Katarzyna Branicka | |
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Coat of arms | Korczak |
Born |
Luboml, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) |
10 December 1825
Died | 20 September 1907 Krzeszowice, Grand Duchy of Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now in Poland) |
(aged 81)
Noble family | Branicki |
Spouse(s) | Adam Józef Potocki |
Issue | |
Father | Władysław Grzegorz Branicki |
Mother |
Countess Katarzyna Potockka from 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.