page_title: Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz
caption_attribution_description: English: Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz
context_page_description: Prince Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz, Henry Jean-Witold in French, was born the 17 of September 1765 in Sienna and died the 6 of August 1825 in St. Petersburg. He first married Anna Isabel Tepper de Ferguson, daughter of the banker Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson. They had one child Joseph and divorced in 1804. In 1805 he married Marie Thérèse Lasserey, daughter of Jacques Ambroise Lasserey. They also had one child, Count Alexander Henryk, French Henri Alexandre. Due to his implication in the 1794 uprising of Tadeusz Kościuszko he got stripped of his title of Prince, the title was reinstated 1903 by Nicholas II to Marie Thérèse Marguerite Wolodkowicz, his granddaughter. Henry also got granted the title of count by Napoleon I.
  Son of Josef Wołodkowicz and of Regina Broniec, he was a prominent member of the Polish nobility and military officer, who after the partitions of Poland emigrated to France in 1796 with 2 régiments paid on his own money and aided the French Revolution. He got employed as Général de brigade of the cavalry under the command of General Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey for the French army in Italy from 1796 to 1801.
context_section_description: Prince Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz, Henry Jean-Witold in French, was born the 17 of September 1765 in Sienna and died the 6 of August 1825 in St. Petersburg. He first married Anna Isabel Tepper de Ferguson, daughter of the banker Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson. They had one child Joseph (officer in the French army and knight of the Légion d'honneur) and divorced in 1804. In 1805 he married Marie Thérèse Lasserey, daughter of Jacques Ambroise Lasserey. They also had one child, Count Alexander Henryk, French Henri Alexandre (Knight of the Légion d'honneur) .  Due to his implication in the 1794 uprising of Tadeusz Kościuszko he got stripped of his title of Prince, the title was reinstated 1903 by Nicholas II to Marie Thérèse Marguerite Wolodkowicz, his granddaughter. Henry also got granted the title of count by Napoleon I. 
  Son of Josef Wołodkowicz and of Regina Broniec, he was a prominent member of the Polish nobility and military officer, who after the partitions of Poland emigrated to France in 1796 with 2 régiments paid on his own money and aided the French Revolution. He got employed as Général de brigade of the cavalry under the command of General Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey for the French army in Italy from 1796 to 1801. In 1806 he was charged to organize and command the 2éme légion du Nord at Nuremberg, which was incorporated in the Grande Armée the 1st of March 1807. The 27th of September 1807 he was transferred to serve the Grand Duchy of Warsaw by order of the Emperor. The 1st of July  1812 he was made Governor of Minsk with the rank of Maréchal granted by Napoléon. Member of La Grande Armée in Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, he was taken prisoner by the Russians during the battle of Smolensk in 1812, in which his first son Joseph got killed, and deported to Siberia.  He was the last Général of the Grande Armée to be released. 
  According to some his name his carved on the west pillar of the Arc de Triomphe as "Henry", his surname given by Napoleon. The Wolodkowicz family tried three times to correct the name to Wolodkowicz, in 1840, in 1928 with the backing of the polish embassy and in 1980. The French government always replied, that they can´t alter a historic monument. Others argue it is the name of a French colonel Claude François Henry who died 1812 in Spain during the siege Valencia.
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