|Detailed||Send e-mail reference| The following materials were
used for this purpose: Certificates applying the history of
South and West Russia; Certificates applying the history of West
Russia; materials of the National historical archives of
Belarus; monographs by V.V. Kalnin (which deal with Mir castle)
and by A.N. Narbut (about the history of Belarussian families).
Studies by K. Nesetsky and S. Vysloukhy are also of scientific
interest. Some information was specified and new facts were
found in the course of our work. The previous scheme by J.Y.
Yodkovsky was almost completely preserved and completed.
According to J.Y. Yodkovsky, Ilyinichs were a magnate family
(coat of arms “Korchak”) well known in the Great Lithuanian
Principality in the 15th-16th centuries. Ivan is considered to
be the founder of the family. He and his descendants were called
Ilyinichs by the name of their forefather Ilya who was freed by
Duke Vitovt from providing carts for the government what was
confirmed in a charter issued by kin