The House of Opaliński (plural Opalińscy ) was the name of an old and notable Polish noble family which produced one Queen Consort of Poland and Duchess Consort of Lorraine .
4-449: They originated from the town of Opalenica and used the Coat of arms of Łodzia . They were powerful players in the politics of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries. One branch of the family hailed from Sieraków . Its notable members included: This biography of a Polish noble is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Opalenica Opalenica [ɔpalɛˈɲit͡sa]
8-721: Is a town in Nowy Tomyśl County , Greater Poland Voivodeship , Poland , with 9,861 inhabitants (as of 2007). The Opaliński noble family originated here as lords of the area and a branch of the Bniński family of Łodzia coat of arms . Opalenica was granted town rights in 1400. Opalenica was a private town , administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of
12-692: The Lebensraum policy. The Polish resistance was active in Opalenica. Heliodor Jankiewicz, commander of the local unit of the Narodowa Organizacja Bojowa organization, was arrested by the Germans in 1941, and then sentenced to death and executed the following year. In 1943, the occupiers renamed the town to Oppenbach in attempt to erase traces of Polish origin. In January 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of various nationalities from
16-660: The Kingdom of Poland. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II ), the first expulsions of 183 Poles were carried out in December 1939. The Poles were sent to a transit camp in Młyniewo , and afterwards deported to the General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses, workshops, etc. were handed over to German colonists as part of
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