynowicz in 1812

- Ozeryszcze = Ozdryszcze in the Ihumen (= Igumen, Igoumen either Tscherwen or Cerven, Cherven) district

- Little Loszyca in the Minsk district (the Koroliszczewice parish; neighbourhood of them: Pawlowski, Kostrowicki and Narcyz Torczynski; the village was situated in the Siennica = Sienica region that is "volost") and a certain village near to Barysau, here Stefan Konstantynowicz in the early 20th century

- Konstantynov (the noble small village near to the river Usza = Usa, 5 kilometres from Borovina north; close to border of the Ihumen district) in the Barysau district

- BOROVINA in the Ihumen (Cherven) district, here Ludvik Konstantynowicz and his son Jan born 1888, who has gone into the army of Balachowicz 1920

- MIEZONKA in the Ihumen district (in the GOVERNMENT OF MINSK, the parish of BERAZINO or BERESINO, the POHOST or Pogost region = Pogostskaya "volost" that is similar to county; PRECINCT BERAZINO

= Uchastok No 2: Uyrevichskaya, Pogostskaya and the Belichanskaya volost; near to villages DULEBO (= Duleby) and DRUCZANY; here Stanislav Konstantynowicz born c. 1855 + Anna Malkiewicz daughter of Konstancja Brzezinski from the “Polish Livland” = Livonia).

There was a certain of the Konstantynowicz branch from the Irkutsk government in the Congress Poland (near Makov and thereafter Ciechanov) after exile to Siberia at the end of the 19th cent. (Gavryla born c. 1820 and his children Zenon and Patrycjusz an exile to IRKUTSK 1864 + Anastazja Mierzejevski). A document relating to the grant estates (their territory was situated at the frontier with Russia after the war 1654 - 1667) upon the ancestry was in Mikashovka vicarage till 1945.

i.e. joint stock company from St Petersburg. It was co-property of the Mscislau branch.

1912	Only five of airships had been built in Russia before 1914 and we exactly constructed (the fifth in order) to Russian Army in the plant of DEKA an airship named "Kobchik" type "Blimp" as early as 1912 (with two engines 45hp, and length 48m; speed 50km/h according to "Taschenbuch der Luftflotten", 1st Issue 1914, Vol. 1 "Airships" by F. Rasch and W. Hormel, published in Germany, worked out by Thomas Heinz http://www.internetelite.ru/aircrafts/airships.html). Airship i.e. an aircraft that consists of a cigar-shaped gas bag, or envelope, filled with a lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, a propulsion system, a steering mechanism, and a gondola accommodating passengers, crew, and cargo. For more than a century the principal lighter-than-air gas for both balloons and airships was hydrogen, the lightest of the elements, despite its being highly dangerous because of its extreme flammability. *NON-**RIGID* airships, now commonly known as blimps, are the most common type in use. The non-rigid airship has no frame and the envelope holds its shape due to the pressurized lifting gas inside. The DEKA company owned an infrastructure for airships i.e. a hangar, workshops and warehouses in St Petersburg before the First world war. War, revolution and civil war interrupted further development until 1920, when the Soviets built their first small blimp.
1914	We manufactured here an electrical accessory and magnetos for aeroengines (aero engines) in the beginning of the First world war.
1916	DEKA built up the military manufactory of aeroengines in a town Aleksandrovsk in 1916. The Stavka (Supreme High Command of the Russian Military) was interested in such experimental production with advanced technology in actuality and this headquarters laid down actual line of research into the mechanical powers Deka for aircraft, e.g. general P. W. Pniewski ordered to enforce norms of special steel for aeroengines in Petrograd at the end of 1916. The "Main war - technical board" under W. A. Semkowski concluded a big contract with joint stock company of electrical firms (i.e. particular, separate businesses from Duflon, Konstantynowicz and Co. abbreviated as DEKA) from Petrograd on 01 February 1916 in order to construct in the plant of DEKA two experimental aircrafts of professor Gheorghe Botezat by 01 October 1917 (with aeroengine "Renault" and with a gyroscope - wheel which, when spinning fast, keeps steady the object in which it is fixed - the first automatic pilot) but the professor has been gone abroad earlier. The stock society DEKA received twice considerable government subsidies on research & development in 1916 but the magnetos to aero engines produced here continuously in co-operation with the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute (magneto i.e. electric apparatus for producing sparks in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine); and it was soon built the section of aeroengines in Zaporozhye under the general chief N. R. Brilling; the Mersedes (i.e. Mercedes) aero engines manufactured here in the second half of 1916 and expected 10 - 15 engines monthly (e.g. the Mercedes - type 100 hp from DEKA factory and ™Deka M-100 in Zaporozh'e as early as 28 September 1916, next DEKA 166/168/170 hp and it were produced here ten aero engines DEKA 129 hp with six cylinders monthly in the end of 1916, and DEKA M-170 hp in 1917; extra the "Benz" and "Mercedes" aero engines manufactured here in 1917); the major general Pniewski said in parliament about the DEKA company in November 1916: "This is the first aeroengine as a whole from Russian materials of experimental line of 5 pieces by 100 hp". The day of complete success - 28 September 1916. So incompetent paralleled researches into the Mercedes engines conducted in Germany Anthony Fokker who was from Holland and Heinrich Focke b. 1890.

