Count Aleksander Stanisław Potocki (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi], 1778–1845) was a Polish noble, landowner and politician. He was the senator-castellan of the Polish Kingdom in 1824 and chamberlain of Napoleon I. He was awarded Order of the White Eagle on 24 May 1829.
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Biography
Youth and family
Born in Warsaw, he was the son of the third Prime Minister of Poland Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki and his wife Aleksandra Lubomirska. On 15 May 1805, in Vilnius, he married Anna Tyszkiewicz (with whom he had Augustus, Maurycy and Natalia Potocka). The unsuccessful marriage ended in divorce in 1821. In 1823 he entered into a marriage with Izabella Mostowska, with whom he had Stanisław Potocki. He divorced Izabella soon after the birth of the child. At the end of his life Potocki was involved in a romance with a widow, Aleksandra Stokowska, which he never married.
Politics and career
In 1802 was made a Knight of Malta. From 1805 he lived with his wife in the estate in the district of Wilanów, named in 1807 in honour of his daughter Natalia – Natolin (property several times rebuilt by Piotr Aigner, and after the divorce with his first wife in the years 1821–1845 under the supervision of Henryk Marconi).
