Hospod Name Study
Location: Grodzisko Górne, Leżajsk County, Rzeszów Voivodeship, Poland
Surnames/tags: Hospod Hospód Gospod
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About the Project
The Hospod Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Hospod name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Hospod name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (Poland, France, Ukraine, Germany, Canada, United States Hospod's), by time period (18th Century Hospod's), or by topic (Hospod DNA, Hospod Occupations, Hospod Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
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How to Join
To join the Hospod Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Tom Hospod V for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Geographic Distribution
The surname Hospod is exclusively native to the village of Grodzisko Górne, currently in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland; formerly in Łańcut Powiat of the Austrian Crownland of Galicia and Lodomeria; and formerly in the Przemyśl Powiat of the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Today, due to emigration, the surname can be found in Poland (166), Ukraine (120), the United States (76), Canada (4), France (3), Czechia (1), Germany (1), and Slovakia (1).
Most Hospods still in Poland today reside in the Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, and Wielkopolskie Voivodeships.
Etymology
From the Proto-Slavic gospodь, meaning "lord, host". The Old Polish word gospodzin means lord, landlord. Historically, the village of Grodzisko Górne was located in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland, where Ukrainian and Rusyn were spoken in addition to Polish, which influenced the spelling and pronunciation of the name to reflect the Ukrainian and Rusyn usage of the letter 'H' (Г) in place of the letter "G".
There are two potential direct etymologies for the surname.
The name may be a reference to the German village of Kospoda, which itself derives from the same Proto-Slavic root as discussed above, owing to the ancient presence and influence of Slavic tribes in modern-day eastern Germany (e.g. the Sorbs, Lusatians, and Wends).
Alternatively, the name may be a reference to the former Romanian state of Moldavia which, in Polish, was referred to as "Hospodarstwo Mołdawskie."
Y-DNA Analysis
Sequencing of the Hospod Y-chromosome yielded a haplogroup of I-FT245554, a subclade of haplogroup I-Z2541, otherwise known as the Anglo-Saxon-1313 haplotype, suggesting that the Hospod ancestors were closely related to Saxons who invaded Great Britain in the 5th Century. This group of Saxons lived in what is today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The "parent branch" of I-FT245554, I-FT246323, has origins in the former Duchy of Limburg and Duchy of Lower Lorraine - suggesting that the ancestor of the Hospod family migrated to central or eastern Europe as part of the "Ostsiedlung" of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Another member of I-FT246323 traces their origins to the region of Brandenburg, Germany. It is possible that the Hospod ancestor migrated initially to that area, then to Kospoda, as discussed above, Alternatively, it's possible that the Hospod ancestor was part of the Transylvania Saxons or Bukovina Germans who migrated to Moldavia, as they too had origins in the Duchy of Limburg and Duchy of Lower Lorraine.
History
The first two bearers of the Hospod surname to appear in Grodzisko Górne were Wawrzyniec Hospod and Mateusz Hospod - who were likely brothers, born in the early 18th Century. Their father was likely a Saxon soldier who came to Grodzisko in the early 18th Century from either Saxony or Moldavia (i.e. Transylvania Saxon). According to local oral histories, the first Hospod was settled in Grodzisko by the village's owners, the Lubomirski family, to replace a serf who had fled the manor. According to tax records for Grodzisko, the Hospod family owed fewer days of service to the lord of the manor than their neighbors, indicating that they received their land as free-tenant farmers.
The daughter of the first Hospod married Jan Pysz of Grodzisko Górne. They were the parents of Franciszek and Marianna Pysz, among others.
Mateusz married a local Grodzisko woman, whose name has been lost to history. They were the parents of: 1. Marcin Hospod (1739-1784) - [wife's name unknown] 2. Sebastian Hospod (b. 1740) - married Elżbieta [maiden name unknown] 3. Jan Hospod (1742-1802) - [wife's name unknown] 4. Tomasz Hospod (1746-1801) - married Magdalena [maiden name unknown] 5. Magdalena Hospod (b. 1765) - married Jakub Czerwonka 6. Franciszek Hospod (b. 1767)
Wawrzyniec married another local Grodzisko woman named Regina [maiden name unknown] (1742-1800). They were the parents of: 1. Sebastian Hospod (1760-1823) - married firstly Helena Elżbieta Tołpa; secondly Katarzyna Sanok; and thirdly Katarzyna Knyszek 2. Szymon Hospod (b. 1763) - married Regina [maiden name unknown] 3. Franciszek Hospod (b. 1765) - married Katarzyna Kordas 4. Magdalena Hospod (b. 1765) - married Tomasz Pysz
While many Hospod descendants remain in Poland today, many emigrated to the eastern parts of Galicia to what is today Ukraine during Austria-Hungary's rule over that region; the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and Canada, France, Czechoslovakia, and Germany during and in the immediate aftermath of WWI and WWII due to the brutal assaults on Grodzisko by Austria and Germany during those conflicts.
Historically Significant Hospods
Józef Alojzy Hospod (1861–1935), son of Wojciech Hospod (1810-1860) and Agata Hospod (1834-1900), known as "Chłopski Adwokat," or Peasant Lawyer, was an activist for the rights of farmers and agrarian people in the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period. He was one of the founders of Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast", the Polish People's Party "Piast" or Polish Peasant Party "Piast", a conservative, Christian Democrat political party that promoted agrarianism.
Stanisław Hospod (1912-1944), son of Michał Hospod (b. 1876) and Anna Filip (b. 1889), was killed in WWII by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which was carrying out genocide against Poles, Russians, and Jews. He perished in a massacre carried out in Basznia Dolna, a Polish village about 9km from the current-day border with Ukraine.
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