Michał Wiśniowiecki or Mykhailo Vyshnevetsky (1529–1584) was a Ruthenian noble (szlachcic) of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a prince at Wiśniowiec, magnate, Senior of Registered Cossacks, Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks, castellan of Bracław and Kijów (now Kyiv),Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, t. V. Warszawa: 1880-1902, s. 36. starost of Czerkasy, Kaniów, Lubeka and Łojów. Great-grandfather of the future King of Poland, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki.

Wisnowiecki was born before the Union of Lublin in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Marriage and issue Michał married Halszka Zenowiczówna h. Deszpot and had five children

Aleksander Wiśniowiecki (ca. 1560–1594), starost of Czerkasy, Kaniów, Korsuń Szewczenkowski, Lubeka and Łojów, married Helena Jełowiecka h. Jełowiecki Michał Wiśniowiecki (died 1616), married Regina Mohyła, father of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, grandfather of King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki Jerzy Wiśniowiecki (died 1618), married Teodora Czaplica h. Kierdeja Maryna Wiśniowiecka, married Teodor ks. Drucki-Horski h. Druck Zofia Wiśniowiecka (1595 – died after 1612), married Jerzy Ostafi Tyszkiewicz h. Leliwa

See also List of szlachta

Bibliography Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski, Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, t. V, Warszawa, 1880–1902, s. 36.

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