What is "gutowski"

Gutowski is the surname of a Polish szlachta ( nobility) family who took her name from their villages Guty Magna and Guty Parva ( Big Guty and Small Guty ) ( Polish: Guty Wielkie and Guty Male ) in the Duchy of Mazovia.

The family belongs to the noble knights of the Slepowron ( ancient nobility ), one of the oldest family of the Duchy of Mazovia.

The noble family Gutowski of Guty was settled in Prussia ( 1505 ), Russia ( 1657 ), Austria ( 1783 ) and still exists today. To this generation belongs the old Prussian noble family von Drygalski (von Drigalski) - a line from the Gutowskis, after the acquisition of villages Drygallen, Schlaga and Wirsbinnen / district Lyck in East Prussia in 1505 changed its name to von Drygalski. Also the Rhau von Gutowski of Prussia belonged to this generation, the male line is extinct since 1919.