Adam Poniński (1732–1798)

Adam Poniński on a fragment of Jan Matejko's picture

Adam Poniński (1732 or 1733 – 23 July 1798 was a Polish nobleman, Prince, one of the leaders of the Radom Confederation of 1767, Grand Treasurer of the Crown (from 1775), member of the Permanent Council, he is remembered as the infamous Marshal of the Sejm (together with Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł) of the Partition Sejm (1773–1775). Considered by many contemporaries and historians a traitor, serving Russian ambassadors, he was stripped of all titles and exiled by the decree of the Great Sejm in 1790 but restored soon afterwards by the Confederation of Targowica.

His son, Adam Poniński, born in 1758, became a military general.

References

Coat of arms of the Poniński family

Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki, Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0-313-26007-9, Google Print, p.466

Grand Treasurers of the Crown (Podskarbi wielki koronny)

Arnold Świętosław Wojsław Piotr Dymitr of Goraj Dzierzek Łopaciński Henryk z Rogowa Jan de Kozcow Tomasz Nowek Piotr Mediolański Henryk z Rogowa Mikołaj Hinczowicz z Kazimierza Andrzej z Lublina Jan Hincza z Rogowa Jakub z Dębna Jan Rzeszowski Paweł Jasieński Piotr Kurozwęcki Jakub Szyłodwiecki Andrzej Kościelecki Mikołaj Szydlowiecki Jan Spytek Tarnowski Warzyniec Spytek Jordan Stanisław Spytek Tarnowski Walenty Dembiński Stanisław Sobek z Sulowa Hieronim Bużeński Jakub Rokossowski Jan Dulski Jan Firlej Baltazar Stanisławski Stanisław Wawrzycki Mikołaj Daniłowicz Hermolanus Lizęga Jan Mikołaj Daniłowicz Bogusław Leszczyński Jan Kazimierz Krasiński Jan Andrzej Morsztyn Marcin Zamoyski Marek Matczyński Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski Rafał Leszczyński Franciszek Maksymilian Ossoliński Jan Kanty Moszyński Jan Ansgary Czapski Maciej Grabowski Jan Odrowąż Sedlnicki Teodor Wessel Adam Poniński Roch Kossowski

See also Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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