Princess Anna Jabłonowski Leszczyńska -9th Cousin

 

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Repinski-Dulek Family Tree

September 19, 2022

 

Princess Anna Jabłonowski Leszczyńska (1660–1727)

Who Do We Think We Are?

Continuing my family history research, I decided to climb the Repinski-Dulek tree today and found a rather neat relative that I and my polish kin share via my grandmother Evlyn Dulek Repinski.

Princess Anna Jabłonowski Leszcynski would be a 9th Cousin (10 times removed) from myself and a 7th cousin (8 times removed) from my grandmother and a 6th cousin (7 times removed) from my great grandfather John Dulek.

A brief Life Sketch of my noted famous polish cousin that lived from the middle of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th Century and was the mother of a Polish King and an ancestress of French Royalty.

What a life she must have lived......

Life Sketch of Princess Anna

Princess Anna Jablonowski  Leszcynski (9th Cousin)

 

Anna Leszczyńska née Jabłonowska (1660–1727) was a Polish noblewoman, born into the House of Jablonowski and the mother of King of Poland Stanislaus I Leszczyński.^[1]

King Stanislaus I Leszcynski of Poland (10th Cousin)

 

 

She was the daughter of Hetman Prince Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski and Marianna Kazanowska. 

 

Prince Stanislaw Jan Jablonowski

In 1676, she married the Grand Treasurer Rafał Leszczyński, son of Deputy Chancellor Bogusław Leszczyński.

Her son Stanisław Leszczyński became King of Poland with Swedish support in 1704 and reigned until 1709. During his first reign her brother Jan served as Crown Chancellor.

Anna Leszczyńska reportedly lived with her son and his family in his exile after the deposition of 1709, when he moved from Poland to Sweden, in 1714 to Zweibrücken in Germany, and finally, in 1718, to France. 

Her relationship with Stanislaw was reportedly not happy at this point, as she felt disappointment over the loss of his royal position and exile and blamed this on the actions of Stanislaw, in which she was joined by her daughter-in-law Catherine Opalińska.^[2]

Through her son she was the grandmother of Maria Leszczyńska, who became queen of France by marriage to Louis XV in 1725, and therefore the great-great-grandmother of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X.^[3]

^{Anna Died - August 29, 1727 (aged 66–67) in Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France} 

Lineage from myself to Anna

 Anna Jabłonowska is your 9th cousin 10 times removed

 

 

Sources and Further Reading

https://www.geni.com/people/Ksi%C4%99%C5%BCna-Anna-Leszczy%C5%84ska/6000000002097595696?through=6000000002027240229#/tab/media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jan_Jab%C5%82onowski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Leszczy%C5%84ska_(1660%E2%80%931727)

https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.66391/2015.66391.Parincesses-Ladies-Amp-Salonnieres-The-Reign-Of-Louis-Xv_djvu.txt

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jab%C5%82onowska-6

The Kashubian Exodus-The 1st Polish Settlers of North America-

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Repinski Family Tree History
Repinski-Dulak/Dulek Line
My Kashubian Ancestors

My First Polish Settlers of North America 

"A Long Line of Kashubian Immigrant Ancestors" 

About a month ago I received a message from my cousin Shelby Repinski Ellison who just happened to be traveling abroad for work and she messaged me from Poland...the "Mother Land" of my dad's family.
To say I was a little jealous of her at this moment is just a bit of an understatement....

She asked if I knew of any of the areas where some of our family ancestors may have come from.
I have quite the list and I am sure that after sending numerous 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and more Great Grandparents and the places that they came from in Poland....she was probably saying "Oh why did I ask??" (inject big grin).

Some day I hope to make it to Poland and visit all of the places I have discovered in my research. I haven't talked to her since her return but I do hope that she got the opportunity to explore a bit.

As I was going through some of the family tree branches on my Repinski/Dulek side to find these towns for her, I decided to do a little more in depth research into one of the areas that quite a few of my ancestors came from.

I already knew from previous research that most of my dad's ancestry from his mother's Osowski side of the family and her mother's Kiedrowski side of the family all came from an area of Northwest Poland called "Kashubian Pomerania".
A distant cousin, Arthur Newkirk, who lives in North Carolina has helped me with this line by finding and adding some of my ancestors to my family tree on Geni.com which is where I have a tree connected to the "World Tree". The more ones line is filled in on the World Tree, the better one is able to connect to other relations through out the world and throughout history.

The more I dug into my family lines, the more I realised just how intimately KASHUBIA and POMERANIA are connected to my dad's family lines from both his father, Clarence Repinski and his mother Evelyn  Dulek Repinski starting in the late 1800s and establishing the bedrock of our family as we know it today.

As one write up in an article on the first settlers says very well:

The hopes and dreams of these immigrants began to be realized as they moved into the 1880’s. 
Their simple log homes became part of larger and more comfortable white frame houses. Their children moved to their own farms or to the city for work or to set up a business. 
Seven more Polish Catholic parishes were organized. 
Even though the "chain migration” from the Kaszuby region had begun to subside by the mid-1880’s, immigrants from the Austrian and Russian partitions of Poland began to find their way to Portage County - usually after a short stay in Chicago or Milwaukee while deciding where to locate. 
Perhaps they were drawn to this area by the large, successful Polish community with its Polish Catholic Churches which had its beginning almost 150 years ago.

