Polemiki i dysyskusje: Mieszczanin czy rycerz? Przyczynek do biografii Heinka z Głubczyc
Polemics and discussions: A townsman or a knight? A contribution to the biography of Heinko from Głubczyce

Summary/Abstract: The character of the article is Heinko from Głubczyce, the first starost of Opava, a close co-worker of prince Mikołaj of Opava, publically active between 1331 and 1354, gone before 1357. This is a figure well-known by historians, but also controversial when it comes to his social origin. The researchers treat him as either a knight settled down in a town or a townsman being ahead of a knight in terms of his position. The author, arguing with Damian Halmer, deriving Heinko from the environment of the middle class in Głubczyce, shows his knightly status. He pays attention to the fact that it is only a Lubschicz predicate that speaks in favour of Heinko’s middle class origin. There is no document defining Heinko as a townsman, however, a diploma from 1352 places his name among the knights of Opava Land. What is crucial here is a knightly origin of Ramfoldus de Lubschicz identified by the author with Heinko’s son, and Heinko’s knightly family connections. The author rejects Heinko’s connections with the Stosz family, forced by the Czech historians, but associates him with equally influential families von Füllstein and von Reichenbach, though only on the distaff side. Heinko’s family origin remains still a riddle. Lords von Lubschicz, at the time of Heinko of a knightly origin, could come from hereditary mayors of Głubczyce at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries.

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