Known as de Sorgo, Surgo, Sorco and Surco in Italian, their name is derived from sorghum.
History
According to the Annals, the Sorgo was 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. They hailed from the Cape of Rodon, according to a later entry in the Annals. However, "Vita de Dobroslavo", the progenitor, is mentioned in 1253, and died before 1281. Vita had seven sons and two daughters. He had a son, Dobrosclavus, who was mentioned between 1274 and 1283, when he died. In 1527, Vlaho Sorgo, a patrician in Venice, recruited Jacobus Rizo as a doctor against the plague.
Niccolo I Sorgo, son of Giovanni Sorgo. Married Maria Resti. Their sons were:
* Nikola Marijan Sorgo
* Šišmundo Alojz Sorgo, which both ones1 December 1817 have been recognized. was married later with Magdalena Countess Pucić von Zagorie, their offspring were:
** Marina Marija Antonija Alojzija Sorgo, married Lucijan Đivo Dominko Vincenc Pucić. They had two children:
*** Matej Lucijan and Marija Dominka. Marija Dominka married Wenzel Ritter von Ziegler, k.k Lanadesgeriches. She had two children:
****Matej von Zigler-Pucić, date of birth and death unknown.
****Lucijan von Ziegler-Pucić , T.d. VizeAdmirals i. R., Eskaderkommandant between 1907. Married with Ana Marija Enriketa Countess Kabudžić in Dubrovnik on 10 April 1882. They had three children:
*****Helena von Ziegler-Pucić, married Hugo Theobald Alfons Karl Maria Freiherr von Seyffertitz, KorvKpt. i. R.
*****Marica von Ziegler-Pucić, date of birth and death is unknown, she married Charley Masjon, Linienschiffskapitän. They had one daughter:
******Winifred Masjon, married Laszló Harkay in Hungary.
** Tereza Gaetana Alojzija
** Đivo Jeronim Alojzije Anđelo
** Lucijan
Petar Marijan Sorkoćević, son of Đivo Vlahov, married Uršula Menzić. His nobility was recognized by the Austrian Empire on 1 December 1817. Remarried Marija Božidarević. Their sons were:
* Petar Ignac Nikola
* Vlaho Dominik
Nikola Vladislav Sorkočević, married Helena, daughter of Matej Martolica Zamanjić, on 31 August 1760. Their aristocratic status was recognized by the Austrian Empire on 1 November 1817. The sons of Nikola Vladislav and Helena were:
* Vladislav, married Nikola, daughter of Nikola Gućetić. They had four children:
** Helena Marija, married Natale de Saracca. They had four children:
***Paola
***Paolo
***Vladislao
***Orsato Maria Domenico de Saracca, married Rosa Cecotti. They had eight children:
* Matej Baltazar, married Magdalena, daughter of Nikola Đivo Bunić, and had six children:
** Nikola Stanislav
** Vladislav Ignjat
** Luko Ksaver
** Đivo Frano Marijan
** Marin Dominik Frano
** Paula
* Marin Paskal, married Helena, daughter of Melkior Gučetić. They had three children:
** Nikola Antun
** Melkior
** Antun
Luko Jure Sorkočević, son of Frano. Aristocratic status recognized on 10 November 1817.
Ana, daughter of Frano Jeronim Bunić, widow of Petar Sorkočević
Also, the following descent is known as well:
Antun Sorkočević, married Lucija Bunić whose father Marius Medo was married to Marija, daughter of Luko Džono Sorkočević.
* His son Luko Božidar Frano, married with Nikolada Gučetić, Melkior's daughter. They had children:
** Antun Đivo, from the nobles Sorkočević-Crijević
Petar Ignjat died in Dubrovnik without descendants. On 10 November 1817 in Graz, his aristocracy was acknowledged.
The Mirošević-Sorkočević family
In 1904 the Natali-Sorkočević 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. They had 3 children. By Imperial decree from Franz-Josef the 1st, on 5 January 1905, it was decreed that henceforth the family shall be known as von Mirošević-Sorgo
Hermann von Mirošević-Sorgo
* Nikola Mirošević-Sorgo , ambassador to the Vatican for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during WWII. Minister in Exile of the Yugoslav cabinet. Son of Hermann von Mirošević-Sorgo, eldest son in direct descent and head of the Sorkočević family, posthumously a published poet. Survived by his wife Dobrila Mirošević-Sorgo, née Jefremović. They had sons:
