Zitzwitz, Zizwiz, Zitzewitz, Zittwitz, Zizewiz, Zitzevitz, Cicewitz, an old nobel family in Pommern, who also moved to Mecklenburg and Schlesien.
In Pommern they ruled and specialy in Lauenburg with the knight estates Klein-Libetow and Goddentop; in the principality Wenden with the estates Budow, Kottow, Muttrin, Alt- and Neu-Guggelow, Zitzwiz (originally family estate, where one Arrckel came from) Labehn, Dumrese, Gropitz, Cutzow, Gross- and Klein-Gansen, Gallensow, Daber, Klein-Podell, Klein-Crien, Bansekow, Zechlin (all in Stolpe) Berwig, Quartzow, Redchow, Teglib (all in Schlawe) Betzewitz og Brotzen (all in Rumelberg).
One branch:
1. Stefab von Nemitz * Dumaslowa
2. Martin de Sitzuitze + after 1347
3. Martin II. von Zitzewitz, b. bef. 1300, + after 1347 * NN von Below, b. abt. 1340
4. Jarislaw von Zitzewitz, b. abt. 1360, + abt. 1420, * NN von Podewils
5. Jarislaw von von Zitzewitz, b. bef.1410, + 1459 * NN von Kleist
6. Martin von Zitzewitz, b. 1425, + 1485 * Helena von Lettow
7. Kaspar von Zitzewiyz * Pelagina von Münchow
8. Jacob von Zitzewitz, b. 1507, + 1572 * Barbara von Blanckenborg
In Zedlers Universal-Lexicon is the family Zitzewits in Pommern dewided into 3 branches:
The Butrin, the Jannewitz and the Podel branch.
