Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
Noble person
1730 – 1819
Who was Franciszek Ksawery Branicki?
Franciszek Ksawery Branicki was a Polish nobleman of the Korczak coat of arms, magnate and one of the leaders of the Targowica Confederation.
He was designated the following: Great Crown Podstoli in 1764, Ambassador in Berlin in 1765, Master of the Hunt of the Crown in 1766–1773, Artillery General of Lithuania in 1768–1773, Ambassador in Moscow in 1771, Field Crown Hetman in 1773 and Great Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1774–1794.
Branicki was awarded the Order of the White Eagle in December 1764. He married Aleksandra von Engelhardt, a niece of Prince Potemkin, in 1781.
He opposed the reforms of the Great Sejm, and supported the Hetman Party and the Targowica Confederation. He escaped the sentence of death he received in absentia from the Supreme Criminal Court during the Kościuszko Uprising.
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- Born
- 1730
Barwałd Górny - Also known as
- Браницкий, Франциск Ксаверий
- Spouses
- Aleksandra von Engelhardt
(1781 - 1819/04)
- Aleksandra von Engelhardt
- Children
- Died
- 1819
Bila Tserkva
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on July 23, 2013
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