Lewinski family

Under Polish rule, it took the name of its long-standing possession Lewyn (today known as Lewino), for which the first Polish King Sigismund I had confirmed a hereditary noble possession to Jacob Royk in 1526: "The privilege was given to the noble [...] heirs of James of the town of Lewyn in the land of Pomerania and the district of Mirochov" – Crown register No.

42 p. 125 from July 28, 1526, "The privilege of the nobles over the goods of Lewyn".In the 16th and 17th centuries, the family bore the name von Royk Lewinski.

The last of this branch of the family, born in Dargelow in 1747, left Kashubia and entered Prussian service.

[1] In the 1970s, a City University of New York political science professor, Anne Armstrong, who was known as the Baroness von Royk-Lewinski, ran in the Republican primary in Bergen County, New Jersey.

[2] The family's coat of arms are red with a silver lion holding a sword in its forepaws.