Braunschweig (Wroclaw patrician family)

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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

  1. 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:
    1. Hedwig von Braunschweig was married to Hans von Görlitz, the son of the Breslau councilor, in 1318.
    2. Johann von Braunschweig, occupied in 1319 as canon of the Abbey of St. Maria auf dem Sande .
    3. Gerko von Braunschweig, attested for the year 1311.
    4. Andreas von Braunschweig, priest, for the year 1311.
    5. 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:
      1. Katharina von Braunschweig, occupied as a nun of the Trebnitz monastery from 1350 to 1372 .
      2. 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