customs in the German-speaking area, until the beginning of the 20th century. Historically, German entities that recognized or conferred nobility included the...

The Baltic German nobility was a privileged social class in the territories of modern-day Estonia and Latvia. It existed continuously from the Northern...

fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility), as both countries were previously part of...

Finnish nobility French nobility German nobility Freiherr Graf Junker Hungarian nobility Icelandic nobility Irish nobility Italian nobility Black Nobility Lithuanian...

The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a...

Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...

(Hungarian nobility) Reventlow (Danish/German nobility) Stolberg (German nobility) Tolstoy (Russian nobility) von Trampe (German nobility) Barons von...

name does not negatively affect the well-being of the child. Among German nobility, a fashion arose in the early modern period[citation needed] to give...

The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping...

1945. Following Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication and the German Revolution, all German nobility as a legally defined class was abolished. On promulgation...

inflow of German surnames. Two main channels of such migration were the absorption of territories where Germans constituted a part of local nobility, such...

Baltic Germans (German: Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea,...

represented the wealthy landowning German nobility and the Prussian Junker class. The party was a response to German unification, universal and equal franchise...

daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire and in its various successor...

House of Aachen was a German noble family, that originated from the city of Speyer. The family was closely related to the modern German major city of Aachen...

Danish "lensgreve" after 1671. Of course his German title - which left him in the Lower Nobility in Germany - should not be termed "rigsgreve" as explained...

dogs of German nobility. It is one of the two largest dog breeds in the world, along with the Irish Wolfhound. In the sixteenth century the nobility in many...

(feminine: Gräfin) is a historical title of the German nobility and later also of the Russian nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be...

(German: [ʔuːɐ̯ˈʔaːdl̩], German: "ancient nobility"; adjective uradelig or uradlig) is a genealogical term introduced in late 18th-century Germany to...

To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (German: An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation) is the first of three tracts written by Martin Luther...

Prince of Bismarck (German: Fürst von Bismarck) is a title of the German nobility. The German word Fürst historically denotes a sovereign ruler, and is...

attaching any such predicate unless to sovereigns of non-German states). Austrian (but not German) nobility is forbidden to attach honorifics to themselves or...

unique history and nobility. Typically, each canton had its own constitution, currency, jurisdiction, habits, customs, history, and nobility. In the Middle...

(born 2 June 1955) is a German physician. He was born into the von der Leyen family in Hanover, which belonged to the German nobility. Von der Leyen is married...

False titles of nobility or royal title scams are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without...

proclaimed by leaders of the local Baltic German nobility. The attempt to establish a new client state of the German Empire on the territory of what is now...

old and influential Baltic-German nobility, with branches belonging to the German, Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobility. Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg...

The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: bajorija, šlėkta, Polish: szlachta Wielkiego...

family of German origin, which was part of Finnish, Swedish, and German nobility. (number 18 in the register of the Finnish House of Nobility) The family...

(1700–1721), but left the local German nobility in control. Until the Russification policies of the 1880s, the Baltic German community and its institutions...