Izabela Elżbieta Morsztyn

Who was Izabela Elżbieta Morsztyn?

Princess Izabela Elżbieta Czartoryska was a Polish noble lady.

Morsztyn married Kazimierz Czartoryski in 1693. Along with her husband she supported Prince of Conti as a candidate to the Polish throne.

In 1736 in Warsaw, she established the first political salon, where politicians met and the Familia party conferred. Women played a significant role in those meetings.

One of her daughters, Konstancja Czartoryska, married Stanisław Poniatowski, and became mother of Stanisław August Poniatowski, king of Poland.

She is an ancestor of Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, Queen of the Belgians. Izabela Elżbieta Morsztynand Prince Kazimierz Czartoryski's great-granddaughter Zofia Czartoryska and her husband Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski are Prince Leon Sapieha-Kodenski's parents-in-law. Prince Leon's great-great-granddaughter, Princess Zofia Sapieha-Kodenska, is Queen Mathilde's maternal grandmother, who died in a car accident with the princess's sister, Marie-Alix d'Udekem d'Acoz. They are 10th-generation ancestors to Queen Mathilde.