Stanislovas Čiupurna
Stanislovas Čiupurna (Polish: Stanisław Czupurna; died 1411) was a Lithuanian noble who served as Court Marshal from 1395 to 1407 and Grand Marshal from 1407 to 1411. An ally of Grand Duke Vytautas, he was a key diplomat in the dispute over Samogitia with the Teutonic Knights. Very little is known about his life or origins.
In 1398 and again in 1410, he used a coat of arms not borrowed from Polish heraldry; the arms record his name with a patronymic that cannot be deciphered. He had a brother, Vigaila, who was starosta of Ukmergė, but it is unknown whether Čiupurna married or had children.
Die Littauischen Wegeberichte mention Czapornendorff between Rudamina and Šalčininkai, a location Theodor Hirsch identified with Tabariškės on the Merkys River. Čiupurna owned an estate in Šalčininkai and funded a Catholic church there in 1410, one of the earliest known documents by a Lithuanian noble granting support to a church. He also funded a chapel in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vilnius. He had a house within the Vilnius Castle Complex; in 1413 Benedict Makrai, a mediator for Sigismund of Luxembourg, issued a document from that house.
Čiupurna is first mentioned in 1395 as a witness to Vytautas’s donation to Vilnius Cathedral, at which time he was already Court Marshal. In March 1398 in Hrodna, he helped negotiate and sign the preliminary Treaty of Salynas with the Teutonic Knights. During the Samogitia conflict, he carried out diplomatic missions to the Teutonic Knights in 1400, 1401, 1405 and 1407. The relationship with the Knights appears friendly: in 1403 the Komtur of Balga sent him spurs as a sign of knighthood, and in 1407 the Teutonic Grand Master inquired after Čiupurna’s health and paid for his medical treatment in Prussia. The last mention of Čiupurna is January 23, 1411, when he, Vytautas and Jogaila signed a document allowing the envoys of the Grand Master to travel freely.
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