Lubomirska Joanna Maria Ignacja Karolina von Stein zu Jettingen

Lubomirska Joanna Maria Ignacja Karolina von Stein zu Jettingen (1723 – 30 III 1783 in Libusza), wife of the Standard Bearer of the Crown

Parents: Anna Maria Guttenberg and baron Franz Makward Alexander von Stein zu Jettingen

Husband: Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski (1687-1753),  son of Konstancja nee Bokum (d. 1708) and Augustyn Hieronim Lubomirski (d. 1706)

 

Lubomirska Joanna Maria Ignacja Karolina von Stein zu Jettingen was the second wife of Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski, whom she married on February 28, 1737 in Krakow, seven years after the death of his first wife, Marianna née Bieliński, primo voto Denhoff. Her sister was Maria Franciszka, the wife of Aleksander Józef Sułkowski. She had several children with Ignacy Lubomirski, including Adolf (1738-1775), the Grand Ensign of the Crown, Franciszek Grzegorz (1752-1812), Jerzy, Józefa Zofia, wife of Adam Poniński, the Treasurer of the Crown, and Barbara, wife of Kasper Lubomirski (1724-1780), voivode of Kraków.

They often visited Dresden and Warsaw to stay with King Augustus III, and Joanna was considered a favourite of Minister Henry Brühl (1700-1763). Lubomirski’s contacts with the Wettin royal court dated back to his early youth, as he grew up with his aunt, August II’s mistress – Urszula Katarzyna Lubomirska, née Bokum, Duchess of Cieszyn. Lubomirski’s contacts with the Dresden court were also strengthened thanks to the marriage of his younger brother Aleksander Jakub Lubomirski (1695-1772), a retired Prefect (lat. praefectus curruum, pol. oboźny) of the Crown, who married Karolina Fryderyka von Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1701-1755) and was an almost permanent resident in Dresden. The Lubomirskis also maintained close contacts with the youngest of Jerzy Ignacy’s brothers – Jan Kazimierz (1697-1737), starost of Bolimów, married to Urszula née Branicki.

The Court

The spouses mainly resided in Rzeszów, where Lubomirski had the castle renovated. His marriage to Joanna prompted him to undertake innovative work on the castle grounds, creating beautiful Rococo gardens. After the death of Jerzy Ignacy, Joanna, as a result of a conflict with his son from first marriage, Teodor Hieronim (1720-1761), moved to Libusza, where she lived and administrated for several decades. Although she would return to Rzeszów, Libusza remained her favourite residence. She was its owner until 1771. Joanna Lubomirska had a lavish and well-organized court, the finances of which were based on income from the Cudno and Libusza estates

 

See also:

Bożena Popiołek, The Courts of Marianna Lubomirska nee Bielińska and Joanna von Stein Lubomirska the wives of the Grand Standard Bearer of the Crown, as an example of a women’s court in Old Poland, „Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej”, 70 (2), 2022, s. 183-200. LINK