Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
Coat of arms	Korczak
Spouse(s)	Aleksandra von Engelhardt
Issue Katarzyna Branicka Aleksander Branicki Władysław Grzegorz Branicki Zofia Branicka Elżbieta Branicka
Noble family	Branicki
Father	Piotr Branicki
Mother	Melania Teresa Szembek
Born	1730 Barwałd Górny
Died	April 1819 (aged 88–89) Biała Cerkiew, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (1730, Barwałd Górny - 1819) was a Polish nobleman of the Korczak coat of arms, magnate and one of the leaders of the Targowica Confederation.

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

Great Crown Podstoli in 1764, Ambassador in Berlin in 1765, Master of the Hunt of the Crown in 1766-1773, Artillery General of Lithuania in 1768-1773, Ambassador in Moscow in 1771, Field Crown Hetman in 1773 and Great Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1774-1794.

Awarded with White Eagle Order in December 1764. He married Aleksandra von Engelhardt, a niece of Prince Potemkin, in 1781.

Opponent of the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788–1792), supporter of the Hetman Party and the Targowica Confederation. Sentenced to death in absentia by the Supreme Criminal Court during the Kościuszko Uprising (1794). He also fought a duel with the infamous Casanova, in which both were wounded but survived.^{[citation needed]}

Remembrance

He is one of the figures immortalized in Jan Matejko's 1891 painting, Constitution of May 3, 1791.