The term edelfrei or hochfrei ("free noble" or "free knight") was originally used to designate and distinguish those Germanic noblemen from the Second...
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accumulated power and fiefs, at some point more than the Edelfrei knights. Poorer Edelfrei knights passed into ministerialis service, primarily to be...
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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...
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was the Emperor. They were the remnants of the medieval free nobility (edelfrei) and the ministeriales. What distinguished them from other knights, who...
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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...
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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...
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Countess Palatine of Bavaria. She was one of the two daughters of the edelfrei Lord Frederick III of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe, who died between...
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Knight Ritter Noble Edler/Edle Young Lord (Often grouped with Untitled Noble) Junker Unlanded Hereditary Knight / Free knight Edelfrei Untitled Noble...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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indicates that his family had imperial immediacy, either as part of the Edelfrei (nobili liberi, "free nobles"), the Germanic unindentured knightly class...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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hill castle Code CH-GR Height 822 m above the sea Site information Condition ruin Site history Built about 1000 Garrison information Occupants Edelfrei...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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(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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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were first mentioned in an 1127 deed. The first owners were the Swabian edelfrei Lords of Schelklingen, three brothers: Rüdiger, Adalbert and Walter, who...
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