Gedeon Rajecki (Dunin)

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Gedeon Rajecki (Dunin) h. Łabędź (born around 1589, died in July 1654) - soldier in the service of hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, later (1625) derpski's chamberlain, then (1631) Castellan of Paris, Castellan of Minsk ( 1634); at the beginning of 1649 he was appointed a Minsk voivode, and during the Sejm 1649/1650 he made a senatorial oath.

He came from a family derived from the Rajec estates near Radom, from a branch settled in the 16th century in the Vilna County district of Lithuania. His parents were Trakai Baltazar (Balcer) and Świętoslaw of Okuniów, he was their fourth son. As a captain of Chodkiewicz's army, he participated in the so-called Muscovite War in 1617-1618, later (at the beginning of 1619) with his banner he was stationed in Kokenhuza on Daugava, later (in 1620 or 1621) he was to participate in some "Wallachia campaign", after which - already in 1622 - he left military service.

In view of the threat posed by the Swedish invasion in the Wałkomierski poviat, the nobility there issued an order to gather the army (100 cavalry and 200 Cossacks) to defend the poviat. Having brought Krzysztof Radziwiłł, one hundred hussars took part in the capture of Nereta and Czados.

After this military episode, Gideon Rajecki's activity was already manifested mainly in public and political activities. He took part in the relativity council in Vilnius (beginning of January 1627), and on January 1 he participated in the signing of the truce with the Swedes on behalf of hetman Lev Sapieha. In the same year, he represented Wiłomir as a deputy at the Lithuanian Tribunal. In the following years he took part in convocations and deliberations of various bodies in Lithuania several times.

He was a Calvinist, patron of the church in Czados, from 1636 in the council of general curators of the congregations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; in December 1639, King Władysław IV appointed him - along with Krzysztof Radziwiłł - to the committee representing the Calvinist party in the settlement of matters related to the riots that took place in Vilnius. This commission ended its work - in view of the biased position of the commissioners representing Catholics - with a very unsatisfactory result for the Calvinist side (Radziwiłł and Rajecki drew up their own minutes from the files of the case, which were joined by documents rejected by Catholics.) In the face of failure that Rajecki did in this case, he left the political system for several years and took part in the Calvinist synod in 1642 and 1645.

In 1648 he took part in Vilnius in meetings of senators devoted to ensuring the security of Lithuania after the death of Władysław IV. A year later, he was appointed a Minsk voivode. Source

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