Adam Karol Czartoryski
Polish and Spanish aristocrat
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- Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski ( Polish: [ˈadam ˈkarɔl t͡ʂartɔˈrɨskʲi] ; Spanish: Adán Carlos , IPA: [aˈðaŋ ˈkaɾlos t͡ʃaɾtoˈriski] born 2 January 1940) is a Polish and Spanish aristocrat who is head of the Polish-Lithuanian House of Czartoryski.
- In 2016, he sold the family art collection held in the Czartoryski Museum to the Polish state for approximately €100 million.
- Through his mother, he is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- The Czartoryski rose to power under August Aleksander Czartoryski (1697–1782) of the Klewa line, who married Countess Zofia von Dönhoff, the only heir to the Sieniawski family.
- Biography At the start of World War II (1939–1945) the Germans occupied Poland in September 1939.
Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski (Polish: [ˈadam ˈkarɔl t͡ʂartɔˈrɨskʲi]; Spanish: Adán Carlos, IPA: [aˈðaŋ ˈkaɾlos t͡ʃaɾtoˈriski] born 2 January 1940) is a Polish and Spanish aristocrat who is head of the Polish-Lithuanian House of Czartoryski. He is related to both the Spanish royal family (House of Bourbon-Anjou) and to France's House of Orléans. In 2016, he sold the family art collection held in the Czartoryski Museum to the Polish state for approximately €100 million.
Origins
Adam Karol Czartoryski is the son of Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907–1946) and his wife, Princess María de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Through his mother, he is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. He is the head of the Polish House of Czartoryski, descendants of Gediminas (died 1341), ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Czartoryski rose to power under August Aleksander Czartoryski (1697–1782) of the Klewa line, who married Countess Zofia von Dönhoff, the only heir to the Sieniawski family. The Czartoryski and the Potocki were the two most influential aristocratic families of the last decades of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795).
Biography
At the start of World War II (1939–1945) the Germans occupied Poland in September 1939. The Gestapo arrested Prince Augustyn and Princess Dolores, who was pregnant with Prince Adam Karol. Through their connections to Italian and Spanish royalty they arranged to be deported to Spain. Adam Karol Czartoryski was born on 2 January 1940 in Seville, Spain. Adam Karol's brother Ludwik Piotr was born in 1945. Prince Augustyn and Ludwik Piotr both died in 1946 and were buried in the crypt of the Silesian Church in Seville.
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