1917

Comment on Zaporozhye:

Announcement on autonomy of Ukraine in April 1917 and the first Declaration of independence by Ukraine on 20 November 1917 involved Zaporozhye but shortly assumption of power by the Soviets in January 1918. "The Peace of Bread" concluded by Germany, Austria - Hungary and Turkey with the Ukraine: acceptance of the Ukr. state on 09 February 1918, and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 03 Mar. 1918 recognized the Ukraine as ind. state and thus the Austria - Hungarys’ Army occupied Zaporozhye since April by November 1918, after Skoropadsky and the Ukrainian Directory since November 1918 by March 1919, general Denikin since May 1919 by December 1919; general Vrangel by October 1920 and conquered by the Red Army then.

The DEKA engines were installed to power several modifications of four-engine "Ilya Muromets" aircraft (with the Argus engine too; for the first time attempted to produce "Benz" and "Argus" engines in the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works that evacuated from Riga to Petersburg in 1915 but 10 months waited for steel in 1915/16; more than 70 military versions of the "Ilia Mourometz" were built for use as bombers within 1913 - 1917; in all, 75 bombers were delivered, and roughly half of them saw combat; twenty similar airplanes had been produced in 1916 and five built in September 1916 were not noticed by military command - were probably with engines of experimental line of 5 pieces ™Deka M-100; 15 March 1916 the 1st Aero Squadron begins operations) developed by the famous aircraft designer Igor I. Sikorsky and his collaborator eng. Witold Jarkowski; outliving the fires of Civil War - sequestration by the Bolshevik authorities in January 1918 - "the factory has commenced to repair and then to manufacture the parts for Renault aircraft engines".

Comment on Gheorghe Botezat:

Gheorghe Botezat either doctor George, Geogrij, Georges A. de Bothezat or Georg A. Botezat, Botezatu, was born in Iasi i.e. Jassy in Romania 1883 or 1882 - died in Dayton, Ohio in USA 1940. Botezat learnt in Sereth, after in Sorbona and was a doctor in field of aviation; a Russian aeronautical engineer and mathematician; professor of the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute in the beginning of the First world war; worked for DEKA in Petrograd 1916 - 1917 and next he stayed in Iasi at the turn of 1918; wrote (1918) letter and report "General Theory of the Screw" (air-screw i.e. propeller of an aircraft); after he wrote off to Subcommittee on Buildings, Laboratories and Equipments in Feb. 1919 and (© by http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/bothezat-r.html ) the US Army Air Corps awarded a contract in January 1921 to Dr. George de Bothezat and Ivan Jerome (i.e. Eremeeff, Jeromiejew or Jerome - a millionaire inventor from Long Island and owner of the Massapequa Farmers Market, the 59-year old Jerome was arrested in 1955, freed on $100,000 bond, he jumped bail and disappeared; there were reports he had been seen everywhere from Russia to South America, but he was never found; © by http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory) to develop a vertical flight machine; this helicopter, designated the Engineering Division H-1 and designed by George De Bothezat and Ivan (Eremeeff) Jerome, made its first public flight on December 18, 1922; George de Bothezat's Army Helicopter Number 1 nicknamed "The Flying Octopus", possessed 1 x the 180 hp Le Rhone radial engine (Rhone 134 kW); a helicopter of ex-russian i.e. really moldavian or Romanian G. A. Botezat has taken off with 2 men aboard at 1.2 meters of altitude on 19 January 1923 but the US Air Force was more interested in autogyros and blocked funds to de Bothezat.

