The voivodeship was established based on the
Łuck Eldership (starostvo) in 1566 with the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Following the 1569
union of Lublin, it was ceded to the Crown of Poland as part of the Lesser Poland (Malopolska) Province. The capital of the voivodeship was in Łuck (presentday Lutsk), and it had three senators in the Senate of the Commonwealth. These were the Bishop of Luck, the
Voivode of Volhynia and the
Castellan of Volhynia. Volhynian Voivodeship was divided into three counties: Luck,
Wlodzimierz and
Krzemieniec. Local
starostas resided in the three capitals of the counties, while
sejmiks took place at Luck. The voivodeship had two deputies in the Polish
Sejm, and one deputy in the Lesser Poland Tribunal in
Lublin.
Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book
Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of Volhynian Voivodeship: ==Administration==