Franciszek Salezy Potocki
Franciszek Salezy Potocki (* 1700 in Krystynopol ; † October 22, 1772 ibid) was a member of the Polish magnate family Potocki and between 1755 and 1772 voivode of the Kiev voivodeship .
family
Franciszek Salezy Potocki was the grandson of the Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown Feliks Kazimierz Potocki and son of Józef Felicjan Potocki . His son was the Polish magnate and politician Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki (1752-1805). His daughter Marianna Klementyna Potocka was married to the civil servant and later theater writer Alois Friedrich von Brühl in the Polish service .
Life
On August 3, 1750, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle in Warsaw . On May 22, 1755 he became voivode of the Volyn Voivodeship and on December 19, 1756 he received the Kiev Voivodeship with its headquarters in Zhytomyr , as Kiev itself had been Russian since 1667 .
As one of the richest men in Poland, Potocki owned extensive latifundia , several hundred villages and 70 towns, including Uman and Tultschyn .
During his reign, the Hajdamaks' Koliivshchyna uprising took place in 1768 , led by Maksym Salisnjak and Ivan Gonta , in which more than ten cities and 130 villages in his voivodeship were destroyed and which culminated in the conquest and massacre of Uman .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franciszek Salezy Potocki on ipsb.nina.gov.pl ; accessed on April 26, 2016 (Polish)
- ↑ Potocki, Franciszek Salezy (1700-1772) on wilanow-palac.pl; Source: Polish Biographical Dictionary; accessed on April 26, 2016 (Polish)
- ↑ Brief description of Franciszek Salezy Potocki on portalwiedzy.onet.pl; accessed on April 26, 2016 (Polish)
- ↑ History of the latest world events in large measure: which includes the history of the years 1767 to 1770 Volume 3 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016
- ↑ entry HAIDAMACKS in the Jewish Encyclopedia , accessed on April 26, 2016
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SURNAME | Potocki, Franciszek Salezy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish magnate and voivod of the Kiev Voivodeship |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1700 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Krystynopoly |
DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1772 |
Place of death | Krystynopoly |