Ossorio etimology:
The old Galician pre-Roman territorial division would not change in much in the suebian age and
from this territorial concept arise the greatest Houses of the feudal Galicia (Lemos < Lemavi; Trastámara <> Transtamara:
cf. Supertamarici, Praestamarici).
The origin of surname Ossorio goes back towards the 8th century. It is known his participation
in Covadonga's facts (in ex Gallaecia fines, today Asturies) and as Liertenant of the King Don Pelayo. The family seat and his
ancestral home was Mondoñedo (Lugo, Galicia). Soon to be linked with the other Great Houses of Galicia: with Traba's House (counts
of Trastámara, NW province of A Corunna, Galicia) and later with Lemos's House (Monforte and Sarria, Lugo, Galicia).
With
this lineage to be born the kings of Castile. León, Galicia and Portugal, and linked with the kings of Aragon and the
Counts of Barcelona. The most important royal households of Europe take his blood.
Ossorio might derive from the celtic word *oss
'deer' whose an exact meaning is not clear: cf. irl. Osraigh (old kingdom and today diocese of Ossory), irish PN Ossian;
gaulish GN OSI, OSISMII; lus. GN OSSONOB(ENSI) from Faro; gaulish PN OXILLA, OSSILIA, OSSILA, interpreted in DLG 245 from
the root ie. *oxso- 'boeuf (haute?)'. For other authors it means ' remote, extreme '.
Princess of Brieg-Luben
Great Duchess of Pomerania
Countess of Opatowitz, Carniola, Neusandez and Bordeaux
Marchioness
of the Bohemia Duchy
Viscountess of Friedland and of the Westbernhaven Duchy
Baroness of Strehlen, Sagan and Oldenburg
The palace of the princess Teresya of Brieg-Luben, in northern Pomerania (Brandenburg).
Built in the 17th century, it was
a residence of the Prussian family Briegel-Lubinsky.
