Stanisław Ledóchowski

Stanislaw Ledochowski (* 1666, † 1725) was a Polish statesman. It was in 1701 Marshal of the Royal Tribunal, 1715-1716 Marshal of the Confederacy of Tarnogród, 1717 Marshal of the Sejm of the dumb Sejm from 1717 and from 1723 voivode of Volhynia, from the noble Ledóchowskis.

Life

The laying of the Saxon army to Poland by King August II (he was Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in personal union ) called in 1713 produced the protests of the Polish nobility, the 1715 by current plans for a coup of the King ( call for the inclusion of Saxon troops was exacerbated in the Polish Kronarmee ). On November 26, 1715 Stanislaw Ledochowski was elected Marshal of the anti -Saxon confederation of Tarnogród and quickly gained the support of the nobility. The Russian Minister Grzegorz Fiodorowicz Dolgoruky even said that Ledochowski II would have a good chance on the Polish throne in the event of a dethronement of August. Within a short time he put on a Konföderationsarmee in imposing on the Saxon troops a debilitating guerrilla war. However, he made ​​the mistake of asking for the mediation of Russia between the Confederates and the King. The Tsar benefited from this intermediary role, but went into the negotiations of Gdansk also to the interests of the king, so that the opinion of the Confederacy fell over again, while Tsar and King insisted on the previous results. Consequently Ledóchowski began anti-Russian diplomatic actions and tried the help of Austria, the Ottoman Empire or the Krimkhanats to obtain. The failure of these efforts and the place at the request of Augustus II invasion of Russian troops in the second half of August 1716 caused Ledóchowski to a renewed mobilization and negotiations with the king to preserve Poland of a new war. Finally, an agreement was signed on November 3, 1716 and he was Marshal of the Senate, which should put an end to the Confederacy. On February 1, 1717, he stopped in front of the mute Sejm a famous speech: In the name of the "true sons of the white eagle ," he vowed loyalty to the king, but no one else gave the word to avoid a discussion. He closed the Sejm, his hope Expressing that Poland find again the well deserved peace. In 1718 he demanded the Sejm the withdrawal of Russian troops ( which was finally realized in 1720 ) and the conclusion of an alliance with Austria.