Branicki (Gryf)

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The House of Branicki (plural: Braniccy) was a Polish szlachta (nobility) family. Since Polish adjectives have different forms for the genders, Branicka is the form for a female family member.

History

The Branicki family, also called the "

In 1726, he built the

Coat of arms

The Branicki family used the Gryf coat of arms.

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  Seal of Białystok used by Izabela Branicka after the death of Jan Klemens Branicki with the initials IB and the Griffin (beginning of the 18th century).
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  Coat of arms of Choroszcz with the Griffin and

  Ciołek

  of Izabela Branicka née Poniatowska
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  Former coat of arms of Choroszcz with the initials KB (Jan Klemens Branicki) and the Griffin

Notable members

• Łowczy, Burgrave of Kraków, married Katarzyna Kotwicz h. Kotwicz
  • Jan Branicki (c. 1568−1612), courtier, Łowczy of Kraków, castellan of Żarnów, married Anna Myszkowska h. Jastrzębiec
  • Jan Tarło
    h. Topór
    • podkomorzy of Kraków, married Anna Beata Wapowska h. Nieczuja
      • Court Marshall of the Crown, married Aleksandra Katarzyna Czarniecka h. Łodzia, daughter of Hetman Stefan Czarniecki
        h. Łodzia
        • Jan Kazimierz Sapieha
          h. Lis
          • Katarzyna Barbara Radziwiłł h. Trąby, granddaughter of Hetman Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, secondly Barbara Szembek and thirdly Princess Izabella Poniatowska h. Ciołek, sister of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
        • Konstancja Tekla Branicka (1658–1720), married to Johann Heinrich von Altenbockum, mother of Ursula Katharina Lubomirska
  • Anna Branicka (died 1639), married to Count Sebastian Lubomirski
    Jennah Karthes de Branicka, the German TV presenter and reporter of the Middle East with Lithuanian ancestors,
    • Zenona Branicka (born in Warsaw 1941), Protests of 1968, belongs among others, to the last actual descendants of the noble family "Branicki". The Branicki family has made its name in the Polish history.

Palaces

• 
  Renaissance manor house in Branice
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  Manor house in Choroszcz
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  Palace in Białystok
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  Branicki Palace in Białystok (1752)
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  Branicki Palace in Warsaw
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  Tykocin Castle
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  The "Hetman" tenement house in Kraków (with the Gryf arms on the top)
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  Ruins of the Kamieniec Castle near Korczyna

References