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Prince Adam Karol Jezus Maria Józef Franciszek Salezy and all the Saints Czartoryski, es.

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

Adán Carlos Jesús María José Francisco de Sales y todos los Santos Czartoryski-Bórbon Krasinski y Orléans (born 2 January 1940 in Seville

Seville

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, Spain

Spain

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) is a Polish-Spanish aristocrat, the creator of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation

Princes Czartoryski Foundation

The Princes Czartoryski Foundation was established by Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski in 1991 and administering the Czartoryski Museum under the auspices of the National Museum in Kraków, Poland.* Founder & President: Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski...

, and a patron of the arts.

He is the Head of the Polish House of Czartoryski, descendants of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, and one of the most powerful families in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

. Through both his father and mother, he is related to most of Europe's royal families.

Family

Adam Karol Czartoryski was born in 1940 as the first son of Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski

Augustyn Józef Czartoryski

Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski was a Polish noble . He was the son of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski and Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska....

and Princess Maria de los Dolores Borbon y Orleans

Princess Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria de los Dolores Victoria Filippa Maria de las Mercedes Luisa Carlota Eugenia y Todos los Santos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was a daughter of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his wife Princess Louise of Orléans...

, who held the rank of Infanta of Spain. He had a younger brother, Prince Ludwik Piotr Czartoryski.

Augustyn Józef was the eldest son of the seven children of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski

Adam Ludwik Czartoryski

Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski was a Polish nobleman, landowner, and patron of the arts.Adam became the head of the Czartoryski family after the death of his father Władysław. In 1897 he became Ordynat of the Sieniawa Ordynacja property. Capital assets were estimated at 4.5 million Austrian...

and Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska

Maria Ludwika Krasinska

Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska was a Polish noble lady.Maria was married to Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski, married on August 31, 1901 in Warsaw....

. Adam Ludwik's parents were Prince Władysław Czartoryski, a political activist in exile, collector of art and founder of the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, and his second wife Princess Marguerite Adelaide of Orléans

Princess Marguerite Adelaide of Orléans

Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Marie of Orléans, , , was a member of the House of Orléans and a Princess of France by birth...

, daughter of Prince Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours

Louis, Duke of Nemours

Prince Louis of Orléans was the second son of the future King Louis-Philippe I of France, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. Under the reign of his father from 1830–1848, he was styled as Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours.-Childhood:He was born at the Palais Royal, in Paris...

and granddaughter of King Louis-Philippe of France

Louis-Philippe of France

Louis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the French Revolution but was nevertheless guillotined. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile, including considerable time in the...

.

Princess Maria de los Dolores was the second of four children of Infante Carlos de Borbon-Dos Sicilias

Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Don Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante of Spain was the son of Prince Alfonso of the Two...

's second marriage, be being the second son of Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta

Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta

Prince Alfonso Maria Giuseppe Alberto of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta was the third son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria....

and of Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Infante Carlos was a nephew of the last Neapolitan king, Francis II of the Two Sicilies

Francis II of the Two Sicilies

Francis II , was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861. He was the last King of the Two Sicilies, as successive invasions by Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia ultimately brought an end to his rule, and marked the first major event of Italian unification...

.

Through her father, Maria de los Dolores Borbon y Orleans was a great-granddaughter of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

Ferdinand II was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death.-Family:Ferdinand was born in Palermo, the son of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his wife and first cousin Maria Isabella of Spain.His paternal grandparents were King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Marie...

. Her mother was Princess Louise of Orléans

Princess Louise of Orléans

Louise d'Orléans was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain....

, the second wife of Infante Carlos of Spain, youngest daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, the Orleanist pretender.

Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski is a first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I |Italy]]) is the reigning King of Spain.On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated king according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. Spain had no monarch for 38 years in 1969 when Franco named Juan Carlos as the...

, their mothers having been sisters.

Ancestry

Family

He married firstly Eleonora "Nora" Picciotto

Nora de Picciotto

Baroness Nora Bentinck, formerly Princess Nora Czartoryski is the first wife of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski , mother of Princess Tamara Laura Czartoryska.Nora Picciotto was born on the 9 of September 1942 in Cairo, Egypt as a daughter of Ferdinand Picciotto, an Italian born in...

, they have one daughter, Tamara Czartoryska. His second wife is Josette Calil.

Interests, activities and honours

His Polish father was in exile because of political changes in Poland

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...

. Prince Adam Karol was educated in Spain, and then in England

England

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, and remained outside of the People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

until the fall of the Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain

The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989...

in 1989.

In 1991 the High Court of the Nation returned to Prince Adam Karol the Czartoryski Museum

Czartoryski Museum

The Czartoryski Museum and Library is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Puławy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Puławy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians...

and Library with all its contents. He created the Princes Czartoryski Foundation

Princes Czartoryski Foundation

to run, organize, and administer the museum collection. In recognition of this he was decorated with the Commander's Cross with Star (pol.

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą) of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...

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In 1992 he was responsible for the Polish Pavilion during the Universal EXPO

World's Fair

World's fair, World fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo are various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All...

in Seville

Seville

, Spain.

Selected Awards and Honours

Knight of Ronda (Maestrante de Caballeria de Ronda)

Knight of Madrid (Hijos Dalgo de la Nobleza de Madrid)

Member of Mozarabes of Toledo (Mozarabes de Toledo)

Knight of Malta

Selected Sports Medals

Silver Medal Spanish Judo Federation.(FEJ)

Gold Medal Spanish Wrestling Federation. (FEL)

Gold Medal International Wrestling Federation. (FILA)

Gold Medal Ministry of Sports of Taiwan.

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