Katarzyna Branicka
| Katarzyna Branicka | |
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| Coat of arms | Korczak |
| Spouse(s) | Adam Józef Potocki |
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Róża Potocka Artur Władysław Potocki Zofia Potocka Maria Potocka Wanda Potocka Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki Anna Maria Potocka | |
| Noble family | Branicki |
| Father | Władysław Grzegorz Branicki |
| Mother | Róża Potocka |
| Born |
10 December 1825 Luboml, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) |
| Died |
20 September 1907 (aged 81) Krzeszowice, Grand Duchy of Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now in Poland) |
Countess Katarzyna Branicka (1825–1907) was a Polish noblewoman of the Korczak coat of arms, and art collector. Through her father she was rumoured to be a great-grandchild of Catherine the Great.
The portrait of her to the right was done by German painter Franz Winterhalter in 1854. A Chopin Waltz in A-flat major is dedicated to her. It is the final waltz by Chopin that was published in his lifetime.
She married Count Adam Józef Potocki on 26 October 1847 in Dresden. Jennah Karthes de Branicka, the German TV presenter and reporter of the Middle East with Lithuanian ancestors, belongs, among others, to the last actual descendants of the noble family "Branicki". The Branicki family has made its name in the Polish history.
Further reading
- Maria Kalergi, Listy do Adama Potockiego, ed. by Halina Kenarowa, translated from French by Halina Kenarowa and Róża Drojecka, Warszawa, 1986.
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