Roman Potocki

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{{Short description|Polish nobleman and politician}}
{{Infobox noble
| name = Count<br/>Roman Potocki
| title =
| image = Axentowicz - Portret Romana Potockiego.jpg|Axentowicz - Portret Romana Potockiego
| caption = ''Portrait of Count Potocki, by [[Teodor Axentowicz]]''
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|12|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Łańcut]], [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]], [[Austrian Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|9|24|1852|12|16|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Łańcut]], [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| noble family = [[Potocki]]
| father = [[Alfred Józef Potocki|Count Alfred Józef Potocki]]
| mother = [[Maria Klementyna Sanguszko|Princess Maria Klementyna Sanguszko]]
| issue = [[Count Alfred Antoni Potocki]]<br>[[Jerzy Józef Henryk Potocki|Count Jerzy Józef Henryk Potocki]]
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Countess Izabella Potocka<br>|21 November 1882|21 March 1883|reason=d}}
* {{marriage|Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł<br>|16 June 1885}}
}}
}}

'''[[Count]] Roman Potocki''' (16 December 1852 – 24 September 1915) was a Polish nobleman ([[szlachcic]]) and politician.

==Early life==
Count Roman was born on 16 December 1852 at [[Łańcut]] in the [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]], in what was then a part of the [[Austrian Empire]].<ref name="Lwowska1852">{{cite book |title=Gazeta Lwowska |date=1852 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uftamVhEVsQC |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=pl}}</ref> He was a son of Count [[Alfred Józef Potocki]], [[List of ministers-president of Austria|Minister-President of Austria]], and Princess [[Maria Klementyna Sanguszko]].<ref name="Wasylewski1959">{{cite book |last1=Wasylewski |first1=Stanisław |title=Czterdzieści lat powodzenia: przebieg mojego życia |date=1959 |publisher=Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich |page=455 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3dkeAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=pl}}</ref><ref name="Potocka1983">{{cite book |last1=Potocka |first1=Maria Małgorzata z Radziwiłłów Franciszkowa |title=Z moich wspomnień: pamiętnik |date=1983 |publisher=Katolicki Ośrodek Wydawniczy Veritas |pages=379, 482–483 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pS61AAAAIAAJ |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=pl}}</ref> His brother, [[:pl:Józef Mikołaj Potocki|Count Józef Mikołaj Potocki]], married his second wife's younger sister, Princess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł.<ref name="Potocka1983"/>

His paternal grandparents were Count [[Alfred Wojciech Potocki]] (the son of writer [[Jan Potocki]], best known for his famous novel "''[[The Manuscript Found in Saragossa]]''") and Princess [[Józefina Maria Czartoryska]]. His maternal grandparents were [[Roman Sanguszko|Prince Roman Sanguszko]] and [[Natalia Potocka|Countess Natalia Potocka]].

==Career==
He ran a family distillery, which is today known as [[Polmos Łańcut]]. Following his father's death, he became Third Lord [[Ordynat]] of [[Łańcut]] estates (which his father had inherited from his father).

He was a member of the Polish Circle in the Council of State for Austria-Hungary and served in the [[Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria]], was a member of Austrian [[Imperial Council (Austria)|Imperial Council]] from 1882 to 1890, and was a Member of the Austrian [[House of Lords (Austria)|House of Lords]] in 1890.

Awarded with the [[Order of the Golden Fleece]].

==Personal life==
On 21 November 1882, he married Countess Izabella Potocka in [[Warsaw]]. She was a daughter of Count Stanislaw [[Potocki family|Potocki]] and Princess Maria [[Sapieha|Sapieha-Kodenska]]. She died in Vienna on 21 March 1883.<ref name="Kings1973">{{cite book |title=The Book of Kings: The families |date=1973 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BF0RAQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 March 2022}}</ref>

On 16 June 1885, he married Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł (1861–1950) in [[Berlin]].<ref name="Wideryński1998">{{cite book |last1=Wideryński |first1=Mariusz |title=The Castle of Łańcut |date=1998 |publisher=MW |isbn=978-83-87758-01-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOXVAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> She was a daughter of Prince [[Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł]] and [[Marie de Castellane]] (the daughter of French aristocrats [[Henri de Castellane]] and [[Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord]]).<ref name="PrincessObit1915">{{cite news |title=PRINCESS RADZIWILL DIES IN GERMANY; Widow of Prince Anton Succumbs at Her Kleinitz Palace at 75 Years, ONCE LEADER IN SOCIETY Her Grandson Married Dorothy Deacon -- Visited on Birthdays by Emperor William. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/07/13/archives/prihobss-rziill-dibs-in-oeimany-widow-ofprince-anton-succumbs-at.html |access-date=7 March 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 July 1915}}</ref> Before their divorce, they had two children:

* Count [[Alfred Antoni Potocki]] (1886–1958), who married Izadora Narkiewicz-Jodko, a daughter of Zygmunt Narkiewicz-Jodko and Stanislawa Jordan-Walawska in 1956.<ref name="Blobaum2016">{{cite book |last1=Blobaum |first1=Robert E. |title=Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907 |date=1 November 2016 |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |isbn=978-1-5017-0534-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKWsDgAAQBAJ |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Topolski1993">{{cite book |last1=Topolski |first1=Jerzy |title=Dzieje Polski: 1795-1918 |date=1993 |publisher=Wydawn. Naukowe PWN |isbn=978-83-01-08891-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxYWAQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=pl}}</ref>
* Count [[Jerzy Józef Potocki]] (1889–1961), the [[Polish ambassador to the United States]] from 1936 to 1940 who married Susanita Yturregui in 1931.<ref name="1940Ambassador">{{cite news |title=POLISH AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON QUITS; Count Potocki Resigns After 4 Years--Gives No Reason |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/12/archives/polish-ambassador-to-washington-quits-count-potocki-resigns-after-4.html |access-date=9 March 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 November 1940}}</ref>

Count Potocki died in Łańcut on 24 September 1915, in what by then had become [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref>Genealogy of the Minchakievich Family in America, Chapter Two: Helen Irene Marynowska-Potocki Minchakievich, p. 38.</ref>

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