Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska

Sofia Anna Czarnkowska (also called Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska or Catherine-Sophie-Anne Czarnkowska) (12 March 1660-2 December 1701^[1]) was the daughter of Adam Uriel Czarnkowski and Theresa Zaleska. She was also the grand-mother of Marie Leszczynska (who would be Queen Consort of France, married to Louis XV of France) and Anne Leszczynska.

She died on 8 December 1701 from pneumonia^[2] aged 41, at Breslau (today Wrocław).^[3]

A monument was erected in 1748 in the church of Sierakow.^[4] The crypt in a nearby castle contains the sarcophagus of the Opalinski family.

Among her matrilineal descendants is the current reigning King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who is her descendant through an unbroken line of Bourbon princesses from Marie Leszczynska of France, who married within the Bourbon house.

Succession

She was married to Jan Karol Opalinski on December 4, 1678. They had several children:

• Maria (August 1679-October 1679)
• Catherine (Katarzyna) Opalińska, Queen of Poland (1680–1743)
• Stillborn child (1681)
• Stanislas (1682-1682)

Opaliński-Czarnkowski family

See also

• Opaliński family

References

1. ^ Mercure historique et politique, mois de janvier 1747
2. ^ (French) Histoire de Stanislas I. roi de Pologne, par monsieur D. C***, 1740
3. ^ (French) Les souverains du monde, par Ferdinand Ludwig von Bressler und Aschenburg, Cavelier, 1734
4. ^ (Polish) Story of the church of Sierakow, on the parish site of the city