Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski was a Polish-Lithuanian

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

 noble (szlachcic), magnate

Magnate

Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...

, and founder of the family fortune.

August became Major-General of the Polish Army in 1729, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship in 1731, General Starost of Podolia

Podolia

The region of Podolia is an historical region in the west-central and south-west portions of present-day Ukraine, corresponding to Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Vinnytsia Oblast. Northern Transnistria, in Moldova, is also a part of Podolia...

 in 1750–1758, and a Knight of Malta

Knights Hospitaller

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. He was Starost of Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Kościerzyna

Koscierzyna

Kościerzyna is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with some 24,000 inhabitants. It has been the capital of Kościerzyna County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998...

, Lubochnia, Kałusz, Latowicz

Latowicz

Latowicz is a village in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Latowicz. It lies approximately south-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and east of Warsaw....

, Lucyn, Wąwolnica

Wawolnica

Wąwolnica may refer to the following places in Poland:*Wąwolnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Wąwolnica, Lublin Voivodeship...

, Kupiski and Pieniań.

He supported Stanisław I Leszczyński during the War of the Polish Succession

War of the Polish Succession

The War of the Polish Succession was a major European war for princes' possessions sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II, King of Poland that other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests...

 in 1733. In the reign of August III, with his brother Michał

Michal Fryderyk Czartoryski

Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski was a szlachcic - a nobleman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, magnate, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle since 1726....

 he was a leader of the "Familia

Familia

Familia was the name of a Polish political party led by the Czartoryski magnates and families allied with them, and formed toward the end of the reign of King August II...

." During the interregnum

Interregnum

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 of 1763–1764 he strove for the Polish crown for himself, later for his son Adam Kazimierz. In 1764–1766 he was Marshal of the General Confederation (konfederacja generalna); from 1764, Regimentarz

Regimentarz

Regimentarz was a military commander since the 16th century in Poland, of an army group or substitute of Hetman, nominated by the King or the Sejm....

 of the Crown. He was a supporter of political reforms in the Republic, and an opponent of the Radom Confederation

Radom Confederation

Radom Confederation was a konfederacja of nobility in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth formed in Radom on 23 June 1767 to prevent reforms and defend the Golden Liberties...

.

Awards

• Knight of the White Eagle Order, awarded 23 July 1731
• Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus
  Order of Saint Stanislaus
  The Order of Saint Stanislaus , also spelled Stanislas, was an Order in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and The Kingdom of Poland between 1765 and 1831 and of Russian Empire from 1831 to 1917.-History of the Order of Saint Stanislaus:Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland, established the...
  
  
• Order of Saint Andrzej