![](/img/virseliai/0235-716X.jpg) ISSN 0235-716X
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2005 m. Nr. 2
![](/img/pdf_icon.jpg) XVI a. Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės didikių patronatas
Raimonda RAGAUSKIENĖ
The article deals with the GDL noblewomen’s participation in the patron–client network. The women that belonged to the ruling class could participate not only in families’ matters and private property, but also in state’s life and even influence political events. Noblewomen exercised all functions in the clientage network in Lithuania. Their matronage was defined by their families’ high position in the society, influence in the king’s court, their real estate and also their relationship with their husbands. The matronesses had the greatest influence in distributing their domestic clientage in their estates. Their economically based domestic clientage used to become their political or religious clientage. This process would start when the noblewomen’s intercessions to their husbands ended in good results and the landowners came under the patronage of the noblemen. A very similar scheme was also valid for the political rise of their clientage beyond their estate: part of servants, influential noblemen, and lower rank officials of the GDL. Noble women could efficiently act within their own class. By interceding for relatives, statesmen of the GDL, working in the matrimonial policy, noblewomen made a significant contribution into strengthening families and their political role.
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