Lubomirski Family - First Citizens of The Republic of Poland

First Citizens of The Republic of Poland

The members of the family performed, among others, the following functions in the state: they served as marshals, starosts, governors, and hetmans. Four of the princes Lubomirski held the office of Grand Marshal of the Crown: Jerzy Sebastian, Józef Karol, Stanisław Herakliusz and Stanisław. They were active in the political field chairing the Sejms, forming a private army, many times representing the king at the courts of all Europe. Many times they had a decisive influence on the choice of monarchs. They were also defenders of the nobility, who often entrusted them with their vote at the Sejms and in the election of kings. Jerzy Sebastian was Grand Marshal and Field Hetman of the Crown; nonetheless, he decided to support demands of the nobility gathered in rebellion.

Marriages being made were also important. The representatives of the Lubomirski family cared to become involved with equally powerful and rich families. It enabled them to extend their private estates, and even take over a part of the estate of Ostróg under the Kolbuszowa transaction of 1753. Stanisław Lubomirski (1583 – 1649) married Zofia Ostrogska, Aleksander Michał Lubomirski married Helena Tekla Ossolińska, Krystyna Lubomirska married Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Józef Karol (1638 – 1702) was Teofilia Ludwika Zasławska’s husband, Teresa Lubomirska (d. 1712) was Karol Filip’s wife, the Prince of Neuburg, and Marianna (1693 – 1729) – Paweł Karol Sanguszko’s, Grand Marshal of Lithuania.