To marry a foreigner... von Anna Penkala-Jastrzębska - Buch

“It is not a great confusion to compete for a decent lady, even without the desired success, because ne se point risquer without a proper understanding of matters”1, 2. The quoted statement of the Crown Secretary Jakub Dunin (died in 1730), written in one of the letters to the Lithuanian Deputy Master’s wife Anna Potocka née Dunin (died in 1717), perfectly reflects the approach to courtship that guided the eighteenth-century marriage policy. Finding a suitable candidate for marriage could determine both one’s own success and be an important element in building the prestige of the family...

List of contents Introduction 4 Chapter 1. Legal conditions for contracting marriages between Polish nobility and foreigners in the 17th and 18th centuries 31 Chapter 2. Marriages with foreigners until 1674 44 Marriages with foreigners until the mid-17th century. Outline of the problem 44 Marriage Policy of Queen Louise Maria Gonzaga 60 Chapter 3. The reign of Jan III Sobieski 76 Marriage policy in the circle of Maria Casimira Sobieska 79 Ludwika Karolina née Radziwiłł and the matter of the Neuburg properties 102 The Sobieski family – royal children's marriages 113 Chapter 4. The times of Augustus II 121 The period of the Northern War and the formation of the court party 124 Magnetism of the Dresden court. Politics, culture, customs. A new kind of relationship with foreigners 151 Marriages in royal families - Sobieski and Leszczyński families 230 Social systems at the end of the reign of Augustus II 243 Chapter 5. The reign of Augustus III 265 Development of contacts with foreigners. New directions of marriage policy 265 The last years of the reign of Augustus III - a change in the nature of marriages with foreigners 301 Chapter 6. The reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski 332 Marriages with foreigners in the court circle 332 Chapter 7. Marriages with foreigners - chronological and quantitative list 364 Conclusion 404 Annex. Source edition – collection of documents written by representatives of the Polish nobility with representatives of foreign aristocratic houses 415 1. 1647 Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł and Lukrecja Maria de Strozzi 417 2. 1667 Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski and Domicella Izabela de Portia 420 3. 1670 Stanisław Wessel and Barbara Starhemberg 423 4. 1690 Stanisław Kazimierz Radziwiłł and Maria Katarzyna de Béthune 425 5. 1694 Maksymilian II Emanuel Wittelsbach and Sobieska Teresa Kunegunda 429 6. 1702 Jakub Henryk Flemming and Izabela z Sapiehów 436 7. 1720 Piotr Dunin and Fryderyka von Rochlitz 438 8. 1722 Antoni Wnorowski and Marianna de Heinsch 441 9. 1724 Michał Bieliński and Maria Aurora Rutowska(Maria Anna von Spiegel) 443 10. 1725 Jakub Henryk Flemming and Tekla Róża Radziwiłł 447 11. 1728 Robert Farquchar Filligramont and Anna Barbara Jeniquin de Gemsendorft 450 12. 1730 Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł and Maria Franciszka Dorota, księżniczka de Sulsbach 453 13. 1731 Adam Dionizy Gołuchowski and Eleonora Florentyna Falkenhein 459 14. 1752 Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Fryderyka Dorota de Brandenburg- Schwedt- preliminary points 462 15. 1752 Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Fryderyka Dorota de Brandenburg- Schwedt— explanation of preliminary points 464 16. 1760 Karol Chrystian Józef Wettyn and Krasińska Franciszka 468 17. 1778 Karol Ernest Biron, Duke of Courland and Apolonia Ponińska 470 Bibliography 473