Antoni Protazy Potocki

Antoni Protazy Potocki
Coat of arms Piława
Consort Marianna Lubomirska

Issue

with Marianna Lubomirska
Emilia Potocka
Family Potocki
Father Jan Prosper Potocki
Mother Paula Szembek
Born September 11, 1761Expression error: Unrecognized word "september".
Guzów near Skierniewice
Died 1801

Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, was a Polish noble (szlachcic). Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781.

Antoni became a banker in Warsaw and was also voivode of Kiev Voivodship in 1791 and starost of Guzów, Żyrardów County.[1]

He was the owner of Chudniv and organized several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv. He directed the Polish Black Sea Trading Company, and ran an import-export business in Russian-ruled Kherson. He inherited from his father big capital. Potocki bankrupted in 1793 in connection to financial crisis.[2]

References

  1. Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134.
  2. Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.