Zofia Lubomirska

Zofia Lubomirska (1718-1790), was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman, known for her political involvement.

She was the daughter of Alexander Krasiński and Salomea Trzcinski. She married first to Jan Tarła (d. 1750), who left her the city of Opole in his will. In 1754, she married the magnate Antoni Lubomirski, with whom she actively involved in state affairs; she reportedly persuaded Lubomirski to end his alliance with Austria and instead become a French aget by accepting an allowance from France, both her first spouse and brother belonging to the French Party.

She opposed the marriage of her niece Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska to Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, but relented on the wish of her spouse and brother who saw it as an advancement as Charles had the prospect of the Courland throne; she and August Czartoryski insisted that the marriage be made legitimate and public. During the interregnum of 1763-64, she supported the candidacy of Charles to the throne, while attempting to build a bridge between the Patriot Party, which she represented, and the Familia Party of her ally Czartoryski. During the Radom Confederation, she visited Warsaw with her niece. She negotiated with August Czartoryski och and Marshal Stanisław Lubomirski and ally them to the Confederation in 1769-70.

She produced two political comments about Polish politics in 1770, in which she argued for a reform of the rights of the nobility as well as civil and juridic court systems. She spent most of her life on her domains at Opole, Przeworsk and Dobromil, where she reformed farming, cattle and sheep keeping and introduced a wast textile industrial activity with the help of foreign experts. After the fall of the Radom Confederation, she lived at Przeworsk with Franciszka Krasińska, whom she reunited with Charles in Opole in 1775. In 1781, she hosted Grand Duke Paul of Russia in Opole, and king Stanisław in 1787. She was known as a patron of authors and literature.

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• Biogram został opublikowany w 1972 r. w XVII tomie Polskiego Słownika Biograficznego