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Maria Kazimiera

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien
Maria Kazimiera Sobieska Queen of Poland.PNG
Queen consort of Poland
Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
Tenure 1676–1696
Coronation 2 February 1676
Born (1641-06-28)28 June 1641
Died 30 January 1716(1716-01-30) (aged 74)
Spouse John Zamoyski
John III Sobieski
Issue Jakub Ludwik Sobieski
Teresa Teofila Sobieska
Adelaide Luise Sobieska
Maria Teresa Sobieska
Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska
Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski
Konstanty Władysław Sobieski
Jan Sobieski
Father Henri de la Grange d'Arquien
Mother Françoise de la Châtre
Signature Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien's signature

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (Polish: Maria Kazimiera d’Arquien), known also by the diminutive form "Marysieńka" (28 June 1641, Nevers – 30 January 1716, Blois) was consort to King John III Sobieski, from 1674 to 1696.

Marie Casimire and her sister were the only surviving children of Henri de la Grange d'Arquien, a French nobleman. She came to Poland at the age of five years as a lady in waiting to Marie Louise Gonzaga, the French-born Queen of Poland from 1645 to 1672, wife and consort to two Polish kings — Władysław IV Vasa and later his brother (who succeeded him) John II Casimir Vasa. At the court she met John Sobieski, who arrived there in 1656, but she was first married to Jan "Sobiepan" Zamoyski in 1658, with whom she had three daughters, all died in infancy. Zamoyski died in 1665 and the widowed Marie Casimire eventually married Sobieski on the 14 July the same year. The couple had fourteen (some sources say fifteen) children together, but only four of them survived until adult age — Jakub, Aleksander, Konstanty and Teresa (who later became Kurfürstin of Bavaria and mother to Emperor Karl VII).

John Sobieski was elected King of Poland in 1672, not without the influence of his wife. As the Queen of Poland, Marie Casimire supported the proposed Polish–French alliance, while at the same time striving to gain privileges for her family from the French king Louis XIV.


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