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{{Short description|Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat and statesman}}
{{Infobox nobility
| name =Lew Sapieha
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| title = ''Great Hetman''<br/>''Grand Chancellor''
| spouse =[[Firlej family|Dorota Firlej]]<br/>Halaszka Radziwiłł
| issue = ''with [[Dorota Firlej]]''<br>Katarzyna Sapieha<br>Krzysztof Sapieha<br>[[Jan Stanisław Sapieha]]<br>
|predecessor=|successor=| full name =
| CoA =[[Lis coat of arms|Lis]]
|tenure=| noble family =[[House of Sapieha|Sapieha]]
| father =Iwan Sapieha
| mother =Bohdana Drucka Konopka
| birth_date =
| birth_place =near [[Vitebsk]], [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] (now Belarus)
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1633|7|7|1557|4|4|df=y}}
| death_place =[[Vilnius]], [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] (now Lithuania)
}}
'''Lew Sapieha''' ({{
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He was born in [[Astroŭna]] ({{langx|be|Астроўна}}), near [[Vitebsk]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jivebelarus.net/at_this_day/events_calendar262.html|title = Jivebelarus.net}}</ref> He was educated in [[Leipzig]] and worked in the royal chancellery of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania [[Stephen Báthory]] under the direction of [[Jan Zamoyski]].
▲He was born in [[Astroŭna]] ({{lang-be|Астроўна}}), near [[Vitebsk]].<ref>http://jivebelarus.net/at_this_day/events_calendar262.html</ref> He was educated in [[Leipzig]] and worked in the royal chancellery of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania [[Stefan Báthory]] under direction of [[Jan Zamoyski]]. Raised Eastern Orthodox, in his youth he converted to [[Calvinism]] and founded a number of Calvinist churches in his former estates. In the 1570s he turned to [[Unitarianism]]. Disillusioned by the squabbles within the Protestant camp, in 1586 he converted with his first wife to [[Roman Catholicism]] of which he became a zealous defender. After the [[Union of Brest]] he enforced conformity on the unwilling Eastern Orthodox.
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He supported a political union with [[Tsardom of Russia|Muscovy]] in 1584–1600 and led the [[diplomatic mission]] to Moscow in 1600 that proposed the union to [[tzar]] [[Boris Godunov]], who declined the proposal. He also participated in [[Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18)|wars with Muscovy]] under rule of [[Stephen Báthory]] and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania [[Sigismund III Vasa]]. He became an adviser of Sigismund III and supported his radical plans to take over the Muscovite throne and reclaim [[Smolensk]] by force.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leonas Sapiega: liūtas ar lapinas? |url=http://m.ldkistorija.lt/index.php/istoriniai-faktai/leonas-sapiega-liutas-ar-lapinas/1249 |website=ldkistorija.lt |access-date=11 November 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407191506/http://m.ldkistorija.lt/index.php/istoriniai-faktai/leonas-sapiega-liutas-ar-lapinas/1249 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He participated in establishing the [[Lithuanian Tribunal]] in 1578.<ref name="saltiniai">{{cite web |title=Leonas Sapiega |url=http://www.šaltiniai.info/index/details/873 |website=šaltiniai.info |access-date=11 July 2019 |language=lt}}</ref>▼
As Chancellor he was the main editor and publisher of the last version of the [[Statutes of Lithuania|Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].<ref name="saltiniai"></ref> He laid grounds for the establishment of the Law Faculty in the [[University of Vilnius]], which was created in 1641. He was co-initiator and a participant in the military expedition to Moscow in 1618 by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania [[Władysław IV Vasa|Władysław IV]].▼
▲He supported a political union with [[Muscovy]] in 1584–1600 and led the [[diplomatic mission]] to Moscow in 1600 that proposed the union to [[tzar]] [[Boris Godunov]], who declined the proposal. He also participated in [[Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18)|wars with Muscovy]] under rule of [[Stephen Báthory]] and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania [[Sigismund III Vasa]]. He became an adviser of Sigismund III and supported his radical plans to take over the Muscovite throne.
As [[Sejm Marshal]], he led the ordinary [[Sejm]] in [[Warsaw]] from
Sapieha died on 1633 and was interred in the cellars of the [[Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Vilnius]], which he himself
▲As Chancellor he was the main editor and publisher of the last version of the [[Statutes of Lithuania|Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].<ref name="saltiniai"></ref> He laid grounds for the establishment of the Law Faculty in the [[University of Vilnius]], which was created in 1641.
== Gallery ==▼
▲As [[Sejm Marshal]] he led the ordinary [[Sejm]] in [[Warsaw]] from October 4 to November 25, 1582. He was a benefactor of many catholic churches in the Grand Duchy. He established the long-term power and wealth of the [[House of Sapieha|Sapieha family]].
▲Sapieha died on 1633 and was interred in the cellars of the [[Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Vilnius]], which he himself has commissioned.<ref name="bradt">Howard Jarvis, Neil Taylor (2006) ''Vilnius with Kaunas'', Bradt Travel Guides, pp. 112–113</ref> His tomb remains there to the present day and is still the largest piece of art of its kind in the territory of Lithuania.
▲==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Lew Sapieha (1557-1633).jpg|Portrait depicting Sapieha by an unknown painter
File:Church of St. Michael
File:ChurchStMichaelVilnius7.jpg|Tomb of Lew Sapieha inside the church
File:Tombstone for Leonas Sapiega01(js).jpg|Lew Sapieha is buried with his two wives
File:Leonas-Sapiega-letter-1626.jpg|A letter signed by Sapieha from 1626
File:1995. Stamp of Belarus 0116.jpg|Belarusian stamp from 1995
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[[Category:Grand chancellors of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]]
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