Potocki, Joachim Karol

Representative of the largest and richest Polish magnate family Potocki coat of arms Pilyava . The eldest son of Kashtelan Bratslavsky Jan Potocki (d. 1744 ) and Constance Sobieska, brother of the governor of Belz and Major General of the Polish Army Theodor Potocki ( 1738 - 1812 ).

In 1755, Joachim Karol Potocki received the patent of a major general , in 1758 he became the chief of the Dragoon regiment.

In 1763 - 1780, he served as the subordinate Great Lithuanian, later became the chief of the horse regiment named after Queen Jadwiga and the regimentary of the Barsky Confederation.

He participated in the pre-bar confederation in Warsaw and Lviv , then became the leaders of the uprising. In 1768, Joachim Karol Potocki became one of the founders and organizers of the Bara Confederation. He was elected a marshal of several southeast voivodships. In the battle of Podgaitsy, the great Lithuanian subordinate Joachim Potocki was defeated by the Russians, was deprived of his estates and fled to Moldova. Conflicted with another leader of the confederation, the Warez Warden Jozef Pulawski . In 1770, Jan Karol Potocki, together with Jan Klemens Branicki, announced a manifesto on the detronization of Stanislav Poniatowski and non-role-playing in Poland. In 1779 he returned to his homeland and was pardoned.

In 1763 he became a holder of the Order of the White Eagle.

In May 1791, Joachim Karol Potocki died.

Thanks to his first marriage, he acquired estates in the Brest , Pinsk and Volkovysk counties of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Joachim Karol Potocki was twice married. In 1752, he married Teresa Sapieha, the daughter of a subcarbium of the outgoing Lithuanian Józef František Sapieha (1679-1744) and Kristina Branicka (d. 1761 ). Children:

• Kristina Pototskaya (d. 1789 ), wife of Count Peter Pototsky ( 1745 - 1829 )
• John Potocki, wife of the headman of the Kanev Earl Jan Potocki

In 1786, after the death of his first wife, he remarried to Anna Salome Grokholskaya, daughter of the governor of Bratslav Martin Grokholsky ( 1727 - 1807 ) and Cecilia Holoneva. In the second marriage had no children.

• HP Kosk, Generalicja polska t. 2, Oficyna Wydawnicza "Ajaks", Pruszków 2001.