page_title: Leszczyński
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Leszczyński / History
caption_attribution_description: Queen of France
context_page_description: Leszczyński was a prominent Polish noble family. They were magnates in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
context_section_description: The Leszczyński family was a magnate family. In 1473 (and not in 1476), Rafał Leszczyński obtained from Emperor Frederick III the title of count. This title was conferred on "the entire family". The last representative of the main family, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later Duke of Lorraine, died in 1766.
  The family name derives from Leszczyna, now a suburb of Leszno, Greater Poland. The Leszczyński family obtained the title of count of Leszno in the Holy Roman Empire. The family had its greatest importance in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when they were ardent supporters of Calvinism and turned their estates of Leszno and Baranów Sandomierski into major centres of the Polish Reformed Church.
  There is another unrelated Leszczyński family with the Abdank coat of arms.
caption: Maria Leszczyńska
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