Cezary Plater

Cezary Augustyn Plater (5 September 1810 – 9 February 1869) was a participant in the November Uprising and Polish émigré activist. He was brother of Władysław Plater and cousin of Emilia Plater.

Biography November Uprising He was the son of Kazimierz Plater, owner of the Dusiaty estate, and Eleonora Apolinara née Żaba. He completed his education in Vilnius and was studying in Berlin when he learned about the outbreak of the November Uprising. Together, they had five children: Ludwik Kazimierz, Maria, Jadwiga Stefania, Kazimierz, and Józef. The two youngest sons did not reach adulthood. The daughters, Maria and Jadwiga Stefania, married into prominent princely families, respectively to Stanisław Światopełk-Czetwertyński and Karol Wilhelm Radziwiłł.

On May 2, 1859, Plater remarried Julia Bobrinska, who came from a Russian noble family founded by Julia's grandfather, Aleksey Bobrinsky, the natural son of Count Grigory Orlov and Empress Consort Catherine of Russia (later Empress Catherine II). Julia's father was Pavel Bobrinsky, and her mother was Julia Bielińska, daughter of the Polish magnate , who was appointed by the Russians as the marshal of the Grodno Sejm that sealed the Second Partition of Poland. Julia was previously married to Count Waldemar Jezierski, who died in 1855, and with whom she had a son, Aleksander. From his second marriage, Cezary Plater had two sons, Cezary and Stanisław, who inherited estates in Greater Poland.