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 .

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 .

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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