Some of those immigrants to North America and in particular the ones that settled in Portage County Wisconsin that are my ancestors have the following surnames: Repinski, Dulek, Osowski, Riemer, Kowalski, Cyzewski, Kosobucki, Mrocki, Zblewski, Kiedrowski, Kynter, Polzcynski, Janta, Wosocki,


Come learn about Kashubia and Pomerania and those Kashubian Poles who emigrated away from their homeland to make new lives for themselves...a very large part of the ancestry of my Repinski/ Dulek family history...

Jacqueline Kennedy (1st Lady)-13th Cousin

Family Tree History & Research
Deitz-Pope Family Line
Smith/Angell Branch
New Discovery: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy-13th Cousin


Today while researching one of my ancestral branches in my dad's family tree and then my mom's family tree I discovered a line that connects both of my family lines to one of the most popular 1st ladies that ever lived.

I was looking into my polish family lines and first discovered that one of my lines from my dad's Repinski side of my ancestry goes back to the Polish-Lithuanian noble Radziwill line in the 1600s.

From that line I drilled down through the centuries and discovered that I had a 13th cousin thrice removed named Antoni Stanislaw Albert Radziwill.

Read on for my discovery....

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein- 15th Cousin

Family History Research 

Feb 1st, 2018

Our Noble and Royal Ancestors

Repinski-Dulek Family Line

Another discovery a few days ago while researching a number of my mother's family lines back to Europe gave me quite a surprise...


A 15th cousin from my father's (Maurice Joseph Repinski) family line through his mother, Evelyn Dulek Repinski.
...And a Royal cousin at that!!

Introduction

This particular line I knew of, but didn't know of this branch until this last week.
A line that has nobility and royalty going up and down everywhere it seems...

My Grandmother Evelyn Dulek Repinski and her Noble Nalecz Ancestral Branch

From what I have been able to discover, it seems that my paternal grandmother, Evelyn Dulek Repinski descends from a line of "Szlachta" that goes back from her father's mother's line and back to her 6th Great Grandmother (my 8th Great Grandmother), a woman named Anna Katarzyna Pradzinska Gostomska H Nalecz.

Her maiden name being "Gostomska H Nalecz". 

In Poland at this time, the maiden name was given after the married name and often that maiden name is a conglomeration of two family surnames.

I started researching the reasoning for naming system and what I have found is that the part of her surname that is Nalecz, is the "Szlachta" or "Clan" name of a number of noble polish family lines. 

The Nalecz Coat of Arms

The Nalecz Coat of Arms explained

Szlachta

The Polish term "szlachta" designated the formalized, hereditary noble class of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which constituted the nation itself, and ruled without competition.

In official Latin documents of the old Commonwealth, hereditary szlachta are referred to as "nobilitas" and are indeed the equivalent in legal status of the English nobility.

Today the word szlachta in the Polish language simply translates to "nobility". In its broadest meaning, it can also denote some non-hereditary honorary knighthoods granted today by some European monarchs. Occasionally, 19th-century non-noble landowners were referred to as szlachta by courtesy or error, when they owned manorial estates though they were not noble by birth. In the narrow sense, szlachta denotes the old-Commonwealth nobility.

In the past, a certain misconception sometimes led to the mistranslation of "szlachta" as "gentry" rather than "nobility".

This mistaken practice began due to the economic status of some szlachta members being inferior  to that of the nobility in other European countries.

 The szlachta included those almost rich and powerful enough to be magnates down to rascals with a noble lineage, no land, no castle, no money, no village, and no peasants.

At least 60,000 families belonged to the nobility, however, only about 100 were wealthy, all the rest were poor.

As some szlachta were poorer than some non-noble gentry, some particularly impoverished szlachta were forced to become tenants of the wealthier gentry. In doing so, however, these szlachtaretained all their constitutional prerogatives, as it was not wealth or lifestyle (obtainable by the gentry), but hereditary juridical status, that determined nobility.

An individual nobleman was called a "szlachcic", and a noblewoman a "szlachcianka".
Definition of Sclachta

Our Branch to the Nalecz/ Sxlachta Noble Line of Poles

Brief Bio of My 8th Great Grandmother, Anna Katarzyna Pradzinska Gostomska H Nalecz:

Gender: Female
Birth: circa 1680
Death: November 9, 1739 (55-63)
Łąkie?, Pomorskie, Poland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jan Jerzy Babka Gostomski h. Nałęcz, Sr. and Anna Katarzyna Babka Gostomska
Wife of Jakub Aubracht Prądziński
Mother of Elżbieta Depka Prądzińska; Anna Pałubicka and Józef Aubracht Prądziński
Sister of Jan Jerzy Babka Gostomski Jr.; Julianna Katarzyna Prądzińska and Konstancja Trzebiatowska

I do not know much more about her than the above. I do know that her father and going back 3 further generations carry the Nalecz Szlachta Coat of Arms/ Clan Surname though (See pedigree below).

