Fryderyk Józef Moszyński

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Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
Coat of arms Nałęcz
Barbara Rudzieńska, Salomea Rzyszczewska
Full name
Fryderyk Józef Jan Kanty Moszyński
Father Jan Kanty Moszyński
Mother Fryderyka Augusta
Born Dresden
Baptised 14 March 1738
Dresden
Died 22 January 1817
Kiev
Buried Dolsk

Fryderyk Józef Jan Kanty Moszyński (1738 in Dresden – 21 January 1817 in Kiev) of Nałęcz Coat of Arms was a noble (szlachcic) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He held the offices of Referendary of Lithuania, Great Secretary of Lithuania and Great Marshal of the Crown.

A grandson of former king of Poland, August II the Strong, he was educated in Saxony. From 1766-1768 he was the member of Crown Treasury Commission, and from 1768 a vice-commander of the Cadet Corps, a function he performed well, even donating some of his funds to the Szkoła Rycerska. However in 1792 he joined the Targowica Confederation, whose actions resulted in the fall of the Constitution of May 3 and the Second Partition of Poland. In 1793 he was a member of commission investigating a banking crisis in the Commonwealth, and the member of the Permanent Council in charge of police. In the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising during the Kościuszko Uprising, he was imprisoned by the Polish revolutionaries. On 28 June 1794 angry mob stormed the prison with the intention of hanging many of the people considered traitors, Moszyński was saved by the intervention of Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski, although many others - like bishop Ignacy Jakub Massalski or prince Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk - were hanged that day.

References

    This article incorporates information from the revision as of 7 July 2006 of the equivalent article on the Polish Wikipedia.
    Grand Marshals of the Crown
    (Marszałek wielki koronny)


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