Princess Maria Klementyna Sanguszko (30 March 1830 – 17 October 1903) was a Polish noblewoman, heiress, and the wife of politician Alfred Józef Potocki.
Princess Maria Klementyna Sanguszko | |
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| Coat of arms | Pogoń Litewska |
| Born | 30 March 1830 Slavuta, Russian Empire |
| Died | 17 October 1903 (aged 73) Lemberg, Austria-Hungary |
| Family | Sanguszko |
| Spouse(s) | Count Alfred Józef Potocki |
| Issue | Count Roman Potocki Countess Julia Potocka Countess Klementyna Potocka Count Józef Mikołaj Potocki |
| Father | Prince Roman Sanguszko |
| Mother | Countess Natalia Potocka |
Biography
editMaria was the only child of Roman Sanguszko and his wife Natalia Potocka, Polish aristocrats and members of some of the wealthiest and most notable families of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[citation needed] Her mother died soon after giving birth to her and her father was absent during her childhood as he was imprisoned from June 1831 until 1838 due to his participation in the November Uprising against Russia, and travelled extensively afterwards.[citation needed] In order to prevent the confiscation of his ancestral lands and property during his imprisonment, Maria was given nearly everything.[citation needed]
She was raised by her grandparents Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko and Klementyna Czartoryska,[citation needed] presumably at the Sanguszko family's Palace in Slavuta where they resided.
On 18 March 1851 she married Alfred Józef Potocki, her cousin and a man thirteen years her senior.[citation needed] Despite this, their marriage seemed to be a happy one and Maria flourished in her new position as a governor's wife. She was a naturally meticulous and organised person which made her duties of setting up events like balls and banquets all the easier for her.[citation needed]
Maria and her husband had four children: Count Roman Potocki born in 1851, Countess Julia Potocka born in 1854, Countess Klementyna Potocka born in 1856, and Count Józef Potocki born in 1862.[1]
In the 1880s, her husband finally began construction on a new palace in Lviv to replace one that had been knocked down in the 1860s.[citation needed] Alfred would not live to see it finished, however, as he died in 1889.[citation needed] The Potocki Palace, Lviv was completed by Maria and their son Roman.[citation needed] She then transferred the Potocki family's palace in Antoniny, Ukraine to her younger son Jósef.[citation needed]
Death
editIn her later years, she split her time between the Antoniny Palace in the summer and the palace in Lviv in the winter.[citation needed]
She died in Lviv at the age of seventy-three.
Awards
edit- Lady of the Star-Shaped Cross Order (pl:Krzyż gwiaździsty)[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Maria Klementyna Sanguszko (Potocka) b. 1830 d. 1903 - Rodovid PL". pl.rodovid.org. Retrieved 6 October 2021.