Roman Potocki

Count Roman Potocki (16 December 1852 – 24 September 1915) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and politician.

Count
Roman Potocki
Portrait of Count Potocki, by Teodor Axentowicz
Born(1852-12-16)16 December 1852
Łańcut, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
Died24 September 1915(1915-09-24) (aged 62)
Łańcut, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Noble familyPotocki
Spouse(s)
Countess Izabella Potocka
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(m. 1882; died 1883)​
    Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł
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    (m. 1885)​
    IssueCount Alfred Antoni Potocki
    Count Jerzy Józef Henryk Potocki
    FatherCount Alfred Józef Potocki
    MotherPrincess Maria Klementyna Sanguszko

    Early life

    Count Roman was born on 16 December 1852 at Łańcut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, in what was then a part of the Austrian Empire.[1] He was a son of Count Alfred Józef Potocki, Minister-President of Austria, and Princess Maria Klementyna Sanguszko.[2][3] His brother, Count Józef Mikołaj Potocki, married his second wife's younger sister, Princess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł.[3]

    His paternal grandparents were Count Alfred Wojciech Potocki (the son of writer Jan Potocki, best known for his famous novel "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa") and Princess Józefina Maria Czartoryska. His maternal grandparents were Prince Roman Sanguszko and Countess Natalia Potocka.

    Career

    He ran a family distillery, which is today known as Polmos Łańcut. Following his father's death, he became Third Lord Ordynat of Łańcut estates (which his father had inherited from his father).

    He was a member of the Polish Circle in the Council of State for Austria-Hungary and served in the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria, was a member of Austrian Imperial Council from 1882 to 1890, and was a Member of the Austrian House of Lords in 1890.

    Awarded with the Order of the Golden Fleece.

    Personal life

    On 21 November 1882, he married Countess Izabella Potocka in Warsaw. She was a daughter of Count Stanislaw Potocki and Princess Maria Sapieha-Kodenska. She died in Vienna on 21 March 1883.[4]

    On 16 June 1885, he married Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł (1861–1950) in Berlin.[5] She was a daughter of Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł and Marie de Castellane (the daughter of French aristocrats Henri de Castellane and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord).[6] Before their divorce, they had two children:

    Count Potocki died in Łańcut on 24 September 1915, in what by then had become Austria-Hungary.[10]

    References
    1. Gazeta Lwowska (in Polish). 1852. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    2. Wasylewski, Stanisław (1959). Czterdzieści lat powodzenia: przebieg mojego życia (in Polish). Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 455. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    3. Potocka, Maria Małgorzata z Radziwiłłów Franciszkowa (1983). Z moich wspomnień: pamiętnik (in Polish). Katolicki Ośrodek Wydawniczy Veritas. pp. 379, 482–483. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    4. The Book of Kings: The families. 1973. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    5. Wideryński, Mariusz (1998). The Castle of Łańcut. MW. ISBN 978-83-87758-01-1. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    6. "PRINCESS RADZIWILL DIES IN GERMANY; Widow of Prince Anton Succumbs at Her Kleinitz Palace at 75 Years, ONCE LEADER IN SOCIETY Her Grandson Married Dorothy Deacon -- Visited on Birthdays by Emperor William". The New York Times. 13 July 1915. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
    7. Blobaum, Robert E. (1 November 2016). Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-0534-2. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    8. Topolski, Jerzy (1993). Dzieje Polski: 1795-1918 (in Polish). Wydawn. Naukowe PWN. ISBN 978-83-01-08891-0. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    9. "POLISH AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON QUITS; Count Potocki Resigns After 4 Years--Gives No Reason". The New York Times. 12 November 1940. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
    10. Genealogy of the Minchakievich Family in America, Chapter Two: Helen Irene Marynowska-Potocki Minchakievich, p. 38.
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