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Władysław Leon Adam Feliks Sapieha (30 May 1853 – 29 April 1920) was a Polish prince ('' Kniaź'') and

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, member of the

Sapieha family The House of Sapieha (; be, Сапега, ''Sapieha''; lt, Sapiega) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Lithuanian and Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the medi ...

(Kodeński line), landowner,

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, deputy to the

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and Reichsrat. Władysław Leon was the oldest son of Prince

Adam Stanisław Sapieha Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha (4 December 1828– 21 July 1903) was a Polish nobleman, landlord, politician. His mother was a daughter of the 12th Ordynat of the Ordynacja Zamojska Count Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski. In 1894, he became H ...

and Princess Jadwiga Klementyna

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. He had two sisters and four brothers, among them cardinal Prince

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 ...

. From 1864 to 1871, Leon attended gymnasium, then studied law in Berlin and later in

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, and graduated in

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in 1876. After graduating, he spent one year serving in army. In 1877, he took a position as a clerk but resigned from the job after his brother Leon Paweł persuaded him to manage the family estate in

Krasiczyn Krasiczyn (; uk, Красічин, Krasichyn) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Krasiczyn. The village has a population of 440 ...

. In 1883, he was elected deputy to the Diet of Galicia where he was member of the "Center"

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along with Prince

Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski Prince Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski (1828–1912

Galicia. In 1908, he was again elected to the

. In 1910, he donated archives collected in Krasiczyn to

Ossolineum Ossoliński National Institute ( pl, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lv ...

. In 1915, he became a member of the life-saving committee for war-stricken people, established by his brother Prince

. He also contributed to running the

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. From 1907 he was a member of the

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. On 30 July 1881, in Cracow, he married Countess Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka, daughter of Count Kazimierz Wojciech Potulicki and Countess Maria Zamoyska. Władysław Leon and Elżbieta Konstancja had ten children:M.J. Miankowski, ''Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego'': Władysław Leon Sapieha
/ref> * Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1882–1906) * Leon Aleksander Sapieha (1883–1944) - he married Katarzyna Iza Potocka * Józef Adam

Sapieha The House of Sapieha (; be, Сапега, ''Sapieha''; lt, Sapiega) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Lithuanian and Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the med ...

(1887–1940) * Aleksander Józefat

(1888–1980) - he married firstly Elizabeth Hamilton-Paine and secondly Countess Maria Annunciata von Oppersdorff * Adam Zygmunt Sapieha (1892–1970) * Władysław

(1893–1956) - he married Ida Bornemisza de Kászon, who was sister-in-law of

Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon Heinrich Thyssen (31 October 1875 – 26 June 1947), after 22 June 1907 Heinrich Freiherr Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, was a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector. Biography Thyssen was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, the ...

* Andrzej Józef

(1894–1944) * Stanisław Sapieha (1896–1919) * Anna

(1901–1965) - she married Count Roman Juliusz Bielski * Teresa

(1905–1995) - she married Prince Bogdan Marian Drucki-Lubecki Władysław Leon died on 29 April 1920 in Lviv and was buried in Krasiczyn. He is great-great-grandfather of Queen Mathilde of the Belgians.M.J. Miankowski, ''Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego'': Mathilde Marie Christine d'Udekem d'Acoz
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Ancestry

References

Sources

* Władysław Leon Sapieha a
genealog.home.pl
* ''Polski słownik biograficzny'', Volume 35 * S. Kieniewicz, ''Adam Sapieha: (1828–1903)'', Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1939 * K. Krzeczunowicz, ''Leon Sapieha, 1883-1944'', 1967 * E. Sapieha, ''Dom Sapieżyński'', Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995 * T. Zielińska, ''Poczet polskich rodów arystokratycznych'', Volume 1, Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, 1997 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sapieha, Wladyslaw Leon 1853 births 1920 deaths Wladyslaw Leon Sapieha Ruthenian nobility Politicians from Lviv