Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha (4 December 1828– 21 July 1903) was a Polish
nobleman
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,
landlord
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, politician.
His mother was a daughter of the 12th
Ordynat
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of the
Ordynacja Zamojska Count
Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski.
In 1894, he became Head of the Exhibition Committee of the
General National Exhibition in Lviv
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.
Children
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Władysław Leon Sapieha
Prince Władysław Leon Adam Feliks Sapieha (30 May 1853 – 29 April 1920) was a Polish prince ('' Kniaź'') and magnate, member of the Sapieha family (Kodeński line), landowner, social activist, deputy to the Diet of Galicia and Reichsrat.
...
(1853-1920) - husband of Countess
Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka, great-grandfather of Queen
Mathilde of Belgium
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* Maria Jadwiga Sapieha (1855-1929) - wife of Count Stanisław Żółtowski
* Leon Paweł Sapieha (1856-1893) - husband of Princess Teresa Elżbieta z Sanguszków-Kowelska
* Helena Maria Sapieha (1857-1947) - wife of Count Edward Adam Stadnicki
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Paweł Jan Sapieha
Paul John Sapieha ( lt, Povilas Jonas Sapiega) (1609–1665) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic).
Sapieha became a Hussar Rotmistrz in 1633, courtier in 1635, Obozny of Lithuania in 1638, Podstoli of Lithuania in 1645, voivode o ...
(1860-1934) - first president of the Polish
Red Cross
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, married to Matylda Paula Eleonora z Windisch-Graetzów
* Jan Piotr Sapieha (1865-1954) - husband of Alicja Probyn
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Adam Stefan Sapieha
Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Cardinal Sapieha (; 14 May 1867 – 23 July 1951) was a senior-ranking Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. Between 1922 and 1923, he was a se ...
(1867-1951) - Cardinal-Archbishop Krakow, Poland
Bibliography
* Obywatele Honorowi Królewskiego Wolnego Miasta Sanoka, Sanok 2002, s. 55-56.
References
Ancestry
1828 births
1903 deaths
Nobility from Warsaw
People from Congress Poland
Adam Stanislaw
Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1871–1873)
Members of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria
Polish diplomats of the January Uprising
20th-century Polish landowners
19th-century Polish landowners
Knights of the Golden Fleece
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