Anna Leszczyńska (1699–1717)

Marianna "Anna" Leszczyńska (Trzebnica, Poland, 25 May 1699 – 20 June 1717 in Palatine Zweibrücken, Germany), was a Polish noblewoman from the Leszczyński family.[1]

Anna Leszczyńska
Portrait of Anna Leszczyńska by Johan Starbus, 1712.
Born(1699-05-25)25 May 1699
Poland
Died20 June 1717(1717-06-20) (aged 18)
Mandelbachtal, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Palatine Zweibrücken
Full name
Polish: Marianna Leszczyńska
HouseLeszczyński
FatherStanisław Leszczyński
MotherKatarzyna Opalińska

Biography

Anna was the eldest daughter of Stanisław I Leszczyński (who became King of Poland in 1704 and later Duke of Lorraine) and his wife, born Countess Catherine Opalińska. Anna was named after her paternal grandmother, born Princess Anna Jabłonowska.[2]

Her only sister, Maria Leszczyńska, was born four years later in 1703 and later became Queen of France as the wife of Louis XV in 1725. Between his two daughters, Anna seems to have been the favorite of King Stanisław.[3] She received a good education.

Anna died of pneumonia at eighteen in the district of Mandelbachtal in Saarpfalz-Kreis and 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.[4]

Her death devastated the Leszczyński family, especially her father. King Stanisław who 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 King Louis XV, that years later he was surprised to learn that she had a sister.[5]

Ancestry


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References
  1. Edmund Cieślak, Stanisław Leszczyński, pp. 45-46, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Warsaw 1994.
  2. "Anne Leszczynska", Wikipédia (in French), 2019-04-21, retrieved 2019-06-20
  3. Sarah Coffin, Bodo Hofstetter Portrait Miniatures in Enamel : The Gilbert Collection, p. 87, Philip Wilson, London 2000.
  4. André Rossinot, Emmanuel Haymann, Stanislas, le roi philosophe, p. 93, Michel Lafon, Paris 2004.
  5. Bożena Krzywobłocka, Wielkopolskie damy (Great Polish Ladies), p. 123, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Poznan 1986.
  6. Żychliński, Teodor (1882). Złota księga szlachty polskiéj: Rocznik IVty (in Polish). Jarosław Leitgeber. p. 1. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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