 It is from my 13th great grandfather in this line, Dobrogost Gostomski, and his brother that our lines diverge, with one brother's line going to Prince Hans and the other brother's line descending to myself and my family through our other ancestors.

**And for those that know my father and his brothers and sisters, let me know if anyone sees in the photo of Hans below, a resemblance to any of them.  I do!!

The Line of Family Divergence

(Two branches of the same branch divide)

Our Mutual Ancestors

Dobrogost (alias Anzelm) Głowacz z Pawłowic (z Pawlowic vel Gostomski).
*Dobrogost was my 14th Great Grandfather and Cousin Hans' 14th Great Grandfather as well.

A little bit about 14th Great Grandfather, Dobrogost:
Born: early 1400s

Place: Sandomierz, Poland
Died: around 1466 

Place: Torun, Poland

Parents: Jan "Głowacz" Leżeński and Katarzyna Leżeńska
Jan and Katarzyna (our 15th Great Grandparents) had the following children:
1.Hieronim Dogrobost Z Pawlowic Vel Gostomski(our 13th Great Grandfather).

2.Jakub Dobrogost Z Pawlowic Vel Gostomski (Han's 13th Great Grandfather).

Our mutual 14th Great Grandfather, Dogrobost, was the Ensign of Sandomierz, starost of Lublin, voivode of Sieradz, and one of the founders of the city of Głowaczów.

In 1445, as a knight of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Witold Kiejstutowicz, he fought the Teutonic Knights at Chojnice.

He died 1466 staying in Toruń during peace negotiations with the Teutonic Knights, of the plague.

Our Royal Cousin

Johannes Adam II Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d’Aviano Pius von Liechtenstein, Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein 

15th cousin.

Biography of Hans Adam of Liechtenstein

Pedigree From Myself to Prince Hans

John Joseph Repinski

(Me)

→ Maurice Joseph Repinski

 My Father 

→ Evelyn M. Repinski

His Mother

(My Grandmother)

 →John Sr. S. Dulek

her father 

(My Great Grandfather)

→ Antoinette Dulek

his mother 

(My 2nd Great Grandmother)

→ Magdalena Marianna Ossowska

her mother 

(My 3rd Great Grandmother)

→ Jan Antoni Kiedrowski

her father 

(My 4th Great Grandfather)

→ Marianna Kiedrowska

his mother 

(My 5th Great Grandmother)

→ Joanna Kręcka

her mother

(My 6th Great Grandmother)

→ Józef Aubracht Prądziński

her father 

(My 7th Great Grandfather

→ Anna Katarzyna Aubracht Prądzińska

his mother 

(My 8th Great Grandmother)

→ Jan Jerzy Babka Gostomski h. Nałęcz, Sr.

her father 

(My 9th Great Grandfather)

→ Krzysztof Babka Gostomski h. Nałęcz, Jr.

his father 

(My 10th Great Grandfather)

→ Krzysztof Babka Gostomski h. Nałęcz, Sr.

his father 

(My 11th Great Grandfather)

→ Walenty Gostomski h. Nałęcz

his father 

(My 12th Great Grandfather)

→ Dobrogost Gostomski

his father 

(My 13th Great Grandfather)

↘︎

→ Jakub Dobrogost z Pawlowic vel Gostomski

his brother 

(My 12th Great Uncle)

→ Anzelm Gostomski

his son 

(1st cousin 14 times removed)

→ Dorota Tarło

his daughter 

(2nd cousin 13 times removed)

→ Anna Chodkiewicz

her daughter 

(3rd cousin 12 times removed)

→ Barbara Kopeć

her daughter

(4th cousin 11 times removed)

→ Anna Barbara Sapieha

her daughter 

(5th cousin 10 times removed)

→ Konstancija Sanguškienė

her daughter 

(6th cousin 9 times removed)

→ Prince Paweł Karol Sanguszko h. Pogoń Litewska

her son 

(7th Cousin 8 times removed)

→ Anna Jabłonowska

his daughter 

(8th cousin 7 times removed)

→ Dorota Barbara Jabłonowska h. Prus (III)

her daughter

(9th Cousin 6 times removed)

→ Józefina Maria Czartoryska

her daughter

(10th cousin 5 times removed)

→ Countess Julie Potocka

her daughter 

(11th Cousin 4 times removed)

→ Alfred Alois, Prinz von Liechtenstein

her son 

(12th Cousin 3 times removed)

→ Alois, Prinz von und zu Liechtenstein

his son 

(my 13th cousin 2 times removed)

→ Franz Joseph II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignaz Benediktus Gerhardus Majella von Liechtenstein, Fürst von und zu Lichtenstein

his son 

(My 14th Cousin once removed)

→ Johannes Adam II Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d’Aviano Pius von Liechtenstein, Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein

his son

Johannes Adam II Von Liechtenstein is John Repinski's 15th Cousin

I hope to meet my cousin someday and now that I know we have kin in the little principality of Liechtenstein, I will surly be putting that little mountain country on my bucket list of places to visit someday.

Warm Regards

The Family Historian

John