Jan Piotr Sapieha

Jan Piotr Sapieha
Coat of arms	Lis
Consort	Zofia Weiher
Issue
Hanna Chodkiewiczówna Paweł Jan Sapieha
Szlachta	Sapieha
Father	Paweł Sapieha
Mother	Anna Chodkiewiczówna
Born	1569 Bykhov/Mogilev
Died	October 15, 1611(1611-10-15) Moscow Kremlin

Jan Piotr Sapieha (1569–1611) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic). Starosta uświacki, pułkownik królewski, son of Paweł Sapieha (1523–1580) and Anna Chodkiewiczowna (1540–1595), married to Zofia Weiher, father of Paweł Jan Sapieha. Participant of the Polish-Swedish War - brought a private chorągiew of 100 Cossacks, and commanded he right wing (400 hussars, 700 Cossack cavalry) of Polish-Lithuanian army during the famous Battle of Kircholm in 1605. Participant of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618), where he commanded the failed siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1608 and later fought anti-Polish Muscovite forces near Moscow (the so called First Volunteer Army, led by Prokopy Lyapunov). Died on October 15 during the siege of Moscow Kremlin, buried at Leipalingis.

Jan Piotr Sapieha is one of the personas on the famous painting by Jan Matejko: the sermons of Piotr Skarga.

Ancestors

16. Semen Sopiha

8. Bohdan Sapieha (+ aft.1511)

17. Nastazja

4. Iwan Sapieha (+1546)

9. Pss Teodora Drucka Babiczówna

2. Count Paweł Sapieha

20. Pr Aleksander Sanguszkowicz

10. Pr Andrzej Sanguszko

5. Pss Hanna Sanguszkówna (+1561)

11. Bohdana Odyncewiczówna

1. Prince Jan Piotr Sapieha

24. Iwan Chodkiewicz (1420-1484)

12. Aleksander Chodkiewicz (1457-1549)

25. Pss Jawnuta Bielska

6. Hrehory Chodkiewicz (+1572)

13. Pss Wasylissa Jaroslawowiczówna

3. Hanna Chodkiewiczówna

28. Michal Zbaraski, Pr of Vishnevtsy

14. Pr Iwan Wisniowiecki

29. Pss ? Polubinska

7. Katarzyna Wisniowiecka (+ bef.1580)

30. Semen Olizarowicz

15. Nastazja Olizarowiczowna (+ca 1536)