Zakończenie procesu scalania Archiwum Potockich z Łańcuta

• Authors: Jarosław Zawadzki

Title variants

EN

End of the Process of Merging of the Potockis’ Łańcut Archives

Abstracts

EN

Families of Pilecki, Stadnicki and Lubomirski were the next owners of Łańcut estate from the mid–14th century. In 1816 this estate was passed to Julia, the daughter of Stanislaw and Elizabeth (Isabella) from the Czartoryski Lubomirski Family. Julia was the wife of Jan Potocki, a famous writer and traveler. Then the property was inherited by their sons, Alfred and Arthur. The latter received Krzeszowice and Lancut inherited Alfred. In hands of his descendants remained Lancut to 1945, its last owner, Alfred Potocki, exported the most valuable archives of Austria in 1945. After the death of Alfred Potocki and his wife archives have been divided. Parchments and part of the papers were purchased by Dr. Tomasz Niewodniczanski (then he handed it to the collections of the Royal Castle in Warsaw), part of the financial, legal and personal documents from the Potockis’ Archive bought Brigham Young University, correspondence file and the rest of the financial documents acquired The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). PIASA forwarded to AGAD one part of the legacy of Potocki Family in 1994. Then Brigham Young University sold its part of the Łańcut collection to Polish authorities in 2000. PIASA donated the last part of the Potockis’ Archive to AGAD thanks to the efforts of the Head Office of the Polish State Archives and many people of good will in spring of 2008. These are the materials from the sixteenth to 20th century, which are located in 76 boxes and measure six meters. The materials include: correspondence from 17th to 20th century, personal files of Potocki Family, and above all extremely valuable documents of county of Wiśnicz, province Krakow 16th-19th century. A few documents are related to other estates and public affairs. Reconstructed in this way The Potockis’ Lancut Archive became one of the most valuable archives of private provenance preserved in AGAD.

Keywords

PL

Potoccy; Archiwum Potockich; Łańcut; archiwa rodzinno-majątkowe; archiwa podworskie

• Publisher: Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych
• Journal: Miscellanea Historico-Archivistica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 17
• Pages: 147-152

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Jarosław Zawadzki

• Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych

References

• Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych, Archiwum Potockich z Łańcuta, sygn. 1487–4253, 4290, 4300-4301, 4303–4309, 4313–4316, 4318, 4322–4351, 4353, 4355–4358, 4362–4399, 4401-4402, 4427-4435, 4437–4627, 4633–5014.
• Miscellanea Historico-Archivistica, t. 8, 1997.
• Zawadzki J., Przekazanie do AGAD części Archiwum Potockich z Łańcuta, „Archeion”, t. 103, 2001, s. 276–280.

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

23352291