Antoni Protazy Potocki
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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...	Potocki
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...	Piława
Parents	Jan Prosper Potocki Paula Szembek
Consorts	Marianna Lubomirska Marianna Lubomirska Princess Marianna Lubomirska was a Polish noble lady.She was heiress of large Ostrog estates. She was married to Prince Pawel Karol Sanguszko....
Children	with Marianna Lubomirska Marianna Lubomirska Princess Marianna Lubomirska was a Polish noble lady.She was heiress of large Ostrog estates. She was married to Prince Pawel Karol Sanguszko.... Emilia Potocka
Date of Birth	September 11, 1761
Place of Birth	Guzów Guzów Guzów may refer to the following places in Poland:*Guzów, Lubusz Voivodeship *Guzów, Szydłowiec County in Masovian Voivodeship *Guzów, Żyrardów County in Masovian Voivodeship...  near Skierniewice Skierniewice Skierniewice is a town in central Poland with 49,132 inhabitants , situated in the Łódź Voivodship , previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship . It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situated almost exactly half-way between Łódź and Warsaw.Skierniewice gained municipal rights...
Date of Death	1801
Place of Death	?

Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, 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...

 noble (szlachcic). Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781.

Antoni became a banker 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...

 and was also voivode of Kiev Voivodship in 1791 and starost of Guzów, Żyrardów County..

He was the owner of Chudniv

Chudniv

Chudniv is a town in Chudniv Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chudniv Raion. The population was 6,257 ....

 and organized several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv

Berdychiv

Berdychiv is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion , the city itself is of direct oblast subordinance, and is located south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr, at around .The current estimated population is around...

. He directed the Polish Black Sea Trading Company, and ran an import-export business in Russian-ruled Kherson

Kherson

Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry...

. He inherited from his father big capital. Potocki bankrupted in 1793 in connection to financial crisis.