Maria Teresa Poniatowska

Maria Teresa by an unknown artist, c.1797.

Maria Teresa Antoinette Josephine Poniatowska (28 November 1760, Vienna, then under the Habsburg Monarchy, now Austria - 2 November 1834, Tours, France) was a Polish noblewoman.

Life

She was the eldest child of Theresy, countess of Wchinitz and Tettau, and her husband Andrzej Poniatowski, a Polish nobleman serving in the Austrian and Czech armies and brother of Stanisław August Poniatowski. One of her godparents was empress Maria Theresa. Her father died of tuberculosis when she was thirteen and so Stanisław became her guardian.

Living in Vienna, she fell ill aged sixteen and had to have part of an eyeball removed. When she reached eighteen Stanisław arranged for her to marry Wincentego Tyszkiewicza of the house of Leliwa, count of Łohojsku and Świsłoczy and clerk of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. However, the marriage proved unsuccessful and she soon left her husband From 1807 to 1837 she was also closely associated with the French foreign minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.

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