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Meduna di Pordenone family tree (partial reconstruction)

Domenico         Erminio 1528 Matteo 'da Bergamo' 1541         Defendente* 1556-1560 Alessandro 1517-1560, guardian of 123   Giovanni Antonio 1515-1549                     Maria (1602) Giovanni Maria 1540-1612, adopted (≡?) [Giovanni] Domenico 1546-1570 Giovanni Battista1 1548 Giovanni Maria2 1589 (≡?) Matteo3 16th century Francesco 1541-1577, testament                     Domicio 1584 Stefano †1605 Giovanni Maria 1616 Giovanni Battista 1574-1613   (...) Maria 1592 Liberale               Torquato 1586-1611, B.'s cousin Bartolomeo 1572-1636 Francesco 1572-1636 Alessandro 1572-1636

Meduna di Castelcucco family tree (partial reconstruction)

Jacobus knight in Treviso 1318       (...) 14th-15th centuries       Girolamo       Girolamo 1523-1557       Giovanni (Paolo?) 1562         Bartolomeo Dott[ore]   Girolamo Don Lodovico 1592, Rettore di [Montecucco?] 1605                 Innocenzo   Antonio   Giacomo   Don Paolo 1670, Parroco di [Montecucco?]   Don Francesco   Giovanni                   Girolamo Test[ator?] 1680 Girolamo Paolo 1715   Francesco   Lodovico   Girolamo                               Antonio Giovanni Pietro Valentino   Domenico   Pasquale   Giovanni Innozio   Giacomo   Giuseppe                                     Don Girolamo [unreadable note] Gia Batta   Paolo Lodovico Francesco   Carlo Francesco   Giovanni Girolamo   Antonio                                 Don [Giovanni] Paolo 1810-1835, Prevosto di Asolo 1830   Domenico Vincenzo   Giuseppe   Bonifacio Lodovico Innocenzo   Giuseppe Giacomo Giuseppe                           Stefano   Severo Carlo   Don Fortunato 1824-1857   Paolo 1848 Girolamo Valentin Girolamo                             Carlo emigrated to Brazil Vincenzo Eustacchio emigrated to Brazil Giuseppe Carlo emigrated to Hungary, 1821–1895 Francesco *1828, mayor of Castelcucco 1868 Antonio Napoleone Egidio Luigi Davide Antonio

missing: 1580 Giacomo, 1621-1642 Vincenzo

Lands of the Bohemian Crown

The first record of the name Meduna outside of Italy appears in 1373 in the village of Bohuslavice, in today's Jihlava District in the Vysočina Region of Czechia. A certain Mixo (Mikeš, Niklaš) called Meduna and his brother Swathon (Svatoň, Šwach) bought a feudal estate (manor) from Hron of Bohuslavice. However, this appears to be a nickname rather than a family name. Meduna as a definitve hereditary surname first appears in the 16th century in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, at a time when the Protestant Reformation heralded the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe.

Melissaeus priests

A family of Utraquist Hussite priests appears in the second half of the 16th century in North and Central Bohemia: Jakub Melissaeus Krtský (1554–1599), Václav Melissaeus Krtský (1540–1578), and Václav Melissaeus Lounský (c. 1573–1631).

Their surname "Melissaeus" is an onomastic latinisation (common in scholarly and clerical circles of the time) of the name Meduna resulting from the Ancient Greek Melisseus (Μελισσεύς), based on the local interpretation of the name being related to honey (med in Czech) or Melissa (lemon balm, meduňka in Czech). Several modern Czech sources revert to the non-Latin version and refer to the Melissaeus priests explicitly as Meduna.

The brothers Jakub and Václav were sons of Jan Aulehle, who owned a farm in the village of Krty (or Krty-Hradec).

East-Bohemian branch

When the Peace of Westphalia heralded the end of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Habsburg Empire begann to reassert their power and sought to re-Catholicize the Protestant-leaning Lands of the Bohemian Crown. In order to determine where best to focus their proselytizing efforts of the Counter-Reformation, a detailed census was needed. To this end, Patents were issued in February and June of 1651 that directed the Bohemian Estates to record the names and religious denominations of all persons within their dominions on standardized forms, referred to as the List of Subjects According to Their Faith (serfs register).

