Tadeusz Kosciuszko

The Kosciuszko family descended from Konstantin Fedorovich, a grand ducal courtier of Alexander Jagiellon and Sigismund I.

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Konstantin Fedorovich was diminutively called "Kostyushka," which years later became a family name. In 1509, Sigismund I the Old, as Grand Duke of Lithuania, granted Konstantin (by a privilege written in Old Belorussian) ownership of the Siechnowicze estate, which still included neighboring hamlets. Over time, the family became Polonized.