Welcome to the official website of The House of Saszowski von Schassowe. This website provides a short history from our House archive vaults. The House of Saszowski von Schassowe is a distinguished and venerable European noble house of Roman–German "fürstliche" (princely) origin. From one of Europe's oldest dynasties and medieval knights proper of the Holy Roman Empire.
Our family's long and illustrious history of over nine centuries originates from the medieval principality of the Margraviate of Meissen, where our main ancestral castle palace was seated within the Holy Roman Empire, in the northeastern border frontier region of the Kingdom of Germany.
Throughout the medieval period, our noble House continued to extend within the Holy Roman Empire from the Kingdom of Germany its territorial domains and eminence across the Crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the historical region of the Duchies of Silesia.
In historical writings and deeds, our noble House is recorded as distinguished medieval knights of Europe (mounted warrior knights proper), princely lords, knight commanders, royal ambassadors, and lord chief justices. We also held positions within the supreme advising privy councils, serving as trusted companions and courtiers to a succession of emperors and kings in their royal courts. Such as Conrad III, King of Germany (formally King of the Romans) and Italy, and Duke of Franconia; Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Italy, and Burgundy; King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia; King Ottokar II of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and Duke of Austria; King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland; King Casimir III the Great of Poland and Ruthenia; King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania; King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania; King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland and Sweden and Grand Duke of Lithuania and Finland; and Ferdinand I the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia, and Archduke of Austria, who personally requested us as trusted royal emissaries to the Vatican in Rome and Pope Paul III, and to Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. Our immense history and engagements over the medieval period also saw our family become one of the first members of northern European nobility to engage in diplomatic contact with the Mughal Empire in South Asia during the Renaissance period and the Age of Discovery.
Our relations and interests throughout history would also make family members from our noble House come into personal contact and friendship with many now historical figures in the arts and sciences, such as Michelangelo and Galileo. We were one of the first of northern European nobility invited as guests by Galileo to reside with his family at his home in Padua, Italy, for two years, receiving Galileo's personal lectures in physics, mechanics and astronomy, now known as the birth of modern science. Our noble House is also related to other princely houses of Europe; through esteemed matrimonial alliances with our gracious noble ladies, each related princely House would preserve their existence and continue to flourish.
Today, as tradition meets modernity, our official duties remain under the direction of the head scion of our historical noble House—Fürst Saszowski von Schassowe. In addition to our patronages of various causes, individual House members actively engage in diverse professional ventures. Beyond their business pursuits, they provide strategic counsel and serve as trusted confidants to a close circle of private and public figures from varied backgrounds. In both their professional and personal capacities, they uphold our centuries-old House motto in medieval Latin...
prudence is greater than fate
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