Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

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Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
Noble Family Branicki
Coat of Arms Korczak
Parents Piotr Branicki
Melania Teresa Szembek
Consorts Aleksandra von Engelhardt
Children with Aleksandra von Engelhardt
Katarzyna Branicka
Aleksander Branicki
Władysław Grzegorz Branicki
Zofia Branicka
Elżbieta Branicka
Date of Birth 1730
Place of Birth  ?
Date of Death April, 1819
Place of Death Biała Cerkiew, Russian Empire
(now Ukraine)

Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (1730-1819) was a Polish nobleman, magnate and one of the leaders of the Targowica Confederation.

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

Great Crown Podstoli in 1764, Ambassador in Berlin in 1765, Master of the Hunt of the Crown in 1766-1773, Artillery General of Lithuania in 1768-1773, Field Crown Hetman in 1773 and Great Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1774-1794.

Awarded with White Eagle Order in December 1764. He married Aleksandra von Engelhardt in 1781.

Opponent of the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-1792), supporter of the Targowica Confederation. Sentenced to death in absentia by the Supreme Criminal Court during the Kościuszko Uprising (1794).

Korczak Coat of Arms
Korczak Coat of Arms


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