Of the 19 regions of Bohemia covered in the List of Subjects, a family of the name Meduna is mentioned only the Seč estate in the East-Bohemian Chrudim District. The estate was owned in 1651 by Emanuele de Couriers, who inherited it from his father François de Couriers, a French nobleman by origin and an officer of the imperial Habsburg army. He bought Seč (in 1628) and other estates cheaply as part of the confiscations following the Battle of White Mountain, after the previous owners who participated in the Bohemian Revolt were forced into exile.The dominions of Seč and Nasavrky (purchased by de Couriers in 1623) were among the least religiously united territories, with the share of non-Catholics exceeding 80%.

Region	Estate	Locality	Name	Year of birth	Description	Faith	Note
Chrudim	Seč	Bojanov	Martin Meduna	1621	podruh	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Bojanov	Magdalena Meduna	1620	wife of Martin	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Bojanov	Jakub Meduna	1633	son of Martin	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Bojanov	Václav Meduna	1636	son of Martin	non-Catholic	A
Chrudim	Seč	[Nové] Lhotice	Adam Meduna	1595	chalupník	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	[Nové] Lhotice	Lidmilla Meduna	1627	wife of Adam	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Jan Meduna	1620	sedlák	non-Catholic	B
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Anna Meduna	1630	wife of Jan	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Jiřík Meduna	1618	chalupník	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Kateřina Meduna	1629	wife of Jiřík	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Anna Meduna	1635	daughter of Jiřík	non-Catholic
Chrudim	Seč	Liboměřice	Václav Meduna	1613	sedlák	non-Catholic	C, D
Chrudim	Seč	Liboměřice	Kateřina Meduna	1625	wife of Václav	non-Catholic
ABC Entries also to be found in the 1654 Berní rula.D Secret protestant services were held in the Meduna barn in Liboměřice Nr. 8 until the Patent of Toleration in 1781.

Since the 17th century, this region developed as the historical epicenter of the Meduna family in the Czech lands, and to this day the name remains most prevalent in Chrudim District. Several existing branches of the Meduna family in Austria as well as the United States can be traced back to the East-Bohemian branch.

Only three years later, in 1654, the Crown ordered a record of all taxable subjects (property-owning population) in Bohema, known as the Berní rula. In addition to members of the Meduna family on the Seč estate recorded in 1651, the Berní rula mentions a Jakub Meduna from Vltava region and a Václav Meduna of Prague.

Region	Estate	Locality	Name	Description	Note
Vltava	Tejnice, Benice	Chrášťany	Jakub Meduna	zahradník	D
Chrudim	Seč	Křižanovice	Jan Meduna	sedlák	B
Chrudim	Seč	[Nové] Lhotice	Václav Meduna	sedlák	A
Chrudim	Seč	Liboměřice	Václav Meduna	sedlák	C
Prague	U Karafiátů	Žatecká street 42	Václav Meduna	komorník desk.	E
Chrudim	Seč	Licibořice	Havel Meduna	chalupnik
ABC Entries also to be found in the 1651 List of Subjects According to Their Faith.D About 10km north-east from Chrášťany, in the Petroupim municipality a forest, a stream, and a game reseve with the name Meduna (Meduny) are recorded as early as 1409.E See below.

Already in 1611, a certain Jakub Meduna from Přibyslav is listed as a resident of Prague.

In the 1640s, Václav Meduna, chamberlain at the tabulas regni, married into the U Karafiátů house on Žatecká (Kaprov) street 42 in Prague: On 21 May 1643, Jan Duchoslav Karafilát bequeathed the house to his wife Kateřina Barbora. After his passing, the widow married Václav Meduna and on 17 September 1646 she transferred the house to him. The confession registers from the parish of St. Valentine in the Old Town of Prague – compiled during the re-Catholization period of the Czech lands – list Václav to be 42 years old, and his wife Kateřina 46, both Catholic.

Meduna von Riedburg

One notable family descending from the East-Bohemian branch were the Meduna von Riedburg, who trace back their title of nobility to Johann Meduna von Riedburg. Descendants of this family today live in Germany and Brazil, where they emigrated at the beginning of the 20th century.

South-Moravian branch

emigrations: US, Brazil

1900s immigration to Vienna