Sobieski (singular masculine; singular feminine: Sobieska; plural: Sobiescy) is a

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People

Sobieski family The House of Sobieski (plural: Sobiescy, feminine form: Sobieska) was a prominent magnate family of Polish nobility in the 16th and 17th centuries from which the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Jan III Sobieski originated. The family ...

, or the House of Sobieski, a notable family of Polish nobility, whose members included: **

Marek Sobieski Marek Sobieski (1549/1550 – 1605) was a Polish–Lithuanian noble ( szlachcic). He was a courtier from 1577, a Royal Court Chorąży (chorąży nadworny królewski) from 1581, a castellan of Lublin from 1597, and a voivode of Lublin Voiv ...

(1549/1550–1605), voivode of Lublin, father of Jakub Sobieski **

Jakub Sobieski Jakub Sobieski (5 May 1590 – 23 June 1646) was a Polish noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist, military leader and father of King John III Sobieski. He was the son of castellan and voivode Marek Sobieski and Jadwiga Snopko ...

(1590–1646), father of King John III Sobieski ** John III Sobieski (1629–1696), King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 to 1696 ** Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski (1677–1714), son of King John III Sobieski **

Jakub Ludwik Sobieski James Louis Henry Sobieski ( Polish: ''Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski''; French: ''Jacques Louis Henri de Sobieski'') 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737) was a Polish-French nobleman, politician, diplomat, scholar, traveller and the son of John II ...

(James Louis Henry Sobieski (1667–1737), son of King John III Sobieski and last male line descendant of Marek Sobieski **

Teofila Zofia Sobieska Teofila Zofia Sobieska, née Daniłowicz (Polish: ''Daniłowiczówna'') (1607 – 27 November 1661) was a Polish noblewoman (''szlachcianka''), mother of Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland. Zofia Teofila was the daughter of Voivode of Ruthenia Ja ...

(1607–1661) **

Katarzyna Sobieska Katarzyna Sobieska (1634–1694) was the sister of King John III Sobieski of Poland and a noblewoman. She married Władysław Dominik Zasławski in 1650. She was later married to Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł on 13 June 1658. 1634 bi ...

(1634–1694) ** Konstanty Władysław Sobieski (1680-1726) ** Maria Teresa Sobieska (1673–1675) **

Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska Theresa Kunegunda ( pl, Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska, german: Kurfürstin Therese Kunigunde) (4 March 1676 – 10 March 1730) was a Polish princess, Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate. By birth she was member of the House o ...

(1676–1730), Polish princess **

Maria Klementyna Sobieska Maria Clementina Sobieska ( pl, Maria Klementyna Sobieska; 18 July 1702 – 18 January 1735) a titular queen of England, Scotland and Ireland by marriage to James Francis Edward Stuart, a Jacobite claimant to the British throne. The granddaughte ...

(1702–1735), wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, the ''Old Pretender'' ** Maria Teresa Sobieska (1673–1675) **

Maria Karolina Sobieska Maria Karolina Sobieska (25 November 1697 – 8 May 1740) was a Polish noblewoman, daughter of Jakub Ludwik Sobieski. Known as Marie Charlotte or only Charlotte, she was the Princess of Turenne and later Duchess of Bouillon by marriage. Charlo ...

(1697–1740), duchess of Bouillon and last surviving member of the family. Other people with the surname Sobieski: *

Ben Sobieski Benjamin James Sobieski (born May 3, 1979) is a former American football player. He attended Mahtomedi Senior High School and the University of Iowa before being drafted in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft (number 151 overall) by the Buffalo ...

(born 1979), American football player * Carol Sobieski (1939–1990), American screenwriter *

Leelee Sobieski Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta "Leelee" Sobieski (born June 10, 1983) is an American artist and former actress. She achieved fame in her teens with roles in films such as '' Deep Impact'', ''Eyes Wide Shut'', '' Joy Ride'', '' Here on Earth'', a ...

(born 1982), American actress * Wacław Sobieski (1872–1935), Polish historian See also Sobieski Stuarts (born 1795 & 1802), two brothers who claimed Stuart ancestry.

Places

;Poland * Sobieski, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland * Sobieski, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-east Poland ;United States * Sobieski, Minnesota, city * Sobieski, Wisconsin, census-designated place * Sobieski Corners, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Other uses

* ''Sobieski'' (train), a EuroCity express train between Vienna and Warsaw *

Sobieski Institute Instytut Sobieskiego (The Sobieski Institute) is a think tank founded in Poland in 2004, known for its political advocacy of the Polish conservative political movement. The Poland's social conservative party Law and Justice , which governed Polan ...

(''Instytut Sobieskiego''), a Polish think tank * Sobieski Vodka, Polish vodka * MS ''Sobieski'', a Polish liner used as a troopship in World War II. * Sobieski Stuarts {{disambiguation, surname Polish-language surnames