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Leszczyński
Polish noble family and royal house
The House of Leszczyński (lesh-CHIN-skee,[4]Polish:[lɛˈʂtʂɨj̃skʲi]ⓘ; plural: Leszczyńscy, feminine form: Leszczyńska) was a prominent Polishnoble family.
They were magnates in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and later became the royal family of Poland.
History
The Leszczyński family was a magnate family. In 1473, Rafał Leszczyński obtained from Emperor Frederick III the title of count.
This title was conferred on "the entire family".
Born in Lwów in , he was the son of Rafał Leszczyński, voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, and Anna Katarzyna Jabłonowska.The last representative of the main family, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later Duke of Lorraine, died in 1766.
The family name derives from Leszczyna, now a suburb of Leszno, Greater Poland.
The Leszczyński family obtained the title of count of Leszno in the Holy Roman Empire. The family had its greatest importance in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when they were ardent supporters of Calvinism and turned their estates