an aristocratic origin and Grünhagen also held this belief. Pusch imputed descent from a merchant family, as he held his father Alexander to be a German merchant. Certificates show him as advocatus Wratislaviensis, in 1254 as leader of the Scabini Wratslaviensisgenannt ist. Recorded as second is „frater ejus Sifridus“, and the sixth Scabini was Gotkinus, the brother of Heinrich and Sifridus. All three were sons of the mayor Alexander und all three were jury members, before Magdeburg Law was introduced in 1261. It seems this had been adhered to prior to the introduction. He was awarded for his task of hereditary reeve with the Burgfeld and a mill. Three of his sons are known: Heinrich the Younger followed his father as seond hereditary reeve in 1262, in accordance with the Magdeburg Law introduced in 1261, holding this office until 1272. In 1275 it was superseded by Henry IV Probus and exchanged for the feudal estates of Lohe (today named Ślęza (Kobierzyce) with a castle built by Nicolaus von Waldau now named Dwór w Ślęzy) and Lukowitsch (Laugwitz, now named Łukowice_Brzeskie). After Heinrich acquired further possessions in Waldau, he henceforth named himself „von Waldau“ and became the progenitor of the ancient aristocratic family von Waldau, that is still extant but not to be confused with the more renowned von Waldow families mentioned in the German Wikipedia page "Waldow (Adelsgeschlecht)". Heinrich the Older had two further sons; Alexander Siegfried (documented in 1262) Gotke, who became the locator of Krakau, thereafter hereditary reeve of the Neustadt (new city) founded next to the Altstadt (old city) of Breslau founded his own family under the name of Stillvogt that provided four city councillors, including himself, of the City of Breslau, through four generations. Sifridus, with his brothers Heinrich and Gotke, he was a jury member in 1254 before the introduction of Magdeburg Law. Johann, likely died young. Konrad, received Rosenthal from his father and was the father of Zacharias, who, having no surname, married a daughter of Engelger, who also had no surname. Konrad was a citizen of Breslau in 1269 and consul in the City Council of Breslau in 1280, 1290 and 1298 and a jury member in 1293. He was the owner of a mill and the village of Sacherwitz (Zacharaie villa), today called Zacharzyce. He became a citizen of Schweidnitz (today incorporated in to Breslau) and his grandsons were the progenitors of