Hello, I'm again helping a friend with her Bourglinster, Luxembourg family and have a baptismal reco

bjschenck1

Hello, I'm again helping a friend with her Bourglinster, Luxembourg family and have a baptismal record that I can read except I am wondering about references to the godparents.

The godfather is Joannes Orth, described as "in servitius domino/a Dei Metzenhausen," and the godmother is "gratiosa domicella" Eva Maria (Theresia) de Copons modo [in Area?]. My questions are: does in servitius domino/a Die Metzenhausen" mean that Joannes Orth is a cleric in Metzenhausen? Is "gratiosa domicella" a sort of title (her father was baron, I believe) and I wonder if someone would take a look at the last two words -- after 'modo' --- and tell me what they see, because this is not a term after 'modo' that we have come across in this church register. I am attaching a copy of the image. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Barbara Schenck

carla ratcliff

Barbara,

Google translated " in latin "

A gracious lady for gratitosa domicella

 

Carla

bjschenck1

Thank you, Carla. Google Translate must like you better than it likes me. All I could get it to say was that gratiosa domicella in Latin meant excessive domicella in English. Somehow I knew they were missing the point. I did check 'gratiosa domicella' in Google's search engine and could see it was often used with baronesses and women of some social stature, but couldn't get it to define it specifically. Gracious lady works. Again, thank you.

Barbara

carla ratcliff

Barbara,

i also found this explanation

Meaning & History

Derived from medieval Latin domicella, which is the feminine form of domicellus, which literally means "little master" and was a term used to denote a young nobleman and/or junker. The term is a contraction of dominicellus, which is a diminutive of the Latin noun dominus meaning "master (of the house), lord".With that said, you might also want to take a look at the name DOMITILLA for comparison, as not only is it etymologically related, but it has occasionally also been found spelled as Domicilla and even Domicella.

Carla who knows?? Seems to fit with your idea about with a BAron etc

bjschenck1

Thanks for further interpretation! Yes, I think it fits. All the other women who were godmothers were just listed by name and "wife of" or "daughter of" -- but this seems to have a sort of title befitting someone of higher social standing than 'normal' in Bourglinster. Thank you, Carla. Best, Barbara