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From: "Rafal Heydel-Mankoo" <>
Subject: The Princely House of Jablonowski (Extinct: 2004)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:23:09 +0000


As mentioned, with the death yesterday of Princess Zofia Jablonowska, the
Princely House of Jablonowski is no more. I therefore hope you will all
humour me and permit me to post some basic information for posterity. The
extinction of a great dynasty is a sad event and deserves recognition and
this is my way of paying tribute. The family has connections with the
Sobieski, Stuart and Bourbon dynasties and played an important role in many
European affairs.


JABLONOWSKI (Princes HRE, Austria) Serene Highness.


The senior represenative of the Prince House of Jablonowski is now
Baron Wladyslaw Heydel, son of Baron Adam Heydel (1895-1975) by his
wife HSH Princess Karolina Katarzyna Jablonowska (1906-1956).


Hereditary title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire granted by Emperor
Charles VII to various members of the family in 1743 and 1744. Title
was recognised in Poland in 1775, in Austria in 1777, 1820 and 1827 and
in Russia in 1844. In 1824 the Jablonowskis appeared in the list of
families authorised to bear the title of Prince in the Kingdom of
Poland. On July 20 1905 the Jablonowskis received confirmation of
their right to the qualification of Serene Highness (originally granted
in 1704).


Details on a selected number of famous members:


STANISLAS JAN Jablonowski 1634-1702 (Grand Hetman of the Crown
1683-1702). Polish second-in-command at the Battle of Vienna, 1683.
Famed commander in numerous battles against the Ottomans and moderniser
of the Polish cavalry. Defender of L'vov -- for which he was honoured
with a statue in the city. His bust is also found in the National Hall
of Polish heroes in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. A devout christian, he
erected several churches in modern day Ukraine and left treasures at
the sacred shrine of Czestochowa. Stanislaw Jan was a one time
contender for the Polish throne and one time suitor of Queen Marie,
widow of King Jan III Sobieski (interestingly his son would marry Queen
Marie's neice). He was also King Charles II's (Stuart) proxy at the
christening of the daughters of King Jan III Sobieski. His suit of
armour remains one of Poland's great military treasures.


Stanislas Jan Jablonowski was the grandfather of King Stanislas I
Leszczynski and the great-grandfather of Queen Marie Leszczynska, wife
of King Louis XV of France and therefore the ancestor of many crowned
heads of Europe.
A new biography was published in 2000:
http://www.polonia.com/polishbooks/product.asp?sku=4736


ANNA Jablonowska 1658-1727. Daughter of the above. Married Rafal
Leszczynski. Anna was the mother of King Stanislas I Leszczynski and
grandmother of Queen Marie Leszczynska of France.


JAN STANISLAS Jablonowski 1669-1731. Palatine of Ruthenia. Son of
Stanislas Jan. Married to Jeanne-Marie de Bethune, daughter of the
Marquis de Chabris, Louis XIV's ambassador to Poland by his wife
Marie-Louise de la Grange. Marie-Louise was the sister of Marie
Casimire de la Grange, Queen of Poland, wife of King Jan III Sobieski
and grandmother of Princess Maria Sobieska, "Queen of Great Britain" as
wife of James III (Stuart), the Old Pretender. Thus Marie-Casimire was
also the great-grandmother of Charles "III" and Henry "IX" Cardinal
Duke of York. Jeanne-Marie Jablonowska corresponded with her Stuart
cousins very frequently and played an important role in the
Bouillon-Sobieksi-Stuart marriage saga. She also tried to convince
James III to pay for the funeral of his father-in-law.


MARIE-LOUISE Jablonowska, Princess de Talmont. First public mistress of
her second cousin once removed, Charles III, The Young Pretender. As a
niece of King Sobieski's wife, a cousin of the wife of King Louis XV, a
cousin of the wife of the Old Pretender and a cousin to the Young
Pretender she was extremely well placed. Voltaire sang her praises
(though Horace Walpole found her a bore). She married Anne Charles
Frederique de La Tremouille, Prince de Talmonr. In the summer of 1748,
aged forty-seven, she became the mistress of her twenty-years younger
cousin, Charles Edward Stuart, 'the Young Pretender'. Theirs was a
torrid love affair that caused a great scandal and was of great
annoyance to the King of France and the exiled King of Poland. The
Young Pretender physically assaulted her and yet she remained in love
with him. To her dying days she wore a locket containing a portrait of
Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Young Pretender. When a person once
enquired as to the reason for the two portraits, a quick wit replied:
"Because neither of their kingdoms are of this world." The famous
portrait of the Young Pretender that today hangs in the National
Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh was a gift to Jablonowska from Charles
III.


KATARZYNA Jablonowska 1696 - 1759. Mistress to her cousin, King
Stanislas I. Wife of Prince Franciszek Ossolinski.


JOZEF ALEKSANDER Jablonowski. A great man of letters and science.
Author of important genealogical and heraldic texts, a great patron of
the arts and, in 1774, the founder of the "Jablonowski Society"
(Societas Jablonoviana /Frstlich Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der
Wissenschaf) in Leipzig which exists to this very day and continues to
present awards in recognition of outstanding original research and
scholarship on scientific subjects. The Society medal bears a bust of
Jozef Aleksander on the obverse and his arms on the reverse. Jozef
Aleksander married
Jablonowski Society: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/jablonoviana/


Jozef Aleksander was married to Princess Karolina Radziwill and
secondly to Princess Franciszka Woroniecka.


JAN KAJETAN Jablonowski. Grandee of Spain. Field Marshal.


ANTONI BARNABA Jablonowski. Signatory to the Polish Constitution of May
3, 1791. Castellan of Krakow.


ANNA Jablonowska, nee Sapieha. Famous land reformer who improved living
conditions and freed her serfs. A school is named after her.


Some interesting connections:


Prince Karol Jablonowski (1807-1885) was married to Countess Eleonora
Skarbek, upon whose estate Frederik Chopin grew up. Chopin's father was
a tutor to the Skarbek children.


Princess Terka Jablonowska was married to Maurice Bernhardt, son of
Sarah Bernhardt and the Prince de Ligne. She is buried in the Bernhardt
tomb in Pere Lachaise in Paris which, incidentally, is where the late
Zofia Puslowska, nee Princess Jablonowska will be laid to rest.


HSH Prince Stanislaw Jablonowski (1879-1921) was married to Jadwiga
Mineyko. Jadwiga's sister was married to Greek Prime Minister George
Papandreou. Their son, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou was
therefore the first cousin of the late Princess Zofia Jablonowska.


A descendancy chart from Jan Stanislaw Jablonowski:
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/plantagenet/janjablonowskidesc16...


Genealogy.eu:
http://www.genealogy.euweb.cz/poland/jablon1.html


Paul Theroff's On Line Gotha:
http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/jablonowski.html


Sincerely,


Rafal Heydel-Mankoo
The Polish Aristocracy: http://www.geocities.com/polishnobles


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