Wenden Voivodeship

 

Województwo wendeńskie Wenden Voivodeship Voivodeship of Livonia¹ 1598–1621 →   → Coat of arms Wenden Voivodeship in the Duchy of Livonia. Capital Wenden History  - Established 1598  - Polish–Swedish War 1621 Area 30,000 km2 (11,583 sq mi) ¹ The Duchy of Livonia was a vassal to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Union of Lublin in 1569, and after that a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Wenden Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo wendeńskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 until the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. The remainder of Polish Livonia was named the Inflanty Voivodeship afterwards until First Partition of Poland in 1772.

Voivodes of Wenden

The seat of the voivode was Wenden (Cēsis).

• 1598-1602 Jürgen von Farensbach
• 1620-1622 Teodor Denhoff
• 1627-1641 Joachim Tarnowski
• 1641-1643 Tomasz Sapieha
• 1643-1648 Gerard Denhoff
• (died 1659) Nikolaus Korff