Augustyn Józef Czartoryski

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Augustyn Józef Czartoryski
Noble Family	Czartoryski
Coat of Arms	Czartoryski
Parents	Adam Ludwik Czartoryski Maria Ludwika Krasińska
Consorts	Marie Delores
Children	with Marie Delores Adam Karol Czartoryski Ludwik Piotr Czartoryski
Date of Birth	October 10, 1907
Place of Birth	Warsaw, Poland
Date of Death	July 1, 1946
Place of Death	Seville, Spain

Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907-1946) was a Polish noble (szlachcic).

Augustyn takes over the running of the Family Museum and become ordynat of the Sieniawa Ordynacja properties. He married Princess Dolores de Borbon y Orleans, daughter of The Infant Don Carlos de Borbon and Princess Luisa D'Orleans.

Due to the prospect of war The Museum prepares 16 cases with the most precious objects to be transported to Sieniawa Palace and walled up. The rest of the items are carried down to the Museum cellars, but in September as the bombs fall on Kraków Prince Agustyn and Princess Dolores already pregnant decide to leave Sieniawa for a better refuge. On the 18 September German troops find the cases and loot for small tradable objects.

After the Germans move on Prince Agustyn removes all the treasures to his cousin's estate in Pelkinie saving them from the Russian army, but the Gestapo traces all objects and removes all important cases from their hiding places and soon after Prince Agustyn and Princess Dolores are picked up by the Gestapo and put under arrest. After heavy negotiation and thanks to their Royal Italian and Spanish connections they are deported and manage to reach Spain before the end of 1939.

In 1946 Prince Agustyn dies and was buried in the Crypt of Silesian Church in Seville, Spain.