Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski

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Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski.

Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski (born April 26, 1696 , † August 13, 1775 in Warsaw ) was Grand Chancellor of Lithuania . He belonged to the old aristocratic family Czartoryski , who had worked with Russia at the time of the First Partition of Poland .

When the draft constitution under August III. failed, he and his brother August, with the support of Catherine II, achieved the elevation of their former favorite and his nephew Stanisław Poniatowski to the rank of Polish king.

One of his grandchildren was Isabella Fortunata von Flemming (Izabela Czartoryska).