We lived in Vilna (the early 20th century Piotr Konstantynowicz son of Gustav - Piotr was married to Maria W.);

in Pinsk (Konstantynowicz Konstantyn) and Grodno (Hrodna) and near to Dzjatlava = Zdzieciol (the village Gronsk) and on the west of LIDA (the places Maluki, Zabalac = Zabalac' either Zabolot or Zablot', Przevoza, Volejsze, Kascjaneva) at the beginning of the 20th cent.;

in Minsk (Konstantynowicz Andrzej; brothers Jakov and Semen; Semen II (or Szymon) son of Jerzy II; Konstantynowicz Antoni; Adolf son of Wilhelm; Mikolaj son of Pavel) at the beginning of the 20th cent. and Daugavpils (or Dunaburg = Dvinsk);

in the government of Smolensk (district = ujezd of Dorohobuz 1913) and Vicebsk = Vitebsk (Jozef Konstantynowicz in September 1918) by their own account, too;

Jan Konstantynowicz (I check on the problem now) had died in the Karpaty mount as senior officer being in the Russian army in winter 1914/1915.

The Konstantynowicz ancestry lived in Vilnius, Vaukavysk, Ivacevicy and Lida in the thirties and the forties of the 20th cent. by all accounts.

Henryk and Franciszek Konstantynowicz fought near to Krzyvda and Helenovek (battle of Kock) in

The Konstantynowicz ancestry moved on to the new Polish west territory after

I can’t give many more information about this period after 1940 for the sake of secret data.

Many of them stayed at BELARUS’ (Mahileu by the river Dnjapro, Toloczki, Zabalac) and settled themselves in Russia (Krasnojarsk in the sixties of the 20th cent. and the Krasnojarsk area after 2nd world war, Archangelsk = Arkhangelsk: Yury Konstantynowicz now, Moscow: Aleksandr Konstantynowicz and Oleg Konstantynowicz now, Dmitrij Konstantynowicz in Togliatti near to Samara; my ancestry in Omsk after 1928: Viktoria born 1870/71 - daughter of Antoni Konstantynowicz, Orenburg: Vasilij Konstantynowicz; somebody exiled at Solowezki Islands in the White Sea after 1923) but we lost touch with them and settled themselves in CANADA, in Denmark (at the beginning of the 20th cent.; now Maria H. and Thorbjorn Konstantynowicz), USA (OHIO and Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20th cent.: Peter Konstantynowicz who was married to Mary G.; Olga I. Konstantynowicz who was born 1860 in Kiev - after 1880 in Paris - daughter of Alexander Konstantynowicz; in the thirties of the 20th cent.: Konstantynowicz Michael (= Michal), Konstantynowicz Jacob (Jakov = Jakub) and Casmir (Kazimierz), Konstantynowicz Boleslauf and Eugene (Eugeniusz) H. Konstantynowicz and Anthony, too; now in USA: MARY P. born c. 1934, Brandon Konstantynowicz, REGINA born c. 1925, EDWARD born c. 1924, Steven Konstantynowicz, DIANE S. born c. 1942, WALTER born c. 1968; K. Konstantynowicz born c. 1955; Konstantynowicz Aleksei - an unknown line - in "Military Review" and "Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press"; MARGARET, ROBERT and Leon Konstantynowicz born 1911, Andrew Konstantynowicz located in St. Petersburg - Florida; JOHN W., TED P. Konstantynowicz born c. 1921, Chief Operations Officer Tom Konstantynowicz in Philadelphia; FRANK; BECKY; Josephine Konstantynowicz of Youngstown; EDWARD M.; EDYTHE M.; D. Konstantynowicz and WENDY born c. 1969), England (Alice Konstantinowicz, chiropractor), Australia (details are lacking) and ARGENTINA (Argentine Republic).

I had been told about (details are lacking) Pyotr and Helena Konstantinowicz - unknown ancestry; A. V. Konstantinowicz and I.A. Konstantinowicz - experts of ionization energies - I rather think that unknown ancestry; T. Konstantinowicz in Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA; in Barnaul (that is near to Nowosibirsk = Nowonikolajewsk in the middle of the 20th cent.) where Basil Konstantinowicz - rather ancestry of the Konstantynowiczs who derived from present BUKOVINA - and his wife Olga.

I am looking for all information about my grandfather Marian or Jerzy Konstantynowicz and about his Konstantynowicz ancestry from the parish of Berazino (Berezina, Berezino or Berezyna); he belonged to one of the old noble families from the farthest eastern reaches of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Those lands were also the first to be taken by tsarist Russia as the result of the partitions of Poland.

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