Jerzy Marcin Lubomirski

Jerzy Marcin Lubomirski (24 October 1738, Kraków – 27 June 1811 in Przecław) – Bar Confederate, general officer of Polish Crown Army (1773), art patron, and diarist (his Diaries were published in 1867). Life He was the son of Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski, swordbearer of the Crown, and Anna Zofia Ożarowska. The young prince was schooled at Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw and the Académie de Stanislas in Lunéville. After completing his education, he traveled around Europe and stayed longer in Paris, where, at the age of sixteen, he spent a considerable fortune entrusted to him by his father. Hearing about his son's wasteful life, his father summoned him to Poland and decided to assign his son to a military career. Thanks to various protections, Jerzy Marcin was promoted to the rank of major general. In response, he gathered a band of two hundred robbers and plundered Połonne, the property of his father. He then kidnapped the seventeen-year-old lady-in-waiting of his mother, Anna Weleżyńska, and escaped with her to the estate near Częstochowa. It belonged to his uncle Franciszek Lubomirski, whom he quickly robbed and burned his property. During the Seven Years' War he fought on Prussia's side on the Czech and Silesian lands against András Hadik. He deserted them to go to the Polish side and set up a camp for his gang of robbers in Kamień near Częstochowa. They offered their robber services to the Russians. The gang attacked mainly Prussian food transports, some of which were handed over to the Russian army, but also organized raids on villages and small towns of Greater Poland and Silesia. Antoni Benedykt decided to put an end to his son's actions - he entered an agreement with Jan Klemens Branicki and obtained the king's consent to use the crown army against the robbers. The gang was smashed on June 29, 1759 by three regiments of the Crown, after capturing the Stone. The captured robbers, after a very short trial, were hanged in Krakow, and Jerzy Marcin himself was expelled from the army, and sent to Kamieniec Podolski with a life sentence, which, thanks to his father's intervention, was changed to fifteen years. Initially, he was imprisoned in Białystok; in 1760 he was transferred to the Munkacz fortress, and in 1763 to the prison in Buda. Here he met Anna Maria Hadik von Futak, the daughter of the field marshal and the commander of the fortress, Andras Hadik, who, as a future father-in-law, began efforts to free him.