Anna Leszczyńska née Jabłonowska (1660–1727) was a Polish
noblewoman
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, born into the
House of Jablonowski and the mother of King of Poland
Stanislaus I Leszczyński.
Life
She was the daughter of
Hetman
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Prince
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Stanisław Jan
Jabłonowski and Marianna
Kazanowska. In 1676, she married the
Grand Treasurer
Podskarbi in Poland then in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was minister responsible for the treasury. Since 1569 also a senatorial office. The title although meaning treasurer can be deconstructed as "''under ingtreasury''" - treasury as an old ...
Rafał Leszczyński, son of
Deputy Chancellor Bogusław Leszczyński.
Her son
Stanisław Leszczyński
Stanisław I Leszczyński (; lt, Stanislovas Leščinskis; french: Stanislas Leszczynski; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766), also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at v ...
became King of Poland with Swedish support in 1704 and reigned until 1709. During his first reign her brother
Jan served as Crown Chancellor.
Anna Leszczyńska reportedly lived with her son and his family in his exile after the deposition of 1709, when he moved from Poland to Sweden, in 1714 to Zweibrücken in Germany, and finally, in 1718, to France. Her relationship with Stanislaw was reportedly not happy at this point, as she felt disappointment over the loss of his royal position and exile and blamed this on the actions of Stanislaw, in which she was joined by her daughter-in-law
Catherine Opalińska
Countess Catherine Opalińska ( pl, Katarzyna Opalińska; 13 October 1680 – 19 March 1747), was by birth member of House of Opaliński, Queen consort of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth twice and Duchess consort of Lorraine through her marr ...
.
[Latour, Louis Therese, ]
Princesses Ladies And Salonnieres of The Reign of Louis XV
', 1927
Through her son she was the grandmother of
Maria Leszczyńska
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, who became queen of France by marriage to
Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
in 1725, and therefore the great-great-grandmother of
Louis XVI
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,
Louis XVIII
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, and
Charles X
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.
References
1660 births
1727 deaths
Anna Leszczynska
18th-century Polish nobility
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