Braunschweig (Wroclaw patrician family)
The patrician dynasty of Braunschweig (also von Brunswic, von Brunswig ) is recorded in Breslau from 1311 to 1372 . Two family members were councilors on the Wroclaw Council.
The name of Braunschweig is not a title of nobility , but a designation of origin.
Tribe list
- Henricus / Heinrich de Brunswic († 1318), councilor of Breslau, is documented as consul for 1314. He was a merchant and probably the first of his clan to become a citizen of Breslau. He had a daughter and four sons:
- Hedwig von Braunschweig was married to Hans von Görlitz, the son of the Breslau councilor, in 1318.
- Johann von Braunschweig, occupied in 1319 as canon of the Abbey of St. Maria auf dem Sande .
- Gerko von Braunschweig, attested for the year 1311.
- Andreas von Braunschweig, priest, for the year 1311.
- Gisko von Braunschweig († 1350), also documented for the year 1311. From 1336 to 1345 he belonged, with one interruption, to the Breslau council as councilor and aldermen . He was married to Margarethe NN and had two children:
- Katharina von Braunschweig, occupied as a nun of the Trebnitz monastery from 1350 to 1372 .
- Heidenreich von Braunschweig is proven to be a citizen of Breslau in 1350. He was probably the last male descendant of the alderman family.
literature
- Rudolf Stein: The council and the council families of the old Breslau . Holzner-Verlag Würzburg, 1963, p. 78