The term edelfrei or hochfrei ("free noble" or "free knight") was originally used to designate and distinguish those Germanic noblemen from the Second...

accumulated power and fiefs, at some point more than the Edelfrei knights. Poorer Edelfrei knights passed into ministerialis service, primarily to be...

Brandenburg, the Junker was originally one of the members of the higher Edelfrei (immediate) nobility without or before the accolade. It evolved to a general...

was the Emperor. They were the remnants of the medieval free nobility (edelfrei) and the ministeriales. What distinguished them from other knights, who...

Cisleithania) and presidents of the Austrian House of Lords. The former edelfrei family was first mentioned as Ursperch in a deed of 1162 issued by Duke...

jung and Herr), and originally was the title of members of the higher edelfrei (immediate) nobility without or before the accolade. It evolved to a general...

Countess Palatine of Bavaria. She was one of the two daughters of the edelfrei Lord Frederick III of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe, who died between...

Knight Ritter Noble Edler/Edle Young Lord (Often grouped with Untitled Noble) Junker Unlanded Hereditary Knight / Free knight Edelfrei Untitled Noble...

medieval Burgraviate of Nuremberg. Conrad was a count of Raabs, a family of edelfrei nobility, named after their first castle, Burg Raabs an der Thaya in Lower...

Anno is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. He was born to the edelfrei Steusslingen family at Altsteußlingen (near Ehingen) in Swabia, and was...

in 1159. According to contemporary sources, Otto was born into a noble (edelfrei) family which held estates in the Swabian Jura. He was related to the Staufers...

until his death. Gottfried III was a member of the von Raabs family, an edelfrei family named after their first castle, Burg Raabs an der Thaya in Lower...

indicates that his family had imperial immediacy, either as part of the Edelfrei (nobili liberi, "free nobles"), the Germanic unindentured knightly class...

Egeno I of Konradsburg (also Conradsburg) was one of the free knights (Edelfrei) of Konradsburg, in the northeast of the Harz region of Germany, near Ermsleben...

von Graben (before 1300 – c. 1361) was a Styrian noble, a member of the edelfrei Von Graben family. He held the titles as Lord of Kornberg and Graben (near...

Conrad ruled alone until his own death. Conrad I was a member of the edelfrei von Raabs family. He was a son of Gottfried I of Gosham and a grandson...

name first appeared in a document of 1146 mentioning the free nobleman (Edelfrei) Helenger of Frankenstein. But the beginning of the castle is assumed to...

Conrad I, from 1105 until his death. Gottfried II was a member of the edelfrei von Raabs family. He was the son of Gottfried I of Gosham and the grandson...

hill castle Code CH-GR Height 822 m above the sea Site information Condition ruin Site history Built about 1000 Garrison information Occupants Edelfrei...

1234–1255) was a German Minnesänger (lyric poet). Gottfried was born to an Edelfrei family of Swabia. He was associated with the court of King Henry VII of...

Judith married Boto, the younger brother of Count Palatine Aribo II of the edelfrei family of the Aribonids. In 1070 h referred to himself as comes de Potensteine...

(Kurpark). In 1168 there is the first indication of a free aristocratic (edelfrei) line in Berneck with the mention of the Walpote, Uodalrich II. It can...

documented as Anegremislebo in a 1045 deed, then a possession held by the edelfrei Lords of Konradsburg Castle. In 1070 one Egeno I of Konradsburg accused...

(German: Friedrich der Jüngere), was a Styrian noble, a member of the edelfrei Von Graben family. He held the titles as Lord of Kornberg and Marburg,...

Schlössle is the burgstall of Bromberg Castle, built around 1200 by the edelfrei lords of Bromberg and which was reduced to ground level in 1824. Downhill...

Celle. As well as the ducal counsellors, who at that time were noble (edelfrei) vassals, a number of medieval court offices, who had emerged in the 12th...

the Duchy of Styria, Andreas von Graben was a descendant of the noble (edelfrei) House of Graben family. He was the son of Friedrich I von Graben (d. 1422...

hillfort. The castle was first mentioned in 1312 as the property of the edelfrei family of Schlüsselberg. A Henry of Neideck, however, was recorded as early...

the value of bracteates. The house of Dassel was certified in 1113 as edelfrei, i.e. knights not subordinate to any except the king or emperor. However...

were first mentioned in an 1127 deed. The first owners were the Swabian edelfrei Lords of Schelklingen, three brothers: Rüdiger, Adalbert and Walter, who...