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Konstancja Ligęza
Konstancja may refer to: * Konstancja Benisławska (1747–1806), Polish poet and writer of religious hymns * Konstancja Czartoryska (1700–1759) (1696–1759), Polish szlachta, known as the mother of king Stanisław August Poniatowski *Konstancja Gładkowska (1810–1889), Polish soprano * Konstancja Kochaniec (born 1976), Polish classical and film music composer * Anna Katarzyna Konstancja (1619–1651), Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Re ... and his second wife Constance of Austria * Konstancja Lubomirska (1618–1646), Polish noble lady * Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska (1761–1840), Polish noblewoman artist * Konstancja Poniatowska (1759–1830), Polish noblewoman, niece of king Stanisław August Poniatowski * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Benisławska
Konstancja Benisławska (1747–1806) was a Polish poet and writer of religious hymns. References 1747 births 1806 deaths Polish women songwriters Christian hymnwriters Women hymnwriters Polish women poets 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian poets 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian women writers {{songwriter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Czartoryska (1700–1759)
300px, Stanisław and Konstancja Poniatowski Princess Konstancja Czartoryska (c. 1696 or 29 January 1700 – 27 October 1759) was a Polish-Lithuanian noblewoman and the mother of King Stanisław II August of Poland. She played a political role as a driving force within the Familia (political party). Life She was the daughter of magnate Prince Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife, Izabela Elżbieta Morsztyn. She was given a fashionable French-influenced education. She married Stanisław Poniatowski on 14 September 1720. The marriage was arranged by the assistance of Jakub Henryk Flemming as an alliance between the Poniatowski and Czartoryski family. After marriage, she frequently attended the royal court. Konstancja Czartoryska came to acquire a great influence within the family and was described as a driving force behind the political career of her spouse and her brothers. Through the connections she made at court, she could benefit the career of her brothers. She reportedl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szlachta
The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the nobility, noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social class, and they dominated those states by exercising szlachta's privileges, political rights and power. Szlachta as a class differed significantly from the Feudalism, feudal nobility of Western Europe. The estate was officially abolished in 1921 by the March Constitution (Poland), March Constitution."Szlachta. Szlachta w Polsce" ''Encyklopedia PWN'' The origins of the ''szlachta'' are obscure and the subject of several theories. The ''szlachta'' secured Golden Liberty, substantial and increasing political power and rights throughout its history, begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Gładkowska
Konstancja Gładkowska (1810–1889) was a Polish soprano. Frédéric Chopin at age 19, while studying at the Warsaw School of Music (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw), fell in love with Gładkowska. She admired many early works by Chopin, who in 1830 left Poland, eventually settling in Paris. Life Konstancja was born on 2 June 1810 in Warsaw (other dates given for her birth are June 4 and June 10). Her godmother was an illegitimate daughter of Poland's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski. Konstancja studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1829, during a university soloist concert, she met Chopin, for whom she became an inspiration to his music composing. In the autumn of 1830, when Chopin left Poland, she sang at his farewell. In 1832 Konstancja married Aleksander Józef Grabowski and lived on her husband's estate in Raducz, near Rawa Mazowiecka. The couple had five children. In 1845 Konstancja lost her eyesight and, despite attempts to treat the conditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Kochaniec
Konstancja Kochaniec (born 27 May 1976) is a Polish classical and film music composer. She has pursued independent creative activities, such as film music, television, theater music, solo music, chamber music, electronic music, as well as in the field of synthesis of the arts (including music concert painting of Mary A. Orzechowska Club Literary and Music in Wrocław, Poland). Education * The National School of Music in Wrocław, Poland; * 1991–97 Richard Bukowski School of Music in Wrocław, piano class of Andrzej Janusz; * 1997–2003 Department of Music Theory, Composition, and Conducting, at the Academy of Music in Wrocław, Poland; * 2003–2006 Student of Wlodzimierz Kotonski in Warsaw, Poland; * 2006 – professional degree in composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice, under supervision of prof. Wieslaw Cienciala; * 2009 – Master of Arts degree in composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice, under supervision of prof. Wieslaw Cienciala; * Participated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Katarzyna Konstancja
Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (; 7 August 1619 – 8 October 1651) was a Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa and his second wife, Constance of Austria. Life After the successive deaths of her mother (1631) and father (1632), and in order to secure her upkeeping according to her rank, in 1632 the parliament bestowed her with the counties of Brodnickie, Gołubskie and Tucholskie, which previously had belonged to her mother; however, she only came into possession of them when she came of age in 1638.S. Ochmann-Staniszewska: Dynastia Wazów w Polsce (''The Vasa dynasty in Poland''), PWN, Warsaw 2007, pp. 165-167. Since 1637, a marriage was suggested between Anne Catherine Constance and Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, heir of Tyrol and nephew of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. Despite arrangements in 1639 and 1642, the marriage never actually took place, because of the age of Ferdinand Charles and because of disagreement about the amount of dowry. Frederi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigismund III Vasa
Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Religiously zealous, he imposed Catholicism across the vast realm, and his crusades against neighbouring states marked Poland's largest territorial expansion. As an enlightened despot, he presided over an era of prosperity and achievement, further distinguished by the transfer of the country's capital from Kraków to Warsaw. Sigismund was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland. Elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, he sought to unify Poland and Sweden under one Catholic kingdom, and when he succeeded his deceased father in 1592 the Polish–Swedish union was created. Opposition in Protestant Sweden caused a war against Sigismund headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Lubomirska
Princess Konstancja Lubomirska (ca. 1618–1646) was a Polish noble lady. Lubomirska married Kazimierz Franciszek Czarnkowski on 1 February 1637 in Kraków. She was the mother of Adam Uriel Czarnkowski, grandmother of Zofia Anna Czarnkowska, great-grandmother of Katarzyna Opalinska and the great-great-grandmother of Maria Leszczyńska Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, .... She died in 1646. References 1610s births 1646 deaths People from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Konstancja {{Poland-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska
Princess Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska (1761–1840) was a Polish noblewoman and artist. She was an amateur artist and some of her drawings are preserved. She married Seweryn Rzewuski Seweryn Rzewuski (; 13 March 1743 in Podhorce – 11 December 1811 in Vienna) was a Polish nobleman, writer, poet, general of the Royal Army, Field Hetman of the Crown, Voivode of Podolian Voivodeship and one of the leaders of the Targowi ... in 1782. References Further reading * Marek Jerzy Minakowski, Genealogia Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (Genealogy of the Descendants of the Great Sejm)Sejm-Wielki 1761 births 1840 deaths Konstancja Malgorzata Lubomirska Artists from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth {{Poland-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Poniatowska
Princess Konstancja Poniatowska (1759–1830) was a Polish noblewoman from the House of Poniatowski. She was also the niece of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. Konstancja Poniatowska was born on March 2, 1759 in Warsaw, Poland. She was the only daughter of Kazimierz Poniatowski and his wife; Apolonia Ustrzycka. Konstancja had an elder brother, Stanisław Poniatowski (1754–1833). Konstancja later married Ludwik Skumin Tyszkiewicz on April 4, 1775. Konstancja was a close friend of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. On March 26, 1779. Konstancja gave birth to Anna Tyszkiewicz Anna Tyszkiewicz (1779–1867) was a Polish noblewoman and diarist. Anna was the daughter of Ludwik Tyszkiewicz and Konstancja Poniatowska, and married Aleksander Stanisław Potocki on 15 May 1805 in Wilno Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of .... She was the only child of the couple. Ancestry References 1759 births 1830 deaths Konstancja P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstancja Potocka
Countess Konstancja Potocka (1781 – December 25, 1852) was a Polish szlachcianka, noblewoman, translator and illustrator. She was the daughter of Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki. She married Jan Potocki in 1799, and Edward Raczyński (1786–1845), Edward Raczyński in 1817. During her second marriage, she was a known figure in Polish literary life. She co- founded the Raczyński library in Poznań (1829), and translated, illustrated and published German works. References * Jerzy Łojek: Potomkowie Szczęsnego: Dzieje fortuny Potockich z Tulczyna 1799-1921. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1983. . External links Biography 1781 births 1852 deaths People from Tulchyn People from Bracław Voivodeship Potocki family, Konstancja Polish translators Polish illustrators 19th-century Polish women artists 19th-century Polish translators Illustrators from the Russian Empire {{Poland-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
