Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (* 1730, † 1819 in Biała Cerkiew ) was a Polish Adjutant General and Great Hetman of the Polish crown. He is also known under the name Franz Xaver Graf Branicki.

Life and work

Branicki, the simple noble family of the Korczak de Branicki belonging, 1761 went to St. Petersburg, there was a friend of Stanislaus Poniatowski, whom he saved the life, and was after his accession to the throne in 1764 Adjutant General and Krongroßjägermeister.

In Poland he fought a duel in 1766 with the writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova, both had fallen into an argument in attracting a singer. In the gun duel Branicki was severely wounded.

Ambitious and avaricious, he was in a treacherous Handel in favor of Russia and in 1767 joined the Confederacy of Radom, in order to combat the Bar.

Although the king gave him rich starosties and appointed him Krongroßfeldherrn, he joined himself from ambition with Potemkin against Stanislaus, opposed the new constitution and founded in 1792 with Potocki and Rzewuski the Targowica Confederation. Hated and cursed by his countrymen, he died in 1819 in Bila Tserkva in Kiev.

Family

The Grand Marshal of the Crown was married to Baroness Alexandra Engelhardt, a niece of Prince Potemkin. In March and April 1765, he remained as an envoy of the Polish king to negotiate with Frederick the Great in Berlin. At that time, there was a romance between Count Branicki and Teresa de Cocceji, the daughter of the famous dancer Barbara Campanini. The Liaison sprang a daughter of Frederick the Great allowed to take the name de Branicka.

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• Pole
• Noble
• Military person (Poland - Lithuania)
• Senator (Poland - Lithuania)
• Person in the Confederacy Targowica
• Support of the White Eagle Order
• Support of the St. Stanislausordens (Poland )
• Born in the 18th century
• Died in 1819
• Man