Poniatowski

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Poniatowski is the family name of a Polish aristocratic family of Italian descent, which first appeared in documents in the Lublin area in 1450 and had owned the indigenous community in the Kingdom of Poland since March 4, 1569 and is one of the Polish aristocratic families . The feminine form of the name is Poniatowska . The name Poniatowski is derived from their headquarters in Poniatowa near Lublin in Mazovia.

history

Montechiarugolo , Torelli Castle

The parts of the noble Poniatowski family that still exist today are descended from the Torelli family from Lombardy , whose progenitor Torello appears as a vassal of the archbishops of Ravenna in the first half of the 12th century . From 1406 they were Counts of Monte Chiarugulo (today Montechiarugolo , Province of Parma ), from 1428 Marchese . On March 11, 1569, they were granted the Polish indigenous status. On November 29, 1629, Giuseppe Salinguerra dei Torelli from the house of the Counts of Monte Chiarugulo accepted the name and coat of arms of the Polish Poniatowski on the occasion of his marriage to Sophia Poniatowska, daughter and heiress of Albert Poniatowski.

The most famous representative of this line was Stanislaus II August Poniatowski (1732–1798), last king of Poland since 1764 (reign 1764–1795). He raised his three brothers Kasimir, Crown Chamberlain, (* 1721; † 1780), Andreas and Michael to the Polish prince status in 1764, Andreas also became a Bohemian prince (dated Vienna 10 December 1765) and was dated the Bohemian incolat in the lordship Vienna December 29, 1765. With Kasimir's son Stanislaus III. (died February 12, 1833 in Florence) the legitimate descendants of the royal house have died out, but other branches are still in bloom.

Coat of arms of the Princes Poniatowski

Under a prince's crown, from which emerges a red, hermelin-lined coat of arms, tucked on both sides by golden tassel cords, a shield divided into four with a heart shield, in it a growing golden bull in blue: 1 and 4 in silver a green snake curled around a black tree pole, which is a naked, flesh-colored child, of which only the upper body with head and arms outstretched are visible, devours. 2 and 3 in gold a gold-armed and tongued and also crowned red lion.

Overview of the master sequence

  • Johann Ritter von Poniatow-Poniatowski (from Szreniawa coat of arms), married to Sophia Grocholska (from Polish nobility).
  • Franz, * before 1650, † before 1720, married to Helena Dorothea Neiwarowska (from Polish nobility).
  • Stanislaus (I.) Count Poniatowski, voivode of Mazovia , Grand Jägermeister in Lithuania , castellan of Krakow and general of the guard troops, * Dereczan in Lithuania 1677, † August 3, 1762, married to Konstanze Princess Czartoryska , sister of Prince Friedrich Michael Csartoryski , Grand Chancellor of Lithuania (1696–1775).
  • Andreas Fürst Poniatowski (dated 1764 and 1765), Starost von Polangen , Imperial Court Marshal and Feldzeugmeister , commander of the MMTO in Vienna, * Wolczan 1735, † Vienna March 3, 1783, 1760 married to Maria Theresa Countess Kinsky von Wichnitz and Tettau (1740 –1806), as a widow tenant of the former Doksany monastery in Bohemia. The two children of this marriage: 1. Maria Theresa married Count Vincenz von Tyszkiewicz (from the Lehwa coat of arms), and 2. Joseph Anton Prince Poniatowski, first an Austrian officer, then Minister of War in the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and finally Marshal of France , * Warsaw March 7th 1763, drowned on October 19, 1813 in the Elster near Leipzig and was buried in the Wawel in Krakow . The Ponityki-Poniatowski family came from his connection with Sophie Countess Potocka .

Well-known namesake

Stanislaus II August Poniatowski (1732–1798), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

literature

Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Supplementary volume. Published by the board of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Research Center for the Bohemian Countries, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1990, ISBN 3 486 54051 3 , there: Poniatowski family (from Ciolek coat of arms), pages 111 and 112

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of History. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-938478-32-2 , p. 750
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels, Volume Fü IV, page 479, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1956
  3. ↑ Bohemian Landtafel hall books, tape CCXVI page 418-430

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