Anna Leszczyńska (1699–1717)

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Anna Leszczyńska

Portrait by Johan Starbus, 1712

Born

25 May 1699
Poland

Died

20 June 1717 (aged 18)
Mandelbachtal, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Palatine Zweibrücken

Names
Polish: Marianna Leszczyńska

House

Leszczyński

Father

Stanisław Leszczyński

Mother

Katarzyna Opalińska

Marianna "Anna" Leszczyńska (25 May 1699 – 20 June 1717) was the eldest child of Stanisław Leszczyński and Catherine Opalińska. Her sister, Maria Leszczyńska, became Queen of France in 1725.

Life

Childhood

Marianna Leszczyńska was born on 25 May 1699 in Poland, as the eldest child of Stanisław Leszczyński and Catherine Opalińska. Marianna was named after her paternal grandmother, Anna Jabłonowska, and was often called “Anna”.

Her only sister, Maria Leszczyńska, was born four years later in 1703 and was later crowned Queen of France as the consort of Louis XV. Between Stanisław's two daughters, Marianna seems to have been the favourite.^[1] She, reportedly, received a good education.

Death

Marianna died of pneumonia at the age of 18 in the district of Mandelbachtal in Saarpfalz-Kreis. She is buried in Gräfinthal cloister. Although her father called many doctors to her bedside, they likely accelerated her death by applying multiple purges and bleeding.^[2]

Her death devastated the Leszczyński family, especially her father, whom asked his second daughter Maria to never pronounce the name of Anna before him again. Maria followed his instructions so carefully, even in front of her husband, that years later he was surprised to learn that she had a sister.^[3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anna Leszczyńska (1699–1717)^[4]

16. Rafał Leszczyński

8. Bogusław Leszczyński

17. Anna Radzimińska

4. Rafał Leszczyński

18. Kaspar von Dönhoff

9. Joanna Katarzyna Radziwiłł

19. Anna Aleksandra Koniecpolska

2. Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland

20. Jan Jabłonowski

10. Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski

21. Anna Ostroróg

5. Anna Jabłonowska

22. Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski

11. Marianna Kazanowska

23. Anna Potocka

1. Anna Leszczyńska −

24. Piotr Opaliński

12. Krzysztof Opaliński

25. Zofia Kostka

6. Jan Karol Opaliński

26. Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski

13. Teresa Konstancja Czarnkowska

27. Katarzyna Leszczyńska

3. Katarzyna Opalinska

28. Kazimierz Franciszek Czarnkowski

14. Adam Uriel Czarnkowski

29. Konstancja Lubomirska

7. Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska

30. Remigian Zaleski

15. Teresa Zaleska

31. Anna Miełżyńska

References

^ Sarah Coffin, Bodo Hofstetter Portrait Miniatures in Enamel : The Gilbert Collection, p. 87, Philip Wilson, London 2000.
^ André Rossinot, Emmanuel Haymann, Stanislas, le roi philosophe, p. 93, Michel Lafon, Paris 2004.
^ Bożena Krzywobłocka, Wielkopolskie damy (Great Polish Ladies), p. 123, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Poznan 1986.
^ Żychliński, Teodor (1882). Złota księga szlachty polskiéj: Rocznik IVty (in Polish). Jarosław Leitgeber. p. 1. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

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