Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien
| Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien | |
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Queen consort of Poland Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania |
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| Tenure | 1676–1696 |
| Coronation | 2 February 1676 |
| Born | 28 June 1641 |
| Died | 30 January 1716 (aged 74) |
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John Zamoyski John III Sobieski |
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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 |
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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 four children. After all of them died in infancy, Marie Casimire fell into a severe depression from which she did not recover until the following year. Zamoyski died in 1665 and just three months later, the widowed Marie Casimire married Sobieski on the 14 July the same year. The couple had fourteen 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 autocracy and 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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