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Schulenburg (surname) Schutzbar genannt Milchling family; House of Schwarzburg; House of Schwarzenberg; Sieghardinger; Siemens family; House of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich; House of Soterius von Sachsenheim; Sparneck family; Sponheim family; Starschedel; House of Stolberg; Stößner; Stülpnagel; House of Palatinate-Simmern
The German nobility (deutscher Adel) and royalty were status groups of the medieval society in Central Europe, which enjoyed certain privileges relative to other people under the laws and customs in the German-speaking area, until the beginning of the 20th century.
The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over Louis the German in 843 through to Wilhelm II in 1918. It shows how almost every single ruler of Germany was related to every other by marriages, and hence they can all be put into a single tree.
Their origin was an old Austrian noble family with the name Tättenpeck, who came to Bavaria and initially had their seat in (Ober-Unter-)Tattenbach which since 1972 is in the parish of Bad Birnbach (Rottal-Inn district). Christian von Tattenbach, German diplomat
German kingdom (blue) in the Holy Roman Empire around 1000. This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (Latin: Regnum Teutonicum), from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918:
German nobility can be classified three ways: by noble rank of title (Graf, Ritter, Baron, etc.), by the region of titular domain or possession, or by family lineage (for example House of Wittelsbach). Categorization ideally reflects all three aspects. Since 1919 nobility is no longer legally recognized.
In the Nordic countries, von is common but not universal in the surnames of noble families of German origin and has occasionally been used as a part of names of ennobled families of native or foreign (but non-German) extraction, as with the family of the philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright, which is of Scottish origin, or as with the family of ...
About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of over 100,000 people (including 130,000 "Ruhrpolen") immigrating westward from the Polish-speaking areas of the German Empire.