Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska
Mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland
About Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska
Lived 1660 – 1701 (aged 41). Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska was a Polish.
Sofia Anna Czarnkowska (also called Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska or Catherine-Sophie-Anne Czarnkowska) (12 March 1660 – 2 December 1701) was a Polish noblewoman, known as the maternal grandmother of the queen of France, Marie Leszczyńska.
Life She was the daughter of and Teresa Zaleska. She married Jan Karol Opaliński on 4 December 1678. They had the children Maria (August 1679 – October 1679), Catherine (Katarzyna) Opalińska, Queen of Poland (1680–1743), a stillborn child (1681), and Stanislas (1682–1682). She became the grandmother of Marie Leszczyńska (who would be Queen Consort of France, married to Louis XV) and Anna Leszczyńska.
She died on 8 December 1701 from pneumonia aged 41, at Breslau (today Wrocław).
Legacy A monument was erected in 1748 in the church of Sieraków. The crypt in a nearby castle contains the sarcophagus of the Opaliński family.
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Who was Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska?
Mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland (1660-1701)
When was Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska born?
Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska was born on 12 March 1660 in Poznań.
When did Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska die?
Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska died on 12 December 1701 in Wrocław.
What nationality was Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska?
Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska was Polish.
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