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Elected King: Augustus II (Friedrich August)
The 1697 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne.
On June 17, 1696, King John III Sobieski died in his palace at Wilanów near Warsaw, which meant that another free election was necessary, as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was left without a monarch.
Please use these sources to verify if a person was a voter during the 1696 election of August II :
Sources:
- Suffragia - the list of electors that voted in Wola near Warsaw on June 27, 1697;
- Elektorów poczet którzy niegdyś głosowali na elektów Jana Kazimierza roku 1648, Jana III. roku 1674, Augusta II. roku 1697, i Stanisława Augusta roku 1764, najjaśniejszych królów polskich, wielkich książąt litewskich, it.d.;
- Electors who once voted for Jan Casimir in 1648, for Jan III in 1674, for August II in 1697, and for Stanislaw August in 1764, the brightest of Polish Kings and Grand Dukes of Lithuania, etc. by Oswald Pietruski 1845.