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    Czartoryski. The House of Czartoryski (feminine form: Czartoryska, plural: Czartoryscy; Lithuanian: Čartoriskiai) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian [3] - Ruthenian [4] origin, also known as the Familia. The family, which derived their kin from the Gediminids dynasty, [5] [6] by the mid-17th century had split into two branches, based in ...

  2. Adam Jerzy, Prince Czartoryski (born January 14, 1770, Warsaw, Pol.—died July 15, 1861, Montfermeil, France) was a Polish statesman who worked unceasingly for the restoration of Poland when Russia, Prussia, and Austria had partitioned his country’s former lands among themselves. Czartoryski was the most renowned member of a princely family ...

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  4. CZARTORYSKI, ADAM JERZY. (1770 – 1861), Polish statesman, diplomat, and soldier. Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was the scion of an aristocratic Polish family, the son of Prince Adam Kazimierz and Izabella (nee Fleming) Czartoryski. He fought in the Polish army during the war of the second partition in 1793, after which his father's estates ...

  5. Czartoryski family, the leading noble family of Poland in the 18th century, eclipsing the rival Potocki family in both power and prestige.. Although the members of the Czartoryski family trace their lineage back to the 14th-century noble Gedymin (Gediminas) of Lithuania, they first achieved widespread power through the efforts of Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski and his brother August Aleksander ...

  6. Jan 24, 2020 · Adam Karol Czartoryski, who was born in Seville shortly after his father escaped Poland in 1938, was the legal heir to the collection as the great-great grandson of Adam Jerzy. In 2016, he ...

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