Witold Leon Czartoryski should not be confused with Witold Czartoryski.
Witold Leon Czartoryski | |
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Spouse: | Jadwiga Dzieduszycka |
Spouse-Type: | Consort |
Noble Family: | Czartoryski |
Father: | Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski |
Mother: | Maria Joanna Czermak |
Birth Date: | 10 February 1864 |
Birth Place: | Weinhaus, near Vienna |
Death Place: | Maków Podhalański, Poland |
Prince Witold Leon Karol Adam Jarosław Jerzy Czartoryski (10 February 1864 – 6 September 1945) was a Polish noble (szlachcic) and landowner. He served as the general commissar of Galicia and Lodomeria from the end of Russian occupation in 1917 to full incorporation as part of Poland on 1 November 1918. He was a hereditary member of the Austrian House of Lords (Herrenhaus) from 1908 and an elected Senator of the Polish Republic (1922–28)
Witold became owner of Pełkinie, Wiązownica, Konarzewo, Byliny estates in Poland and Weinhaus in Vienna.[1]
Witold was a well-known horse racing enthusiast. He set up a world-renowned hot bloods stud in Pełkinie, which bred the remarkable Arabian horses Czubuthan,[2] Babolna, Ba-Ida, Kasmira and Aeniza.[3]
He was married to Countess Jadwiga Dzieduszycka hr. Sas daughter of Count Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki, married on 21 February 1889 in Lwów. They had twelve children together, including: