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

magnate The term magnate, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

, member of the

Sapieha family The House of Sapieha (; ; ; ) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the medieval boyars of Smolensk and Polotsk. Vernadsky, George. ...

(Kodeński line), landowner,

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, deputy to the Diet of Galicia 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, Jadwiga Sapieżyna, was a daughter of the 12th Ordynat of the Ordynacja Zamojska Count Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski. I ...

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 Sapieha (; 14 May 1867 – 23 July 1951) was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a senator ...

. 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. 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. As a deputy, he was a member of the parliamentary commissions of budget, mining, lustration and taxes. He did not apply for re-election in 1889. In 1883, he became a member of the Economic Society of Galicia. In 1908, he was again elected to the Diet of Galicia. In 1910, he donated archives collected in Krasiczyn to

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. 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 Agricultural Academy in Dublany. 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 (; ; ; ) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the medieval boyars of Smolensk and Polotsk. Vernadsky, George. ...

(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

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* 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 the 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 People from Austria-Hungary