caption father predecessor successor succession birth_place death_date death_place house mother birth_date coronation spouse signature image article_title name reign
'' ` king michael '' ' jeremi wiśniowiecki john ii casimir vasa john iii sobieski king of poland grand duke of lithuania biały kamień , poland 10 november 1673 lwów , poland wiśniowiecki gryzelda konstancja zamoyska 31 may 1640 september 29 , 1669 eleonora maria of austria signature of miachel korybut wiśniowiecki.png michał karybut višniaviecki . Міхал Карыбут Вішнявецкі.jpg michał korybut wiśniowiecki
 michael i june 19 , 1669 -- november 10 , 1673
michał korybut wiśniowiecki

michael i -lrb- , ; may 31 , 1640 -- november 10 , 1673 -rrb- , of korybut coat of arms , son of jeremi wiśniowiecki and his wife gryzelda konstancja zamoyska , was ruler of the polish -- lithuanian commonwealth as king of poland and grand duke of lithuania from september 29 , 1669 , to his death in 1673 .
michael 's reign was marked by struggles between the pro-habsburg and pro-french political factions .
a native pole and descendant of korybut , brother of king władysław ii jagiełło , michael was freely elected by the unanimous vote of the polish nobility , however he was chosen chiefly for the merit of his father , jeremi wiśniowiecki , a great border magnate and a powerful military leader who had victoriously kept down the rebels in eastern poland , and he proved to be a passive tool in the hands of the habsburgs .
in view of this , the french party rallied round john sobieski , a military commander of rising fame .
the dissensions between the two camps cost poland a new defeat at the hands of the united turks and cossacks .
sealed by the treaty of buczacz -lrb- 1672 -rrb- , by which all polish occupied ukraine came under turkish suzerainty , this defeat was wiped out only by a brilliant victory of sobieski 's at battle of chocim -lrb- 1673 -rrb- , which also , after king michael 's early death , carried him to the throne -lrb- as john iii sobieski -rrb- against an austrian candidate .
in 1670 michael i was married to eleonora maria of austria -lrb- 1653-1697 -rrb- , daughter of ferdinand iii , holy roman emperor , by his third wife eleonora gonzaga .
