Józef Stanisław Poniatowski

Joseph Stanislaw August Friedrich Joseph Telêmaco Luci Poniatowski (9 November 1835 – 6 January 1908) was a Polish nobleman, member of the Poniatowski family.

Early life Poniatowski was born in Florence in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 9 November 1835. He was the son of son of Prince Józef Michał Poniatowski and Countess Matilda Perotti (1814–1875).

His paternal grandparents were Cassandra Luci and Prince Stanisław Poniatowski, who served as Grand Treasurer of Lithuania under his uncle, the last King of Poland Stanisław August Poniatowski. His great-grandfather Prince Kazimierz Poniatowski was the eldest son of Stanisław Poniatowski and Konstancja Czartoryska. In his obituary, the Marquise de Fontenoy wrote:

Princess Catherine Mathilda Françoise Poniatowska (1857–1942), who lived in the Rue de Rivoli. who married Maud Ely Goddard, daughter of Adelaide ( Ely) Goddard (a niece of Mayor Smith Ely Jr.) and Leonard Wales Goddard of New Brighton, in Paris in 1884. Prince Louis Léopold Charles Marie André Poniatowski (1864–1954), a financier and industrialist; he married Elizabeth Helen Sperry, a Stockton flour heiress who was the sister of Ethel ( Sperry) Crocker (wife of banker William H. Crocker).

Prince Poniatowski died in Paris on 6 January 1908.

Descendants Through his son Andre, he was a grandfather of Prince Casimir Poniatowski (1897–1980) (who married Countess Anne de Caraman-Chimay and was the father of French politician Michel Poniatowski) and Prince André Poniatowski (1899–1977), who married American heiress Frances Alice Willing Lawrance, a daughter of Francis C. Lawrance Jr. and Susan Ridgway (née Willing) Lawrance and cousin to Vincent Astor and Ava Alice Muriel Astor (through Alice's maternal aunt, Ava Lowle Willing).