Duchy of Silesia
Mathias Franz was a descendant of an eminent and ancient Bohemian-Moravian-Silesian noble house well known in this region since the 15th century, with earlier origins leading from the Piast dynasty of Poland and a "Chorynski" branch of the "Abdank szlachta" nobility, in 1293 two noble Knight’s "Babeslaus de Chorinsky" and his son "Laticus de Chorinsky" served at the court of Henry V, Duke of Legnica and Duke of Silesia, seated in the Duchy of Silesia.