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Between 1819 and 1900, a number of titles were conferred on Jews. Of a sample of 700 German nobles created during this period, 62 were Jewish. [2] Auerbach; Bleichröder; Collen/Cölln; Diane von Fürstenberg (née Halfin) Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg. Talita von Fürstenberg; Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg; Gil; Goldschmidt-Rothschild ...
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 extending to all his male-line descendants, and later that of prince in ...
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 .
The actual rank of a title-holder in Germany depended not only on the nominal rank of the title, but also the degree of sovereignty exercised, the rank of the title-holder's suzerain, and the length of time the family possessed its status within the nobility (Uradel, Briefadel, altfürstliche, neufürstliche, see: German nobility).
Aachen (German nobility) House of Absberg; Adelebsen (German noble family) Ahlefeldt (noble family) Albertine branch; Althann; House of Alvensleben; Ambly des Ayvelles; Ammendorf family; Amsberg; Arco family; Arenstorff; Arnim family; Arz von Wasegg; House of Asseburg
The inheritance of titles of nobility in most German-speaking areas was not restricted by primogeniture as is the baronial title in Britain. Hence, the titles applied equally to all male-line descendants of the original grantee in perpetuity: All legitimate sons of a Freiherr shared his title and rank, and could be referred to as Freiherr.
The jurisdiction of a landgrave was a landgraviate (German: Landgrafschaft), and the wife of a landgrave or a female landgrave was known as a landgravine (from the German Landgräfin, Gräfin being the feminine form of Graf) The term was also used in the Carolinas (what is now North and South Carolina in the United States) during British rule ...
The masculine form is Edler. Edler: Regarding personal names: Edler was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as a noble (one). Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke).