Madame Royale » Catherine Opalińska http://www.madameroyale.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Anna Leszczyńska http://www.madameroyale.com/2009/09/25/anna-leszczynska/ http://www.madameroyale.com/2009/09/25/anna-leszczynska/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:48:12 +0000 admin http://www.madameroyale.com/?p=134 250px-Anna_LeszczynskaPoor, poor, poor Anna Leszczyńska, not much is written about her life.  Anna was born on May 25, 1699 in Trzebnica, Poland to King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland and Catherine Opalińska. After 18 years of life Anna died on June 20, 1717 of pneumonia. Why is this all that is known about poor Anna? My guess is she didn’t live long enough to become important. Because Princesses were usually used to marry off into other royal families and then became important links, Anna was more or less lost in time. What is interesting in her little known history is that she was named after her grandmother and her sister Maria became queen of France when she married Louis XV. Her father was King twice and both times dethroned and finally made the Duke of Lorraine, and her mothers information is almost as just as hard to find as Anna’s.

 

 

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Anna Leszczyńska
Catherine Opalińska
Princess Anna Jabłonowska (her paternal grandmother)

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