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Sofia Anna Czarnkowska (also called Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska or Catherine-Sophie-Anne Czarnkowska) (12 March 1660 – 2 December 1701) was the daughter of Adam Uriel Czarnkowski and Theresa Zaleska. She was also the grandmother of Marie Leszczyńska (who would be Queen Consort of France, married to Louis XV of France) and Anne Leszczyńska.
She died on 8 December 1701 from pneumonia aged 41, at Breslau (today Wrocław).
A monument was erected in 1748 in the church of Sieraków. The crypt in a nearby castle contains the sarcophagus of the Opalinńki family.
Among her matrilineal descendants is the King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who is her descendant through an unbroken line of Bourbon princesses from Marie Leszczyńska of France, who married within the Bourbon house.
Succession
She was married to Jan Karol Opaliński on December 4, 1678. They had several children:
- Maria (August 1679 – October 1679)
- Catherine (Katarzyna) Opalińska, Queen of Poland (1680–1743)
- Stillborn child (1681)
- Stanislas (1682–1682)
Opaliński-Czarnkowski family
| Piotr Opaliński | |||||||||||||
| Krzysztof Opaliński | |||||||||||||
| Zofia Kostka | |||||||||||||
| Jan Karol Opaliński | |||||||||||||
| Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski | |||||||||||||
| Teresa Konstancja Czarnkowska | |||||||||||||
| Katarzyna Leszczyńska | |||||||||||||
| Catherine Opalińska | |||||||||||||
| Kazimierz Franciszek Czarnkowski | |||||||||||||
| Adam Uriel Czarnkowski | |||||||||||||
| Konstancja Lubomirska | |||||||||||||
| Zofia Anna Czarnkowska | |||||||||||||
| Remigian Zaleski | |||||||||||||
| Teresa Zaleska | |||||||||||||
| Anna Mileżyńska | |||||||||||||