House of Sorgo

The Sorgo (in Italian); known as Sorkočević in Serbo-Croatian) were a noble family of the Republic of Ragusa.

Known as di/de Sorgo, Surgo, Sorco and Surco in Italian, their name is derived from sorghum.

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 (di Redoni d' Albania antichi), 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.

Also, the following descent is known as well: Antun Sorkočević, born 5 July 1727, married with Lucija Bunić whose father Marius Medo was married to Marija, daughter of Luko Džono Sorkočević. His son Luko Božidar Frano, born 12 November 1776, married with Nikolada Gučetić, Melkior's daughter, was a father of Antun Đivo who was born on 30 August 1812. From the nobles Sorkočević-Crijević. Petar Ignjat (1746–1826) died in Dubrovnik without descendants. On 10 November 1817 in Graz, his aristocracy was acknowledged.

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, born in ?. 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-Sorkočević.

Nikola Mirošević-Sorgo, born in 1885 died September 1966 St Stephen's hospital in London. Ambassador to the Vatican for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during WWII. Minister in Exile of the Yugoslav cabinet. Son of Hermann von Mirošević-Sorkočević, eldest son in direct descent and head of the Sorkočević family, posthumously a published poet. Survived by his wife Dobrila Mirošević-Sorkočević (born Jefremović, 1889–1982), sons Branko (1924- ), Ivan (1926–1991), and Poznań (1931- ); grandchildren Nicholas (1954- ), Mara (1955- ), Mark (1957- ), Vladimir (1959- ), Andrej (1961–2000) from Ivan, and Antun (1968- ), and Isabelle (1971- ) from Poznań.

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