Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł
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| Noble Family | Radziwiłł | |
| Coat of Arms | Trąby odmiana Radziwill | |
| Parents | Jerzy Radziwłł Barbara Kola |
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| Consorts | Katarzyna Tomicka-Lwińska | |
| Children | with Katarzyna Tomicka-Lwińska Mikołaj Radziwiłł Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł |
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| Date of Birth | 1512 | |
| Place of Birth | Vilnius | |
| Date of Death | April 27, 1584 | |
| Place of Death | ? | |
Mikołaj Radziwiłł, nicknamed The Red (Polish Rudy, Lithuanian: Radvila Rudasis) also known as Mikołaj Radziwiłł The Sixth (1512-1584) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic), Palatine of Vilnius, Grand Chancellor and Grand Lithuanian Hetman (from 1576) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
Mikołaj Radziwiłł spent many years as a military commander. While not the most famous of Commonwealth hetmans, under king Stefan Batory he was fairly successful in defending the eastern boarders of the Commonwealth against the Muscovy.
His political career was marked by his alliance with his cousin Mikolaj 'Black' Radziwiłł, with whom he opposed the other notable Lithuanian families in the rivalry for the dominant status in the Great Duchy. This alliance marked the formation of a dynastic-like cooperation between Radziwiłłs and showed how family interests could affect magnates relations with Rzeczpospolita (the Commonwealth).
Mikołaj Radziwiłł became an advocate of Lithuanian sovereignty and thus a vocal opponent of political union with Poland, (Union of Lublin, 1569). Unlike the other magnates he refused to sign the Act, as harmful to the interests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
He was one of the most prominent converts and advocates of the Protestant faith in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and his line of the family became devoted members and defenders of the Lithuanian Reformed Church until its extinction.
Mikalojus Radvila • Mikołaj Radziwiłł • Albertas Goštautas • Jan Jurjewicz Hlebowicz • Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł • Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł • Eustachy Wołłowicz • Lew Sapieha • Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł • Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac • Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński • Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł • Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł • Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki • Jan Fryderyk Sapieha • Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski • Aleksander Michał Sapieha • Joachim Littawor Chreptowicz
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Konstanty Ostrogski | Semen Jurewicz | Stanislovas Kęsgaila | Stanisław Piotrowicz Kiszka | Konstanty Ostrogski | Jerzy Radziwiłł | Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł | Jeremi Chodkiewicz | Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł | Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł | Jan Karol Chodkiewicz | Lew Sapieha | Krzysztof Radziwiłł | Janusz Kiszka | Janusz Radziwiłł | Paweł Jan Sapieha | Michał Kazimierz Pac | Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki | Kazimierz Jan Sapieha | Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Younger | Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński | Ludwik Pociej | Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki | Michał "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł | Michał Józef Massalski | Michał Kazimierz Ogiński | Szymon Marcin Kossakowski |
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