Cezary Augustyn Broel-Plater: Plater Genealogy

Gen.XIII

Part owner of Dusiat with his brother Wladyslaw and of the Holot estate in the Wilkomierz district which included the villages Holot or Oloto, Slepsciszki, Bugajliszki and Druskie. Very active in the November 1830 uprising; appointed a Captain of the 4th Squadron of the 6th Horse Regiment of the Line. Arriving in Warsaw in 1831 he was appointed to Parliament as a representative of the Vilna district and was a signatory to the Act of Dethronement of Nicholas I. In August 1831 he received the Gold Cross of Virtuti Militari. After failure of the cause he emigrated to Paris. All of his estates were confiscated but like his brother, he received considerable financial assistance from his mother. He was among the leaders in Polish patriotic and other activities in Paris and assisted his countrymen to obtain subsistence from the French government. He was an envoy of Pr. Adam Czartoryski to Rome in 1838 where he remained until 1844, advising the Holy See about the affairs of the church in Poland. He contributed liberally to the foundation by his brother of the Museum at Rapperswil. He purchased the Gora estate near Srem which became his residence. He secured by his marriage to his first wife the inheritance of the Nieklan, Bialaczow, Chewiska estates and others in the Radom province for their sons. His name was engraved on a tablet at the Polish Library in Paris.

Photos		Cezary Broel-Plater. Lithograph by de Villain according to the drawing of Lecler. Paris 1832.

Notes	Gen.XIII Part owner of Dusiat with his brother Wladyslaw and of the Holot estate in the Wilkomierz district which included the villages Holot or Oloto, Slepsciszki, Bugajliszki and Druskie. Very active in the November 1830 uprising; appointed a Captain of the 4th Squadron of the 6th Horse Regiment of the Line. Arriving in Warsaw in 1831 he was appointed to Parliament as a representative of the Vilna district and was a signatory to the Act of Dethronement of Nicholas I. In August 1831 he received the Gold Cross of Virtuti Militari. After failure of the cause he emigrated to Paris. All of his estates were confiscated but like his brother, he received considerable financial assistance from his mother. He was among the leaders in Polish patriotic and other activities in Paris and assisted his countrymen to obtain subsistence from the French government. He was an envoy of Pr. Adam Czartoryski to Rome in 1838 where he remained until 1844, advising the Holy See about the affairs of the church in Poland. He contributed liberally to the foundation by his brother of the Museum at Rapperswil. He purchased the Gora estate near Srem which became his residence. He secured by his marriage to his first wife the inheritance of the Nieklan, Bialaczow, Chewiska estates and others in the Radom province for their sons. His name was engraved on a tablet at the Polish Library in Paris.