Sorkočević (family)

Coats of arms of the House of Sorkočević
Coat of arms of the House of Sorkočević-Crijević

The Sorkočević (in Croatian) or Sorgo (in Italian) were a noble family from Dubrovnik, founded in the Republic of Ragusa.

Name

Known as di/de Sorgo, Surgo, Sorco and Surco in Italian, their name is derived from sorghum.[1]

History

According to the Annals, the Sorkočević were a grain-trading and ship-owning family who immigrated from Albania via Kotor in 1272, and were ennobled in 1292 after bringing sorghum during a famine.[1] They hailed from the Cape of Rodon (di Redoni d' Albania antichi), according to a later entry in the Annals.[2] However, "Vita de Dobroslavo", the progenitor, is mentioned in 1253, and died before 1281.[3] Vita had seven sons and two daughters.[4] He had a son, Dobrosclavus, who was mentioned between 1274 and 1283, when he died.[3]

In 1527, Vlaho Sorkočević, a patrician in Venice, recruited Jacobus Rizo as a doctor against the plague.[5]

Austrian branch

The palace of the Sorkočević family in Dubrovnik

Also, the following descent is known as well: Antun Sorkočević, born 5 July 1727, married with Lucija Bunić whose father Marius Medo was married to Marija, daughter of Luko Džono Sorkočević. His son Luko Božidar Frano, born 12 November 1776, married with Nikolada Gučetić, Melkior's daughter, was a father of Antun Đivo who was born on 30 August 1812. From the nobles Sorkočević-Crijević. Petar Ignjat (1746–1826) died in Dubrovnik without descendants. On 10 November 1817 in Graz, his aristocracy was acknowledged.

Mirošević-Sorgo

The Mirošević-Sorgo coat of arms.

In 1904 the Natali-Sorgo family became extinct which left the second daughter as the eldest living descendant in direct descent with the name. She was already married to the Dubrovnik port captain and mariner, Hermann von Mirošević, with whom she had 3 children. By Imperial decree from Franz-Josef I, on 5 January 1905, it was decreed that henceforth the family shall be known as von Mirošević-Sorgo.

Nikola Mirošević-Sorgo,[6] born in 1885 died September 1966 St Stephen's hospital in London. Ambassador to the Vatican for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during WWII. Minister in Exile of the Yugoslav cabinet. Son of Hermann von Mirošević-Sorkočević, eldest son in direct descent and head of the Sorkočević family, posthumously a published poet. Survived by his wife Dobrila Mirošević-Sorkočević (born Jefremović, 1889–1982), sons Branko (1924- ), Ivan (1926–1991), and Poznań (1931- ); grandchildren Nicholas (1954- ), Mara (1955- ), Marko (1957- ), Vladimir (1959- ), Andrej (1961–2000) from Ivan, and Antun (1968- ), and Isabelle (1971- ) from Poznań.

Notable members

Gallery

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Oleh Havrylyshyn; Nora Srzentiæ (10 December 2014). Institutions Always 'Mattered': Explaining Prosperity in Mediaeval Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-137-33978-2.
  2. ↑ Milorad Medini (1935). Starine Dubrovačke. Štamparija "Jadran". p. 97. Sorkočevići su po Analima došli u Dubrovnik god. 1272 , a to ne može biti, jer Marina Viitova Sorkočević nalazimo u Dubrovniku već god. 1269. Što se tiče njihova podrijetla, očito je u Popisu »di Redoni d' Albania antichi« kasniji dodatak po Analima, ...
  3. 1 2 Recueil de travaux de l'institut d'études byzantines. Institut. 1966. У породици СоркочевиЬ (Sorkočević) спомшье се 1253. г. родоначелник „Vita de Dobroslavo", kojh je умро пре 1281. г. Ово сва- како значи да je ¡едан Доброслав живео у npeoj половини XIII века. Сем тога, наведени Вито имао je сина „Dobrosclavus-a", kojh се спомише од 1274. до 1283. г., када je умро.
  4. ↑ Susan Mosher Stuard (1992). A state of deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the medieval centuries. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3178-6. The stalwart progenitor of the Sorkočević line, Vita de Dobroslavo (flourished 1253- 1281) and his stalwart but unfortunately nameless wife produced seven surviving sons and at least two daughters, a record not matched in subsequent generations ...
  5. ↑ Zlata Blazina Tomic; Vesna Blazina (1 April 2015). Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533. MQUP. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-7735-9712-9.
  6. ↑ Owen Chadwick (24 June 1988). Britain and the Vatican During the Second World War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-0-521-36825-4.

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