Antoni Protazy Potocki

Antoni Protazy Potocki

Coat of arms	Piława
Consort	Marianna Lubomirska
Issue with Marianna Lubomirska Emilia Potocka
Noble family	Potocki
Father	Jan Prosper Potocki
Mother	Paula Szembek
Born	(1761-09-11)September 11, 1761 Guzów near Skierniewice
Died	1801

Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, was a Polish noble (szlachcic). Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781.

Antoni became a banker in Warsaw and was also voivode of Kiev Voivodship in 1791 and starost of Guzów, Żyrardów County^[1]..

He was the owner of Chudniv and organized several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv. He directed the Polish Black Sea Trading Company, and ran an import-export business in Russian-ruled Kherson. He inherited from his father big capital. Potocki bankrupted in 1793 in connection to financial crisis.^[2]

References

^ Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134.
^ Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.

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Name	Potocki, Antoni Protazy
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Date of birth	11 September 1761
Place of birth	Guzów near Skierniewice
Date of death	1801
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