Pucić (family)

The Coat of Arms of the Pucić noble family, variation.

The Pucić (known as Pozza in Italian) is a noble family from the Republic of Ragusa, with origins in Dalmatia. The Emperor Leopold I, granted the title of Count and the predicate Di Zagorie on 20 September 1688 to Mateo Pucić, son of Lucijan Pucić and Marija Bunić. They are considered to have been one of the most prestigious families of the Republic of Ragusa.

Genealogy

Niko Mali Pucić
Rafael (Rafo) Pucić
Helena v. Ziegler-Pucić

Coat of arms

Pucić v. Zagorie. Blue with two gold cotices, alongside six fleur-de-lys same, posed each one bars some, lines in bands, the ecu bordered in rhombus of mouths. Crowned helmet.
Pucić-Sorkočević v. Zagorie. Left: to the 1, Blue with two gold cotices, alongside of six flower-of-read money, posed each one bars some, lines of bands (Pucić); to the 2, bandaged mouths and of Blue of eight parts (Sorkočević).

The Pucić brothers

Medo (Orsat) Pucić and Nikola "Niko" Pucić were two important figures in Serbian politics in the 19th century; Medo fought for the unification of Dalmatia (then under direct Austrian rule) with the rest of Croatia. Niko Pucić was an important politician and Pan-Slavic nationalist.

The family today

The family still exists in Dubrovnik, but it is not the old pure aristocracy anymore. Eugenia "Stane" von Ziegler - Pucicz married a commoner, Božo Koprivica in 1972, nephew of Niko Koprivica, noted Yugoslav diplomat, royal ambassador of Yugoslavia to the Holy See, knight of the Order of Pope Gregory the Great and wartime Mayor of Dubrovnik. He was killed by the partisans in October 1944 on the island of Daksa. Two of Eugenia's brothers also married commoners, so the rule of "Old Blood" does not imply anymore on the surviving members of the family. With these three marriages the family stopped practicing centuries old practice of inbreeding, mainly marrying first cousins and uncles and nieces. These marriages were approved by the local Roman Catholic Church because the family was very powerful and influential. It is noted that members of the family tend to have certain taste for Latin and Ancinet Greek, having eight generations of classical philologists.

See also

References

  1. T.d. VizeAdmirals i. R., Eskaderkommandant (1907-08)
  2. Nikša Gradić, committed suicide in her house in Gruž, he was sick of cancer. She and Nikša Gradić only had four daughters, one of them married with a Nasso member and one married with Count Dr. Joseph Cobenzl, this family live in Gruz-Gravosa house until today

Sources

Gallery

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