Maria Józefa Sobieska

Maria Józefa Sobieska née Wessel (1685-1761), was a Polish princess, daughter-in-law of king John III Sobieski.

Maria Barbara had been the royal governess of Princess Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676–1730), one of the daughters of John III Sobieski.

[1] In the spring of 1727, Maria Józefa entered into a contract with her brother-in-law James Louis Sobieski under which, for the next year and a half, she was to manage the Prince Konstanty's estates in Żółkiew, now Zhovkva in Ukraine, Pomorzany, and Tarnopol.

In January 1729, Maria Józefa left Zhovkva to live in Lwów, also now in Ukraine, and from there she moved on to Pilica, Upper Silesia, where she bought a castle and thirteen neighboring villages.

[7] In 1753, Maria Józefa sold her estates to a nephew, Teodor Wessel, and returned to living in the Convent of the Holy Sacraments at Warsaw.