The Pucić family, 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 "de Zagorie" on 20 September 1688 to Matej 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. They are one of the few families whose descendants, coupled with the last members of the House of Sorkočević, have the pure noble blood to this day.
Genealogy
Matej Pucić and Marija Bunić had two sons:
*Lucijan Pucić, had a son Mattäus
*Nikola Mateo Pucić, married Magdalena Gučetić on 1 November 1727. They had three sons.
Mateo Nikola Pucić, married Marija Magdalena Vincenca Bondić in Dubrovnik on 17 April 1768. Their sons were:
*Marija Pucić, date of birth and death unknown, married Nikola Pucić.
*Lucijan Jakov Dominik Vincenc Pucić, married with Marina Marija Antonia Alojzija Sorkočević. Attained first confirmation of his old aristocracy after the fall of the Republic of Dubrovnik, on 1 December 1817, the other two Pucić received their confirmation of their k.k. nobility 30 November 1817 and all three together again 28 November 1818. They had two sons:
**Matej Lucijan Pucić
**Marija Domenika Pucić, who married with Wenzel Ritter von Ziegler born in Graz 11 October 1810 and died in Trieste 4 September 1896. They had one son:
***Lucijan von Ziegler-Pucić, married Ana-Marija Enriketa Lujza Countess Kabudžić on 20 June 1858, died in 1944 in Szombathely, Hungary. They were married in Dubrovnik on 10 April 1882 and had three children:
****Helena von Ziegler-Pucić, married Hugo Theobald Alfons Karl Maria Freiherr von Seyffertitz, who was born in Brixen 23 September 1885 and died in Baden, Viena, on 10 June 1966.
****Marica von Ziegler-Pucić married with Charley Masjon, who was born in Graz, on 19 November 1871 and died in 1950, in Táplánszentkereszt, Hungary. They had one daughter, Winifred Masjon, who was born in Pula on June 8, 1911 and died in Keszthely. On 14 December 1998 she married László Harkay and lived in Hungary.
Lucijan Nikola Pucić, married Descae Sorkočević, they had two sons:
*Nikola Lucijan Pucić, he was one of the last senators of the Republic of Dubrovnik, and married with Helene Maria Ragnina from Dubrovnik, she was a famous musician, They had two children:
**Marina Pucić,, married Matej Natali on 4 August 1866.
**Lucijan, date of birth and death unknown.
Magdalena Pucić married Šišmundo Đivo Sorkočević. She received the authorization for the usage of the name with the coat of arms: "Pucić-Sorkočević de Zagorie" on 8 December 1806 by testament from her mother's line, from grandfather Marko Đivo Nobil Sorkočević 1 December 1817 the ennobling and as k. k. Nobile and 28 November 1818 the k. k. aristocracy confirmation with the count conditions were met.
Nikola Ignjat Pucić, married Ana Sorkočević on 17 January 1783. They had four children:
*Nikola Alojz Dominko Pucić, married 1816 with Magdalena Gučetić. They had six children.
**Nikola Sever
Ana Pucić, married Savo Đurđević, Ana and Savo had one daughter:
Rafael Pucić, lawyer and Mayor of Dubrovnik and elected two times into the Dalmatian Parliament. He was born 29 February 1828 and died on 4 November 1890 in Vienna.
Marina Pucić
Marko Pucić
Magdalena Pucić who married with Nikola Gradi, who was k.k Kamemerer and tribunalrath of Kotor.
*Marko Alojz Dominko Pucić, married Ana Bondić, who died October 6, 1855 in Dubrovnik. They had four children:
**Niko Pucić
**Medo Pucić
**Nikola Paskval Pucić was born 18 May 1825 and died on 13 March 1882, in Gruz.
**Ana Pucić, married 7 February 1858 with Dr Marin Đurđević in 1857.
*Matej Baltazar, died unmarried.
*Lucijan Toma Natal Maro Frano, died unmarried. On 1 December 1817, the k. k. Ennobling and as Nobili and 28 November 1818 the k. k. Confirmation of the count conditions were received. The three sons already mentioned of Matej, the son Lucijans in addition and the four sons of the Nikola Ignjat received on 23 May 1819, a k again a confirmation of count status.
* Marija Charlotte Petrunjela Pucić married Austrian count and her first cousin Ferdinand von Sorgo and had six children, Eugenia Anastasia, Giancarlo Ruprecht, Pietro Sigismundo, Nicola Marino, Ingeborg Jelena and Alice Marie Paulina. Her daughter Eugenia later married a Hungarian count Ferenc Esterhazy and had a son named Johann Esterhazy von Ziegler - Pucicz, later married Božo Koprivica, member of an old Dubrovnik common family with large land holdings in Konavle. They have a son named Nikša who is a junior minister in the Croatian Ministry of Defence and one of the fighters in the Battle for Dubrovnik in 1991.
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 ; to the 2, bandaged mouths and of Blue of eight parts.
Pucić-Sorkočević de 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 ; to the 2, bandaged mouths and of Blue of eight parts.
The Pucić brothers
and Niko Pucić were two important figures in Croatian and Serbian politics in the 19th century; Medo fought for the unification of Dalmatia 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" Pozza - Sorgo 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 Ancient Greek, having eight generations of classical philologists.
