Anna Leszczyńska

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Anna Leszczyńska; Painting by Johan Starbus

Anna Leszczyńska ( listen ? / I ) (born May 25, 1699 in Poland ; † June 20, 1717 in Zweibrücken ) was a princess from the Polish noble family of Leszczyńskis . Audio file / audio sample

Anna was the older daughter of the Polish-Lithuanian king and later Duke of Lorraine Stanislaus I. Leszczyński and his wife, Countess Katharina Opalińska , daughter of the magnate Jan Karol Opaliński and his wife Zofia Czarnkowska. Her younger sister Maria Leszczyńska married the French King Louis XV in 1725 .

Anna Leszczyńska, who was characterized as “beautiful and talented” by one of her father's biographers, spent her childhood in Rydzyna Castle in Greater Poland until 1707 and then in exile . She died unexpectedly on June 20, 1717 in Zweibrücken and was buried the next day in the Gräfinthal monastery church, a family favorite. Her father donated an Anne altar above the grave and commissioned an anniversarium (mass foundation) in 1749 . Archaeological investigations in 2006 found evidence of the burial of a young woman of high social standing in the ruins of the Gräfinthal monastery church.

literature

  • Wojciech Krzyżanowski: Stanislaus Leszczynski; a Polish ruler on German soil , Stuttgart, 1977, ISBN 3771102782 ; Excerpt from one of several passages about Anna Leszczyńska
  • Angelika Schneider: Anna Leszczynska - Polish princess in exile in Zweibrücken and in the Saar region. In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, vol. 56/57 2008/2009 pp. 131-139, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-938381-26-7
  • Michael Ranft: life of the benevolent philosopher: or full life story of the world famous Polish King Stanislai Lesczinski, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, etc., father-in-law of King Louis XV. in France , Leipzig 1767, p. 254 with Anna's date of birth in the Google book search

Web links

Commons : Anna Leszczyńska (1699-1717)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The place of birth is unknown. Angelika Schneider (2010) excludes Trebnitz and considers Rydzyna Castle in Greater Poland to be possible
  2. ↑ Documentation on the place of death and the transfer to Gräfinthal
  3. ↑ Documentation on the place of death
  4. ↑ Gabriele Oberhauser: Pilgrimage sites in Saarland , Saarbrücker Druckerei and Verlag, 1992, page 136, ISBN 3-925036-67-9
personal data
SURNAME Leszczyńska, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish princess
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1717
Place of death Zweibrücken