Michał Franciszek Sapieha

He participated in the campaign against Turkey of Emperor Leopold I in 1690, and then after John III Sobieski's Moldovian adventures [pl], returned to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1691.

In the spring of 1692 he was promoted to major general in the Habsburg army and in the years 1693–1694 fought in further wars against the Ottomans as head of the 47th Styrian Infantry Regiment.

From 1696 to 1700 he participated in battles against the anti-Sapieha coalition of Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński and of the Radziwiłł, Wiśniowiecki and Pac families in the Lithuanian Civil War.

That year the family lost its dominant position in the Grand Duchy as a result of its defeat in the Lithuanian Civil War.

After the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the family appeared in the list of persons authorized to bear the title of Prince of the Kingdom of Poland in 1824.