Sobieski family
Sobieski family of Janina coat of arms, also known as House of Sobieski due to their royalty connections, were a notable family of Polish nobility. According to the family's legend, disproved by modern historians, it traced its lineage to Polish duke, Leszek II the Black. The family reached height of its power and importance in late 16th and 17th centuries, when one of its members were elected king of Poland: John III Sobieski (Jan III Sobieski). The last male member of the branch of the family that begun with John's grandfather, Marek Sobieski, in 16th century, was Jakub Ludwik Sobieski (1667–1737).
Notable members:
- Marek Sobieski (1549/1550–1605), voivode of Lublin, father of Jakub Sobieski
- Jakub Sobieski (1590–1646), father of King John III Sobieski
- John III Sobieski, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 to 1696
- Katarzyna Sobieska (1634–1694), sister of King John
- Marek Sobieski (1628–1652), brother of King John
- Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski (1677–1714), son of King John III Sobieski
- Jakub Ludwik Sobieski (James Louis Henry Sobieski (1667–1737), another son of King John III Sobieski and last member of the family's branch started with Marek Sobieski
- Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676–1730), Polish princess
- Maria Klementyna Sobieska (1702–1735), wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender
- Maria Karolina Sobieska (1696–1740) duchess of Bouillon and last surviving member of the family.
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