[2] In the 16th–17th centuries, the village was one of the core properties of the Giedroyć family who funded the monastery for the Canons Regular of Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs and the Church of St. Lawrence.

The monastery honored Michał Giedroyć (died in 1485) who was possibly born in the village and was officially beatified in 2018.

A bronze horseshoe-shaped fibula with red enamel was found during archaeological excavations at the center of the town in 1999.

In 1896, Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga reported that the village had a Russian primary school.

Historians attempted to identify it with the fortified Baltadvaris Castle located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of Videniškiai.

Surviving descriptions mention the main residential building with a splendid "golden" hall and a Renaissance garden.

Today, walls of the main castle barn and eastern gates, together with foundations and cellars, have survived.

[6] His sons Marcin [lt], Voivode of Mstsislaw, and Merkelis, Bishop of Samogitia, funded a new brick Church of St. Lawrence.

Marcin also funded a monastery for the Canons Regular of Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs, an Augustinian order, which was completed in 1620.

[15] Michał Giedroyć (died 1485) was a member of the Canons Regular of Penitence and was venerated for his piousness (he was officially beatified only in 2018).

A chapel with a crypt was added in 1631 to the monastery church to act as a mausoleum for the Giedroyć family.

[15] The first monastery was a small wooden structure that could house twelve monks, but it became a center of the Canons Regular of Penitence in Lithuania.

[15] That year he published a Lithuanian-language collection of sermons Broma atwerta ing wiecznasti... (The Gate Open to Eternity) which became very popular and was reprinted at least sixteen more times.

[15] In 1783, Józef Kossakowski, Bishop of Livonia, received a papal bull from Pope Pius VI and seized the monastery and its land.

Bishop of Vilnius Ignacy Jakub Massalski and the Canons Regular of Penitence sued and recovered the monastery and received cash compensation, but lost the land.

Extensive restoration works started in 1994 with financial support by, among others, Michal Giedroyc, a descendant of the Giedroyć family.

[5][19] After the prolonged restoration, a museum was opened in the former monastery on 4 May 2015 (the 530th death anniversary of Michał Giedroyć).