Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska


Sofia Anna Czarnkowska was a Polish noblewoman, known as the maternal grandmother of the queen of France.

Life

She was the daughter of Adam Uriel Czarnkowski and Theresa Zaleska. She married Jan Karol Opaliński on December 4, 1678. They had the children Maria, Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland, a stillborn child, and Stanislas. She became the grandmother of Marie Leszczyńska and Anna Leszczyńska.
She died on 8 December 1701 from pneumonia aged 41, at Breslau.

Legacy

A monument was erected in 1748 in the church of Sieraków. The crypt in a nearby castle contains the sarcophagus of the Opalinńki family.
Among her matrilineal descendants is the King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who is her descendant through an unbroken line of Bourbon princesses from Marie Leszczyńska of France, who married within the Bourbon house.

Opaliński-Czarnkowski family