sentences:  Since 1542 he was also a voivode of Trakai.As one of the most notable and influential noblemen of his epoch, in 1542 he was also awarded with a royal pension of "600 times the number of 60 Prague groschen" in exchange for his town of Upytė, which was bought by Sigismund Augustus of Poland.On 17 May 1537 he married Barbara Radziwiłł, later the second wife of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Sigismund II Augustus.