Sobiesky, Konstantin Vladislav

Born in Warsaw , the capital of the Commonwealth . Konstantin Vladislav received a good education in accordance with the instructions drawn up by his father in 1685 . In October 1696, together with his elder brother Alexander, he was received by the French king Louis XIV the Great . At the audience was presented as Count Pomoryansky .

On January 19, 1698, Constantine, together with his brother Alexander, gave a ball in honor of the new King of the Commonwealth, Augustus II the Strong, who arrived in Warsaw .

In 1697, according to the division of his father’s inheritance, Konstantin Vladislav Sobieski received in possession Wilanow and Kazimirovsky Palace in Warsaw , as well as estates near Zholkva and Krekhov .

In 1698, Prince Konstantin Sobiesky participated in the battle with the Crimean Tatars near Podgaytsy . In October of that year, along with his brother Alexander, accompanied his mother during her trip to Italy . In November 1698, they were received by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg and his wife Eleanor Magdalena of Neuburg . In 1699 he participated in the adoption of the Kamenetz-Podolsky fortress from the Ottoman Turks.

In March 1700, Konstantin Vladislav Sobieski left for Rome , where in November he became a holder of the Order of St. Michael. In December, he received the Order of the Holy Spirit from the French ambassador. There was a scandal, the prince met local beauties, one of whom Maria Casimira accused of stealing her valuables.

During the Northern War (1700-1721) he supported the claims of his older brother Jakub Ludwik to the Polish royal throne. Konstantin Sobieski arrived in the city of Olawa in Silesia , from where he was going to enter Poland through Wroclaw . On February 27, 1704, when leaving Wroclaw, Princes Jakub and Konstantin Sobieski were arrested by soldiers of Augustus the Strong . The brothers were imprisoned, where they spent two years. After the conclusion of the Altranstedt peace between Augustus II the Strong and the Swedish king Charles XII, Jakub and Konstantin Sobieski were released from prison. Konstantin Sobieski left for Lower Silesia, where he entered into an affair with Ursula Lubomyrska, the mistress of Augustus the Strong . In the summer of 1708 he joined Stanislav Leschinsky in Royal Prussia .

On November 18, 1708, in Gdansk, he married Maria Joseph Wessel (1685-1762), the daughter of the headman of Ruzhany Stanislav Wessel. Elzbieta Seniavskaya proposed the candidacy of Konstantin Sobieski to the Polish throne instead of Augustus the Strong . In 1711, Prince Konstantin received in Yavorov the Russian Tsar Peter I Alekseevich . In 1712 and during the Tarnograd Confederation ( 1715 - 1716 ), Konstantin Sobieski nominated himself for the Polish royal throne, but could not achieve anything.

He lived in the city of Wroclaw in Austrian Silesia. In November 1714, after the death of his brother, Alexander inherited the city of Pomeranians . In 1718, he sold the Podgoretsky castle to the hetman, the full crown, Stanislav Mateusz Rzhevsky . In 1720, Elzbieta Sieniawskaya acquired Wilanow from Konstantin Sobieski, and the Polish king Augustus the Strong bought from him a hunting lodge at Marimont in Warsaw.

Konstantin Vladislav Sobiesky was buried in the church of St. Lawrence in Zholkva .

• Jarosław Poraziński, Konstanty Władysław Sobieski, w: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, 2000, t. Xxxix, z. 4 s. 499-502.