Jan Klemens Branicki

Count Jan Klemens von Branicki ( pron. - itzki ) (from the magnates Bad Gryf; * 1689, † October 9, 1771 in Białystok ) was a hetman of the Polish crown.

Life and work

He served in his youth in the French army, came back to Poland in 1715 and belonged to the Confederacy, the August II 1716 forced to dismiss the Saxon troops. From August III. appointed Star East, Great Hetman of the Crown, Castellan of Krakow and first secular senator, he was one after his death in 1763 to the Republican Party and should himself be king, but had to flee from the support of Russia and Prussia monarchical party of Czartoryski, whereupon he is in Hungary stayed until he was allowed to return in 1765 under King Stanislaus II, his brother in law. 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 Barberina Campanini. The Liaison sprang a daughter of Frederick the Great allowed to take the name de Branicka. From this daughter Anna Selma de Branicka, comes the Berlin branch of the de Branicki from which renounced in the late 19th century to the nobility, because the Polish and Lithuanian nobility was suppressed and which also includes the German singer and presenter Jennah Karthes de Branicka heard.