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 | | Familia ("The Family," from the Latin familia) was the name of a Polish political party led by the Czartoryski magnates and families allied with them, and formed toward the end of the reign of King August II (reigned 1697-1706, 1709-1733). |
 | | The Familia's principal leaders were Michal Fryderyk Czartoryski, Great Chancellor of Lithuania, his brother August Aleksander Czartoryski, voivod of Ruthenia (Rus), and their brother-in-law (from 1720), Stanislaw Poniatowski, Castellan of Krakow. |
 | | When in 1764 Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski declined to seek the throne, the Czartoryskis agreed to the election, as king, of their kinsman, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, one-time lover of Russian Empress Catherine II (the Great). |
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