Wysoczański

The family coat of arms, "Wukry"

Wysoczański plural: Wysoczańscy (with by-names such as “de Weryha”, “Minkowicz” or “Pietrusiewicz”) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family, which traces its lineage back to Comes Vane Valachus who was granted land in 1431 by Polish King Ladislaus II. Jagiełło. Hereditary Chevaliers of Galicia (“Ritter”) since 1782.

Notable family members

• Łukasz Wysoczański, Polish Parliamentary Commissioner 1633
• Mikołaj Wysoczański, Sanok Sword-Bearer 1648
• Wacław Wysoczański, Member of the Polish Parliament
• Jan Wysoczański, Dobrzyń Sewer
• Albin Kazimierz Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia 1782, landowner, Member of the Galician Parliament
• Bazyli Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1816-1891), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner and philanthropist in Odessa about whom a biography was published in 1892 and a novel in 1930
• Bazyli de Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner, married to the heiress of the Laszki Dolne estate
• Wincenty Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, participant of the January Uprising in 1863
• Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1851–1913), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, Mayor, Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
• Kazimierz Józef Mieczysław de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1879–1944), 2nd Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, LL.D., Starosta, Government Commissioner
• Bronisław Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (born 1881), 3rd Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., novelist, industrialist, Honorary Consul of the Yugoslavian Kingdom, Commander of the Order of Saint Sava
• Włodzimierz Wysoczański (1883–1936), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, agronomist, Polish Cavalry Lieutenant of the 8th Uhlan Regiment Prince Józef Poniatowski, Head of Division at the Polish Ministry of Trade and Industry, Curator of State Mining in the Republic of Poland
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1897-1959), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Polish Major, intelligence chief in Casablanca of the Polish government-in-exile in London during World War II, deprived of citizenship by the Polish communist government
• Wiktor Wysoczański (1900–1940), Member of the Polish Parliament, murdered by Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940
• Maria de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (1924-2015), member of the Polish underground Home Army in World War II, recipient of the Golden Cross of Merit and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, daughter of Lt Włodzimierz, 3rd Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz
• Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1941), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., Director of the Education and Science, Sport Organization and Tourism Departments at the Ministry of Sport of the Republic of Poland, Director General of the Polish Athletics Federation, Vice-President of the Academic Sports Association of Poland
• Barbara Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (born 1949), Madame, Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing, wife of Chevalier Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, Ph.D.
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1950), 6th Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, artist
• Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1975), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., writer, art historian

Sources

• Almanach. Polska towarzyska 1926 La Pologne mondaine (Warsaw 1926)
• Czy wiesz kto to jest? (Warsaw 1938)
• Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczanski, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański (Kibworth Beauchamp 2016)
• Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczanski, Tomasz Lenczewski, Genealogy of the de Weryha-Wysoczański Family, in: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, vol 145 (Limburg an der Lahn 2008)
• Count Jerzy Sewer Dunin-Borkowski, Spis nazwisk szlachty polskiej (Lwów 1887)
• Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii 5 (Toruń 2005)
• Baron Georg von Frölichsthal, Der Adel der Habsburgermonarchie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Index zu seinen Genealogien (Insingen 2008)
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVI (Limburg a.d. Lahn 2005), Adelslexikon XVII, Nachträge (2008), Adelslexikon XVIII, Register (2012)
• Friedrich Heyer v. Rosenfeld, Ivan v. Bojnčić, Der Adel von Galizien, Lodomerien u. der Bukowina, in: J. Siebmacher’s großes Wappenbuch IV 14 (Nürnberg 1905)
• Sylwester Korwin-Kruczkowski, Poczet Polaków wyniesionych do godności szlacheckiej przez monarchów austryjackich w czasie od roku 1773 do 1918. Dalej tych osób, którym wymienieni władcy zatwierdzili dawne tytuły książęce względnie hrabiowskie lub nadali tytuły hrabiów i baronów jak niemniej tych, którym zatwierdzili staropolskie szlachectwo (Lwów 1935)
• Bronisław Minkowicz-Wysoczański, Wysoczańscy, Gniazdo i Ród 1380-1943, 2 vols (Lwów 1944)
• Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski 9 (Leipzig 1842) and 10 (1845)
• Poczet szlachty galicyjskiej i bukowińskiej (Lwów 1857)
• Polak w świecie. Leksykon Polonii i Polaków za granicą (Warsaw 2001)
• Sir Brooks Richards, Secret Flotillas, Clandestine Sea Operations in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic 1940-1944, vol II (London 2004)
• Spis alfabetyczny obywateli ziemskich Królestwa Polskiego (Warsaw 1906)
• Stephen Taylor, Who's Who in Central and East-Europe (Zürich 1937)
• The Peerage
• Demeter Więckowski, Basil Wysoczański and the new church in Wysocko Wyżne [in Russian] (Lwów 1892)