Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz
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Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1570-1642) was a great Lithuanian writer (1610+). He held numerous political offices, including voivode of Mścisław (1621-1626), voivode of Trock (1626-1640) and voivode of Vilna (1640-1642), as well as starost Brasławski, Jurborski, and Nowodworski in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The son of Teodor Tyszkiewicz and Katarzyna Lacka, he was of the Eastern Catholic faith,[1] and studied abroad at Padua.
Around 1595 he married Barbara Naruszewicz (1580-1627), the daughter of Stanisław Naruszewicz. He had one daughter: Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz.[2] After his first wife died, in 1630 he married Zofia Zamiechowska (?-1635).
In 1619 he donated some of his possessions in Hrodno to the nuns of Order of Saint Benedict.[3]
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