Józef Alfred Potocki

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Count

Józef Alfred Potocki
Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died12 September 1968(1968-09-12) (aged 73)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Noble familyPotocki
Spouse(s)
Princess Krystyna Maria Radziwiłł
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(m. 1930)​
IssueCountess Anna Potocki
Countess Dorota Potocki
Countess Isabella Potocki
Count Peter Potocki
FatherCount Józef Mikołaj Potocki
MotherPrincess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł

Count Józef Alfred Henryk Potocki (8 April 1895 – 12 September 1968) was a Polish nobleman and diplomat who served as the Polish government-in-exile's Ambassador to Spain.

Early life

Count Potocki was born on 8 April 1895 in

Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire (today in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine). He was the second (and youngest) son of Count Józef Mikołaj Potocki (1862–1922) and Princess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł (1874–1958). His elder brother was Count Roman Potocki (who married Princess Anna Maria Światopełk-Czetwertynska).[1]

His paternal grandparents were Count

General Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł and Marie de Castellane (daughter of French aristocrats Henri de Castellane and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord).[4]

He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford and a military school in Saint Petersburg.[1]

Career

In 1914, Potocki was active in the Sanitary Aid Committee in Warsaw and, from 1915 to 1917, he served as a soldier in the

Polish embassy in London. From 1922 to 1929, he served as an official of the Western Department of the Political and Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. From 1929 to 1932, he served as an adviser to the Embassy in London. In February 1934, he became deputy director of the Political Department before becoming head of the Western Department succeeding Józef Lipski (who became the Polish Ambassador to Nazi Germany).[1]

From 1939 to 1940, he served as the

Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile after 1945.[5] Potocki held the mission in Madrid until November 1955.[6]

Awards

He was awarded the Order of the Revival of Poland, the Commander's Cross of the French

Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[1]

Personal life

On 8 October 1930, Potocki married Princess Krystyna Maria Radziwiłł (b. 1908) in Warsaw. She was a daughter of Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, a Polish nobleman and politician, and Princess Anna Lubomirska.[7][8] His wife's brother, Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, married Caroline Lee Bouvier (sister to First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis).[9] Together, they were the parents of four children:[1]

  • Countess Anna Potocki (1931–2000), who died in Paris.[1]
  • Countess Dorota Potocki (b. 1935), who married Luis Arias y Carralón in 1965.[1] After his death in 1970, she married Carlos Mazzuchelli y López de Ceballos in 1987.[10]
  • Countess Isabella Potocki (b. 1937), who married Count Hubert d'Ornano, the owner of Sisley who was a son of Guillaume d'Ornano, a co-founder of Lancôme, in 1963.[11]
  • Count Peter Stanislav Jozef Potocki (b. 1940), who married Maria Teresa Rosa de Togores de Bejar, daughter of the Duke of Béjar, in 1969.[1]

Count Potocki died in Lausanne, Switzerland on 12 September 1968.[1]

Family estates

In 1913, his father received permission from the Royal Court to establish two

Peace of Riga (which ended the Polish–Soviet War
), the Potocki brothers did not receive the ordynats promised to them.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-900391-19-4
    . Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. ^ "HUNDREDS ATTEND GALA POLISH BALL; Leaders of Social, Diplomatic and Educational Circles in Throng at Annual Fete". The New York Times. 29 January 1938. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  3. ^ Wasylewski, Stanisław (1959). Czterdzieści lat powodzenia: przebieg mojego życia (in Polish). Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 455. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  4. ^ Potocka, Maria Małgorzata z Radziwiłłów Franciszkowa (1983). Z moich wspomnień: pamiętnik (in Polish). Katolicki Ośrodek Wydawniczy Veritas. pp. 379, 482–483. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ISBN 978-3-11-061063-5
    . Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  6. ISBN 978-0-674-58150-0
    . Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  7. ISBN 9780393324020
    . Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  8. ISBN 9781930205000
    . Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  9. ^ "PRINCE RADZIWILL BURIED IN POLAND". The New York Times. 8 October 1967. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  10. ISBN 978-83-85496-03-8
    . Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  11. ^ Weil, Jennifer (26 September 2015). "Hubert d'Ornano Dies at 89". WWD. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

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