Cine s-a întâlnit cu August al II-lea al Poloniei?

Frederic Augustus I sau August al II-lea cel Puternic (în germană August II der Starke, în poloneză August II Mocny, în lituaniană Augustas II; n. 12 mai 1670, Dresda, Principatul Saxoniei – d. 1 februarie 1733, Varșovia, Polonia-Lituania) a fost elector de Saxonia (ca Frederic Augustus I) și rege al Poloniei și mare duce de Lituania (ca Augustus al II-lea). A fost o figură pregnantă a luxului de la curte și a absolutismului german în perioada căruia s-a clădit mult în stil baroc, a fost un colecționar al operelor de artă, Dresda devenind în timpul său o metropolă culturală.

În timpul domniei sale nobilii de la curtea sa se amestecă în războiul nordic (1700- 1721) război pentru hegemonie în bazinul Mării Baltice dintre Polonia, Rusia, Prusia și Danemarca cu Norvegia, război cu ghinion pentru Polonia și Saxonia. Neputința sa de a realiza reformele necesare în statul polono-lituanian au permis Imperiului Rus să-și extindă sfera de influență, politica lui fiind probabil una din cauzele războiului de șapte ani (1756-1763).

Erdmuta Zofia von Dieskau (1698-1767), was a Polish aristocrat. She replaced Marianna Denhoff as the mistress of Augustus II the Strong in 1719 and was replaced by Henrietta von Osterhausen in 1720.

Countess Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (Swedish: Aurora Königsmarck) (28 April 1662 – 16 February 1728) was a Swedish and German noblewoman of Brandenburg extraction and mistress of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Ana Katharina (Henriette) Rénard (1685 – 26 May 1721), was a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony and mother of his daughter, the later Countess Anna Karolina Orzelska.

Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (17 October 1680 – 31 March 1765), later the Countess of Cosel, was a German lady-in-waiting and noblewoman, and mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, in 1706–1713. Eventually he turned against her and exiled her to Saxony, where she died after 49 years of internal exile.

Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, divorced Princess Lubomirska, married Duchess von Württemberg-Winnental (Polish: Urszula Katarzyna Lubomirska z domu Bokum; 25 November 1680 – 4 May 1743), later Imperial Princess of Teschen (German: Reichsfürstin von Teschen), was a Polish-German noblewoman and mistress of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, in 1700-1705. In 1722 she married Prince Frederick Louis of Württemberg-Winnental.

Maria Aurora von Spiegel, born Fatima (born before 1686 – fl 1733), also referred to as Fatime, Fatima Kariman or Fatima von Kariman, was the Ottoman Turkish mistress of Augustus II the Strong of Poland and Lithuania. Fatima was one of the many Turkish captives during the Battle of Buda. She was brought to the royal courts of Europe, including Sweden, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Saxony, and trained as a lady-in-waiting.

Henrietta von Osterhausen (died 6 November 1727, Dresden), was a German-Polish aristocrat. She is known as the mistress of Augustus II the Strong.

She was a lady-in-waiting to the daughter-in-law of August, Maria Josepha of Austria.

She replaced Erdmuta Zofia von Dieskau as royal mistress in 1720. When the affair was over, Maria Josepha suggested that she become a nun. She did live for the Ursuline convent in Prague, but stayed there only as a guest for a couple of months.

She married Albrecht Zygmunt von Zeigut-Stanisławski on 22 February 1724.

Angélique Debargues, Angélique Duparc (zm. po 1724) – francuska tancerka, primabalerina, metresa króla polskiego i elektora Saksonii Augusta II Mocnego.

Zofia Eleonora Klengel (1674-1755), was a German aristocrat. She is known as the first known mistress of Augustus II the Strong in 1692–1695.

Anna Aloysia Maximiliane Louise von Lamberg (1676 – 28 June 1738), also known as Countess Esterle, was an Austrian countess who was successively the mistress of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, and Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski.