STANISŁAW ERNEST DENHOFF, of his own coat of arms (c 1673-1728)
Marshal of extraordinary Seyms in Warsaw: 5-19 IV 1712,
31 XII 1712 - 21 II 1713
Starost of Koscierzyna, Grand Huntmaster of Lithuania from 1697,
Field Hetman of Lithuania (without senatorship!) from 1709, Grand
Swordbearer of the Crown and Palatine of Polock from 1721.
He came from a wealthy Livonian family. He was a deputy to the 1697
election Seym, where he signed the election of August II Wettin.
The Marshal of the Sandomierz Confederation of Little Poland in 1702,
he opened the session of the extraordinary Lublin Seym, where he was
elected a commissioner to regulate the border disputes with Silesia.
One of the initiators and from 20 V 1704 the Marshal of General (all-Poland)
Confederation of Sandomierz, grouping majority of the nation loyal to August II,
he was opposed to the monarch's dethronement. Being very popular
among the gentry and the army he kept the Marshal's office till
the 'Dumb' Seym in 1717, which dismissed the Confederation of
Sandomierz. He chaired the Warsaw General Council in 1710, when
August II's return to the Polish throne was legalized.
After 1717, indignant at the king for limiting hetman's prerogatives
(e.g. separation of a foreign contingent), he went over to the opposition
Portrait of Stanisław Ernest Denhoff, after 1713
- painted by Adam Manyoki
- oil canvas, 79x63 cm
- Ł.Kr.(Ł.Kr.876)