Kazimierz Ludwik Bieliński (1663) was a Polish noble, politician and diplomat. He held several prominent offices in the

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. He was the

starost Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', ) is a community elder in some Slavic lands. The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...

of several counties. He obtained the central office of Crown Court Chamberlain from 1688 to 1702.

Court Crown Marshal A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and administer justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. Courts general ...

in 1702 and soon afterward he became the Grand Crown Marshal (1702-1713). He was a deputy to numerous

Sejm The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...

s (1683, 1688, 1690,

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in 1697). He had a large court at the

Palace in Otwock Wielki A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome whi ...

. He was a member of the

Sandomierz Confederation The Sandomierz Confederation was an anti- Swedish confederation, formed on 20 May 1704 in defense of the King of Poland, August II the Strong. It was formed in reaction to the Warsaw Confederation, and its marshal was Stanisław Ernest Denhoff. T ...

. Recipient of the Order of the White Eagle. Son of Jan Franciszek Bieliński. In 1682, he married Ludwika Maria Morsztyn. Father of

Franciszek Bieliński Franciszek Bieliński of Junosza coat of arms (1683–1766) was a Polish statesman. A Crown Grand Marshal, Marshal of Prussia and a voivode of Chełmno, he is best remembered as a strong proponent of the expansion and the modernisation of the c ...

(b. 1683),

Marianna Denhoff Marianna Denhoff (1685–1730), also Maria Magdalena, Gräfin von Dönhoff, née Bielińska, was a German-Polish aristocrat. She was the daughter of Kazimierz Ludwik Bieliński, a noble, politician, and diplomat and Ludwika Maria Morsztyn, daug ...

(b.1685, lover of

August II of Poland Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the H ...

), Katarzyna Bielińska (1684–1761), and others. Kazimierz Ludwik Bieliński's daughter Katarzyna Bielińska (1684–1761) married on 18 September 1716 Jean Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, a Swiss noble in French service, who was the French ambassador to Poland at the time. Their son,

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, a

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and military officer in French service, resided in the

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. The baron's former Parisian residence has housed the

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of the

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since 1938.Jean-Jacques Fiechter / Benno Schubiger: ''L'Ambassade de Suisse à Paris,'' Ambassade de Suisse, 2ème édition, août 1994, p. 11Gabrielle Claerr Stamm: ''De Soleure à Paris : La saga de la famille de Besenval, seigneurs de Brunstatt, Riedisheim et Didenheim,'' Société d'Histoire du Sundgau, 2015, p. 98

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