Franciszek Grocholski
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Franciszek Grocholski
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Noble Family
Szlachta
The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

Grocholski
Coat of Arms
Polish heraldry
Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe...

Syrokomla
Parents Michał Grocholski
Agnieszka Radzymińska
Consorts Helena Lesznicka
Children with Helena Lesznicka
Tekla Grocholska
Julia Grocholska
Antoni Grocholski
Jan Nepomucen Grocholski
Date of Birth November 2, 1730
Place of Birth Wornowica
Date of Death November 11, 1792
Place of Death Tereszki

Franciszek Grocholski (1730–1792) was a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 nobleman (szlachcic).

Franciszek became Podstoli
Podstoli
Podstoli was a court office in Poland and Lithuania. A Podstoli was the deputy of a Stolnik, and was responsible for the King's pantry....

 of Braclaw since 1761, Borough Writer of Krzemieniec since 1764, Chamberlain
Chamberlain (office)
A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing a household. In many countries there are ceremonial posts associated with the household of the sovereign....

 of King Stanisław August Poniatowski since 1767, Podczaszy
Podczaszy
Podczaszy was since the 13th century a court office in Poland and later in Lithuania. Podczaszy was the deputy of Cześnik, with the time more important than his superior....

 of Braclaw since 1771, Chorąży
Chorąży
Chorąży or Khorunzhyi is a military rank in Poland, Ukraine and some neighboring countries. A chorąży was once a knight who bore a standard — the emblem of an armed troop, a province , a land , a duchy, or the kingdom...

 of Winnica
Winnica
Winnica may refer to the following places: see Winnica Zbrodzice*Winnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Winnica, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship...

 since 1772, Chorąży of Braclaw since 1774, Great Miecznik
Miecznik
Miecznik was a court office in Poland. Responsible for the arsenal of the King and for carrying his sword.Since the 14th Century an honorable title of district office, in Kingdom of Poland and after Union of Lublin in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....

 of the Crown since 1775, Bracław Voivodeship deputy for the Great Sejm
Great Sejm
The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm was a Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw, beginning in 1788...

.

Konsyliarz of the Targowica Confederation
Targowica Confederation
The Targowica Confederation was a confederation established by Polish and Lithuanian magnates on 27 April 1792, in Saint Petersburg, with the backing of the Russian Empress Catherine II. The confederation opposed the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, which had been adopted by the Great Sejm,...

.

Awards

  • 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...

    , awarded in 1776.
  • Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 1778.
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