Władysław Leon Sapieha

Władysław Leon Adam Feliks Sapieha (30 May 1853 – 29 April 1920^[1]) was a Polish prince (Knyaz) and magnate, member of the Sapieha family (Kodeński line), landowner, social activist, deputy to the Diet of Galicia and Reichsrat.

Władysław Leon was the oldest son of Princes Adam Stanisław Sapieha and Princess Jadwiga Klementyna Sanguszko. He had two sisters and four brothers, one of them was cardinal, Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha. From 1864 to 1871 he was attending gymnasium. Then he was studding law in Berlin and later in Heidelberg, graduating in Lviv in 1876. After graduating he spent one year serving in army. In 1877 he took position as a clerk. He resigned from the job after his brother Leon Paweł persuaded him to manage the family estate in Krasiczyn. In 1883 he was elected deputy to the Diet of Galicia where he was member of the "Center" Parliamentary group, alongside with Prince Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski. As a deputy he was member of parliamentary commissions of: budget, mining, lustration and taxes. He did not apply for re-election in 1889. In 1883 he became member of Economic Society of Galicia. In 1908 he was again elected to the Diet of Galicia. In 1910 he donated archives collected in Krasiczyn to Ossolineum. In 1915 he became a member of life-saving committee for war-stricken people, established by his brother Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha. He also contributed in running the Agricultural Academy in Dublany.

On 30 July 1881, in Cracow, he married Countess Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka, daughter of Count Kazimierz Wojciech Potulicki and Countess Maria Zamoyska. Władysław Leon and Elżbieta Konstancja had ten children^[1]:

• Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1882–1906)
• Leon Aleksander Sapieha (1883–1944) - he married Katarzyna Iza Potocka
• Józef Adam Sapieha (1887–1940)
• Aleksander Józefat Sapieha (1888–1980) - he married firstly Elizabeth Hamilton-Paine and secondly Countess Maria Annunciata von Oppersdorff
• Adam Zygmunt Sapieha
• Władysław Sapieha (1893–1956) - he married Ida Bornemisza de Kászon, who was sister-in-law of Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon
• Andrzej Józef Sapieha (1894–1944)
• Stanisław Sapieha (1896–1919)
• Anna Sapieha (1901–1965) - she married Count Roman Juliusz Bielski
• Teresa Sapieha (1905–1995) - she married Prince Bogdan Marian Drucki-Lubecki

Władysław Leon died on 29 April 1920 in Lviv and was buried in Krasiczyn. He is great-great-grandfather of Belgian heir apparent's wife Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant.^[2]

Ancestry

References

Sources

• Władysław Leon Sapieha at thePeerage.com
• Władysław Leon Sapieha at genealog.home.pl
• Polski słownik biograficzny, Volume 35
• S. Kieniewicz, Adam Sapieha: (1828-1903), Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1939
• K. Krzeczunowicz, Leon Sapieha, 1883-1944, 1967
• E. Sapieha, Dom Sapieżyński, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995
• T. Zielińska, Poczet polskich rodów arystokratycznych, Volume 1, Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, 1997