August Aleksander Czartoryski
Template:Short description Template:Infobox noble Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski (9 November 1697, WarsawTemplate:Snd4 April 1782, Warsaw) was a Polish szlachcic (nobleman) and magnate.
Life
August became major-general of the Polish Army in 1729, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in 1731, general starost of Podolia in 1750–1758, and a Knight of Malta. He was starost of Warsaw, Kościerzyna, Lubochnia, Kałusz, Latowicz, Lucyn, Wąwolnica, Kupiski and Pieniań.
He supported Stanisław Leszczyński during the War of the Polish Succession. During the reign of August III, with his brother Michał, Czartoryski was a leader of the "Familia." During the interregnum of 1763–64, he strove for the Polish crown for himself, later for his son Adam Kazimierz. From 1764 to 1766, he was marshal of the General Confederation (Template:Langx); from 1764, a commander for the Crown. He was a supporter of political reforms during the Republic, and an opponent of the Radom Confederation.
Awards
- Knight of the White Eagle Order, awarded 23 July 1731
- Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus
- Order of Saint Andrzej
Ancestry
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| Predecessor Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski |
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Ruthenian Voivode 1731–1782 |
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Successor Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki |
- 1697 births
- 1782 deaths
- 17th-century Polish nobility
- 18th-century Polish nobility
- Austrian military personnel
- Czartoryski family
- Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Nobility from Warsaw
- People from Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
- Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Voivodes of the Ruthenian Voivodeship