Ignacy Potocki

Count Roman Ignacy Franciszek Potocki, generally known as Ignacy Potocki, (1750–1809), brother of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, was a Polish nobleman, owner of Klementowice and Olesin (near Kurów), Marshal of the Permanent Council (Rada Nieustająca) in 1778-1782, Grand Clerk of Lithuania from 1773, Court Marshal of Lithuania from 1783, Grand Marshal of Lithuania from 16 April 1791 to 1794, and a politician and writer.

He was an opponent of king Stanisław August Poniatowski in the 1770s and 1780s, and a major figure in the Polish politics of that era. During the Great Sejm he was a leader of the Patriotic Party and the reform movement and eventually backed the King in many reform project. An advocate of a pro-Prussian orientation, he helped conclude an alliance (March 29, 1790) with Prussia. He co-authored the Constitution of May 3, 1791.