The Kopaynski or Kopanski (Polish: Kopański) family is a descendant of a Silesian noble family, first mentioned in Roman Catholic scripts in 931 through Count (Graf) Carl Friedrich Kopański. 1250 Members of the Polish Szlachta. 1772 Raised into the

Prussian aristocracy The Junkers ( ; ) were members of the landed nobility in Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia. They owned great estates that were maintained and worked by peasants with few rights. These estates often lay in the countryside outside of major cities or towns ...

by King Frederick the Great (Friedrich II, r. 1740-86).Bd.V-IX-X, Limburg 1998, S.107. 1806 mediatised Silesia The Expulsion of Germans after World War II led the House of Kopanski to flee into exile to Germany ( Baden-Wuerttemberg). The last two living descendants are Veronika Therese Countess von Kopanski and Marianne von Kopanski. Since 1956 the family has resided near Stuttgart.

Lines of the family

* Schneider-Kopanski * Kopanski (Stuttgart line)

References

Silesian nobility Polish noble families {{Poland-bio-stub