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Nobility was inherited equally by all legitimate descendants in the male line. German titles of nobility were usually inherited by all male-line descendants, although some descended by male primogeniture, especially in 19th and 20th century Prussia (e.g., Otto von Bismarck, born a baronial Junker (not a title), was granted the title of count ...
Pages in category "German noble families" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 238 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
B Name Period Seat/Origins Canton Remarks Personalities Coat of arms Bart zu Koppenhausen The Bärtts of Kopenhausen Siebmacher 1605:83,13 Baurenfreund Baurenfreund Siebmacher 1605:89,12 Baymundt Baymundt Siebmacher 1605:99,3 Behaim von Abensberg 1120-vor 1681 Village of Behaim bei Moosburg, Abensberg, Freising House of Beheim von Adelshausen Behem von Adelzhausen Pehaim von Adelshausen Beheim ...
Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix ( von , zu , etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names ( Helmuth James Graf von ...
Directory of Nobility (German: Adelskalender) is a comprehensive directory of the nobility of a country or area. The best known such directory is the German Almanach de Gotha ("The Gotha") and its successor, the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels .
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.
European nobility took pride in displaying their descent. In the German language, the term Ahnentafel may refer to a list of coats of arms and names of one's ancestors, even when it does not follow the numbered tabular representation given above. In this case, the German "Tafel" is taken literally to be a physical "display board" instead of an ...
The publisher and editor of the new GGH publication is the Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs (publishing company of the German Nobility Archive). This archive of the Union of German nobility associations has always been the author of both GHdA and GGH. [12] In contentious questions, the German Nobility Rights Committee of this union decides. [13]