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The Buz family (also spelled Buze, Butze, Boz, Boze, Bautze, Bause, Buse, Buß, Boß, Bosse, Busse, Busch, Busche, or Pause) was a noble family whose name first appeared in the early 13th century.

History

Buz or Buze is the name of the family that appeared in the 13th century in the Mansfeld region. The pronunciation of the name was Bus, Buss, or Busse.

The name Buz originates from the Buzhan slavic tribe. The family was a wandering one, which moved beyond the borders of Saxony to the east, into the former Wendish territories (Neumark, Lusatia, Silesia) and to the northeast as far as Mecklenburg.

Mansfelder Line

The first person found in 1230 as a witness in a document of Countess Elisabeth of Mansfeld is Thodolfus Buz (Buss). In a Mansfeld document from 1262, Knight Rudolph Buze (Busse) appears, followed by Nicolaus Buz (Buzo) in 1264, and in 1268, the canon of Naumburg, Ditolfus Butz (Buz, Buzo). In a donation made by Count Burchard of Mansfeld in 1272, Thoderan Buze is mentioned as a witness. In 1271, Nicolaus Buze appears in several documents of Bishop Friedrich of Merseburg. He is also mentioned in a document of Fritz Gans of Querfurt, where he is referred to as Nicolaus Puz (with a note stating: "also Buz, Buze, Buse"). Rudolf Buz is mentioned in a document from 1298 when the Hackeborn siblings transferred the church in Bennstedt to the Helfta Monastery. In a Merseburg chronicle from 1309, Knight Rudolph Buze and his brother Johannes (Hans) Buze, the sons of Nicolaus Buze, are mentioned. When Albrecht and Ludwig of Hackeborn transferred 1½ hides of land to the Helfta Monastery on April 4, 1340, a Heynricus dictus Bosze is mentioned in the document. In 1379, Heyne and Rudolf Busse (Buze) sold a life rent from properties in Helbra to Sophie Kochstedt.

Querfurter Line

In 1317, Bruno von Buz is mentioned as a margravial and electoral official (ministerialis) when Margrave Waldemar transferred him to the Quedlinburg Church. A Dietrich von Buz owned a house in Stendal in 1326, as well as holdings in Garlipp and lands in Röxe. The Querfurt line continues to this day, though under different names, which can be attributed to variations in pronunciation among the population during the Middle Ages.

Neumärkische Line

The Buz family is first mentioned in the 13th century in the Neumark. In Neumark documents (for example, those of the town of Königsberg in the Neumark, located on the Oder, not to be confused with Königsberg, the royal capital and residence city in Prussia), a Nicolaus Buz and his son Rulecho are named in 1329. Rulecho or Rulekinus Buz and his sons Heinrich, Rulekin, Dietrich, Diedolph, and Gero, as well as Henningh, Theoderich, and Otto, also appear in a 1329 document. In connection with the village of Babin in the Neumark, a Helmrich Buz (Butz) is mentioned in 1338, and around 1400 near Königsberg, the brothers Dietrich, Jacob, and Anselm von Buz are referenced. In 1478, a Themar Butze lived in Feienwalde.

Posensche Line

A Paul Busse is said to have founded the village of Riege in the district of Deutsch Krone under Magdeburg law between 1550 and 1570. On July 8, 1596, he received a starost's document for the founding of the village as Paul Bursza, which was confirmed in 1600 by King Sigismund of Poland. He owned the largest mill property. His descendants governed the villages as **Schulzen** (village heads), served in **Fehmengerichte** (medieval courts), and later spread out into the region of Posen.

Bayerische Line

Whether this line descends from the previously mentioned one cannot be determined. However, there was a Siegfried von Buze who appeared as a witness on April 3, 1290, in Upper Franconia when Ekebert von Cunstat sold five estates to a monastery. A Leonhard Buz (church administrator) is mentioned in a 1366 purchase deed of Konrad Waldauer. In the governance report of the city of Augsburg, a Hans Buz appears in the Grand Council around 1635, and a Johannes Buz in the city court around 1649.

Notable Members

Heinrich von Buz (General) (1801–1876), German lieutenant general
Carl Buz (1803–1870), German industrialist
Friedrich von Buz (1815–1902), German general of the infantry
Heinrich von Buz (1833–1918), German industrialist
Franz Buz (1849–1916), Bavarian lieutenant general

Coat of Arms

Shield: A floating diagonal wall stripe with 4 battlements.

Helmet: None

Mantling: None

George Adalbert von Mülverstedt: *J. Siebmacher's Large and General Armorial in a New, Fully Organized and Richly Expanded Edition with Heraldic and Historical-Genealogical Explanations. The Extinct Nobility of the Province and Mark of Brandenburg.* Volume 6, No. 5. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1880, p. 16 and Plate 9 (Digital version).

Tyroff: *Armorial of the Entire Nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Extracted from the Nobility Register.* Volume 24. Verlag des Wappen-, Kunst- und Komm.-Bureau, Nuremberg 1866, p. 7 (limited preview in Google Book Search). [[Category:Saxon noble families]] [[Category:Families]]