Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski
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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...	Zamoyski Zamoyski Zamojski, plural: Zamojscy is the surname of an important Polish nobility family of Jelita coat of arms. The name is sometimes spelled Zamoyski. It is the Polish for "de Zamość" - the name they originally wore as lords of the place...
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...	Jelita
Parents	Tomasz Franciszek Zamoyski Tomasz Franciszek Zamoyski Count Tomasz Franciszek Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman .Tomasz was the 14th Ordynat of Zamość estate. He married Maria Potocka on September 16, 1869.... Maria Potocka
Consorts	Maria Róża Sapieha
Children	with Maria Róża Sapieha: Maria Zamoyska Zofia Zamoyska Róża Zamoyska Jan Zamoyski Jan Zamoyski (1912-2002) Count Jan Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman and politician.Jan became the 16th Ordynat of Zamość estate. During the Second World War he served as a soldier; after the Invasion of Poland he joined the Armia Krajowa. After the fall of the Iron Curtain he was a member of the Senate in the 3rd Republic... Andrzej Zamoyski Władysław Marek Zamoyski Anna Zamoyska Paweł Zamoyski Teresa Zamoyska Krystyna Zamoyska
Date of Birth	30 July 1871
Place of Birth	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...
Date of Death	5 May 1939
Place of Death	Klemensów (now part of Szczebrzeszyn Szczebrzeszyn Szczebrzeszyn is a city in southeastern Poland in Lublin Voivodeship, in Zamość County, about 20 km west of Zamość. From 1975–1999, it was part of the Zamość Voivodeship administrative district. The town serves as the seat to Gmina Szczebrzeszyn. A 2004 census counted 5,357 inhabitants... )

Count Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski (1871–1939) 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), politician, social activist, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Maurycy was the 15th Ordynat of Zamość

Zamosc

Zamość ukr. Замостя is a town in southeastern Poland with 66,633 inhabitants , situated in the south-western part of Lublin Voivodeship , about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine...

 estate and the biggest land owner in pre-World War II Poland. He co-founded and became chairman of the Agricultural Society in 1903. In the Russian occupied part of Poland

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years...

 member of the Duma

Duma

A Duma is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. The State Duma in the Russian Empire and Russian Federation corresponds to the lower house of the parliament. Simply it is a form of Russian governmental institution, that was formed during the reign of the...

. During the First World War vice-chairman of the National Committee in 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...

 later vice-chairman of the National Committee in Paris.

He ran in the 1922 presidential elections, as a candidate of the right-wing camp, supported by various political parties, most notably the National Democracy political camp. He won four rounds of the election, losing however the fifth one to Gabriel Narutowicz

Gabriel Narutowicz

Gabriel Narutowicz was a Lithuanian-born professor of hydroelectric engineering at Switzerland's Zurich Polytechnic, and Poland's Minister of Public Works , Minister of Foreign Affairs , and the first president of the Second Polish Republic....

, who was hence elected the President of Poland. From 1919–1924 ambassador in Paris. From 19 January 1924 until 27 July 1924 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

He married Princess Maria Róża Sapieha on 18 July 1906 in Białka Szlachecka.