Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk Biography | Poet

Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk (10 June 1903–14 April 1997) was a poet, polemicist, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne. Born in New Zealand, he was the eldest son of Auckland architect Robert Wladislas de Montalk, grandson of Paris-born Professor Count Joseph Wladislas Edmond Potocki de Montalk, and great-grandson of Polish-born Count Jozef Franciszek Jan Potocki, the Insurgent, of Bialystok.