Władysław Leon Sapieha Explained

Prince Władysław Leon Sapieha
Spouse:Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka
Spouse-Type:Spouse
Issue:Kazimierz Leon Sapieha
Leon Aleksander Sapieha
Józef Adam Sapieha
Aleksander Józefat Sapieha
Adam Zygmunt Sapieha
Władysław Sapieha
Andrzej Józef Sapieha
Stanisław Sapieha
Countess Anna Bielski
Princess Teresa Drucki-Lubecki
Full Name:Władysław Leon Adam Feliks Sapieha
House:Sapieha
House-Type:Noble family
Father:Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha
Mother:Princess Jadwiga Sanguszko
Birth Date:30 May 1853
Birth Place:Krasiczyn, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
Death Place:Lwów, Republic of Poland
Place Of Burial:Krasiczyn

Prince Władysław Leon Adam Feliks Sapieha (30 May 1853 – 29 April 1920) was a Polish prince (Kniaź) and magnate, member of the Sapieha family (Kodeński line), landowner, social activist, deputy to the Diet of Galicia and Reichsrat.

Władysław Leon was the oldest son of Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha and Princess Jadwiga Klementyna Sanguszko. He had two sisters and four brothers, among them cardinal Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha. From 1864 to 1871, Leon attended gymnasium, then studied law in Berlin and later in Heidelberg, and graduated in Lviv in 1876. After graduating, he spent one year serving in army. In 1877, he took a position as a clerk but resigned from the job after his brother Leon Paweł persuaded him to manage the family estate in Krasiczyn. In 1883, he was elected deputy to the Diet of Galicia where he was member of the "Center" Parliamentary group along with Prince Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski. As a deputy, he was a member of the parliamentary commissions of budget, mining, lustration and taxes. He did not apply for re-election in 1889. In 1883, he became a member of the Economic Society of Galicia. In 1908, he was again elected to the Diet of Galicia. In 1910, he donated archives collected in Krasiczyn to Ossolineum. In 1915, he became a member of the life-saving committee for war-stricken people, established by his brother Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha. He also contributed to running the Agricultural Academy in Dublany. From 1907 he was a member of the House of Lords of Austria-Hungary.[1]

On 30 July 1881, in Cracow, he married Countess Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka, daughter of Count Kazimierz Wojciech Potulicki and Countess Maria Zamoyska. Władysław Leon and Elżbieta Konstancja had ten children:[2]

Władysław Leon died on 29 April 1920 in Lviv and was buried in Krasiczyn. He is great-great-grandfather of Queen Mathilde of the Belgians.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. Austrian Academy of Sciences. 22 March 2018 . http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl?frames=yes . Sapieha, Władysław Leon Fürst (1853–1920), Landwirt.
  2. http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/sejmwielki?m=NG&t=PN&n=W%B3adys%B3aw+Leon+Adam+Sapieha M.J. Miankowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego: Władysław Leon Sapieha
  3. http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/sejmwielki?p=mathilde;n=d+udekem+d+acoz M.J. Miankowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego: Mathilde Marie Christine d'Udekem d'Acoz