Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska


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

Life

She was the daughter of and Teresa Zaleska. She married Jan Karol Opaliński on 4 December 1678. They had the children Maria, Catherine (Katarzyna) 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 Opaliński family.