Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (, , ), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.

History

thumb|left|[[Trakai, capital of the voivodeship, in the 17th century]]

Trakai Voivodeship together with Vilnius Voivodeship was established by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great in 1413 according to the Union of Horodło. Voivodes were the ex officio members of the Lithuanian Council of Lords. Voivodes had their residence in Trakai city, near Galvė Lake, north of the Trakai Peninsula Castle.

List of voivodes

  • Jonas Goštautas (1440)
  • Iwaszko Moniwidowicz (1443–1458)
  • Radvila Astikas (1466–1477)
  • Martynas Goštautas (1480–1483)
  • Jan Zabrzeziński (1498–1505)
  • Olbracht Gasztołd (Albrecht Goštautas) (1519–1522)
  • Konstanty Ostrogski (1522–1530)
  • Stanisław Gasztołd (Stanislovas Goštautas) (1542)
  • Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1590–1604)
  • Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1626–1640)
  • Piotr Pac (X 1640–VII 1642)
  • Mikołaj Abramowicz (1647–1651?)
  • Marcjan Ogiński (since 1670)
  • Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński (1770–1783)
  • Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (since 1788)

References