Plāteru dzimta Inflantijā 16.-17. gadsimtā

ENThis article has been produced with the support of the project VPPIZM-2018/1-0018 "Interaction between the individual, the society and the state in process of the history of Latvia: conflicting values and formation of shared values during historical turning points". The Plater family is one of the most prominent German-Baltic families in Inflanty. It included 8 senators, 3 voivodships, a court marshal and a Lithuanian podchancellor, as well as a castelan at the royal congress. However, in historiography, the information about the family in the early modern times is very modest and fragmentary. Therefore, the aim of this article is to provide an insight into the history of the Plater family in the 16th-17th centuries in the context of the development of Inflanty based on sources and historiography. Members of the Plater family came to Livonia in the 15th century in search of a better life, and thanks to active military action and marriage policy, they acquired large lands and became the most influential Inflant family. Jan Andrzej Plater became the first starasta of Dinaburg and held the position of the voivodship of Inflant. Representatives of the family also took part in the political life of PolishñLithuanian Commonwealth. Despite the fact that the members of the family accepted Catholicism, the Plater family was not fully affected by the process of polonization, the family retained elements of German culture. Key words: Plater, Inflanty, German nobility, genealogy, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.