Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski

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Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski

Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski (Polish Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski ; born November 2, 1667 in Paris , † December 19, 1737 in Żółkiew, today Schowkwa in Ukraine ) was a Polish nobleman , Crown Prince of Poland-Lithuania , and pretender to the throne of Poland -Lithuania. He was also a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Life

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Prince Jakob Sobieski was born in Paris in 1667 as the son of the hetman Johann III. Sobieski and Countess Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien . In 1683 he and his father, who had become King of Poland in 1674, took part in the battle against the Ottomans on Kahlenberg near Vienna .

In 1691 he married Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia von Pfalz-Neuburg , the daughter of Elector Wilhelm von der Pfalz . In the same year, his brother-in-law, Emperor Leopold I, pledged the town and rule of Oława to him in his capacity as King of Bohemia . Sobieski stayed several times in Ohlau, where he had the Catholic Rochus Chapel built in 1706.

After his father's death in 1696, eighteen candidates ran for the Polish throne. Family rivalries prevented Jacob from being elected, even though Austria supported him. His own mother, Marie Casimire, preferred her son-in-law, the Elector of Bavaria . Louis XIV of France promoted Prince Louis of Conti .

Friedrich August the Strong , Elector of Saxony , then became King of Poland as August II on September 1, 1697 after converting to Catholicism .

It was the first time that the son of a late king was not chosen to succeed him. Although he had not been given the reign of Ohlau, he called himself Duke of Ohlau after the unsuccessful application for the Polish throne .

Another attempt by Jacob to regain the Polish throne after August II was deposed during the Great Northern War was thwarted by August by capturing Jacob and his younger brother Constantine on February 27, 1704 and at the Pleißenburg until the Peace of Altranstädt in 1706 held in Leipzig and the Königstein Fortress .

Prince Jakob Sobieski died on December 19, 1737 in Żółkiew and was buried there. The Oława that had been pledged to him fell back to the Bohemian sovereign.

family

His marriage to Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia von Pfalz-Neuburg had the following children:

  • Maria Leopoldina (1693–1695)
  • Maria Casimira (1695–1723), nun
  • Marie Charlotte (1697–1740), married Charles Godefroid de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon (1706–1771)
  • Maria Clementina (1702–1735), married James Francis Edward Stuart , English pretender to the throne, son of King James II of England
  • Mary Magdalene (1704–1704)

Web links

Commons : Jakub Ludwik Sobieski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 376.
personal data
SURNAME Sobieski, Jakob Louis Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prince Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Crown Prince of Poland
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1737
Place of death Zhovkva , Ukraine