List of German noble families / F
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| Fabrice / Fabricius | a) since 1644 b) 1731– c) 1774– | several gentry families |
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| Fagana | 790 to? | Bavarian high nobility of the early Middle Ages | - |
| Fahrensbach | 1229-1725 | German-Baltic noble family that was originally part of the Rhenish nobility, Polish indigenous people in 1588, admission to the Russian nobility in 1627, imperial counts in 1677 |
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| Faimingen | up to 13th century | Bavarian noble family | - |
| Falkenberg | since 1250 | Hessian and East Westphalian noble families |
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| Falkenburg | 1041-1351 | Gentlemen from the greater Aachen area | - |
| Falkenhausen | since 1734 | Franconian-Prussian noble family that comes from the morganatic marriage of Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach with the falconer's daughter Elisabeth Wünsch, thus a branch of the House of Hohenzollern ; 1747 imperial baron status; Line Wald 1813 enrolled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the baron class; for a legitimized branch of the Trautskirchen line 1836 Prussian nobility, 1862 Prussian baron, 1894 name increase as baron von Friedenthal-Falkenhausen, inheritance of the property of Friedenthal |
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| Falkenhayn | since 1216 | old Saxon noble family; 1682 Bohemian barons; 1689 Bohemian count, 1690 imperial count (improvement of coat of arms) |
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| Falkenstein (Bavaria) | 1115-1272 |
 extinct Bavarian counts during the Staufer period; from 1125 counts of Falkenstein-Neuburg  |
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| Falkenstein (Harzgrafen) | 13th and 14th century | dynastic noble family in the southeastern Harz | - |
| Falkenstein (Hesse) | until 1418 | extinct, German noble family from the Palatinate |
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| Falkenstein (Hell Valley) | ? | Upper Baden noble family |
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| Falkenstein (Schramberg) | 12-15 century | Originally resident on the Baar, later Black Forest noble family | - |
| Falkenstein (Switzerland) | 1201-1568 | extinct Swiss noble family; Barons (1318) and Counts (1224) |
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| Falkenstein (Vogtland) | ? | Vogtland or Meißnisches noble family |
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| Faucogney | 12th to 16th century | Noble family of the Free County of Burgundy | - |
| Faulhaber | Since the 13th century | Franconian lower nobility | - |
| Fechenbach | 1214-1907 | extinct noble family from Fechenbach near Collenberg, Canton Odenwald and Rhön-Werra |
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| Filing | since the 16th century | German-Baltic-Swedish noble family |
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| Feilitzsch | since 1365 | old, Vogtland-Franconian noble family; 1847 Recognition of the baron status and registration in the Kingdom of Bavaria |
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| Feldmann | since 1567 | aristocratic family from southern Baden; Elevated to the nobility in 1567 |
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| Felgenhauer | since 1519 | aristocratic, Saxon noble family; 1624 Imperial nobility | - |
| Ferber | since 1704 | Mecklenburg noble family, knightly imperial nobility in 1704, Mecklenburg indigenous people in 1798 |
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| Ferentheil and Gruppenberg | since 1576 | Bohemian, Silesian and Prussian noble families |
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| Feringa | 8th century | early Bavarian noble family of the later Agilolfingian period | - |
| Heels | since 1535 | Baltic noble family from the tribe of the von Versen. 1674 barons for the Swedish line, 1750 for the Livonian line, 1755 for the Estonian line; 1712 Swedish counts for the Swedish line, 1795 Russian counts for the Livonian line |
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| Festetics | since approx. 1480 | old Croat and Austro-Hungarian noble family, originally from Turopolje dates |
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| Flint from Feuersteinsberg | until 1858 | old Vorarlberg, originally from Bregenz, Austrian noble family, which acquired goods in Bohemia and became a resident there; 1757 baron class; 1793 count status |
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| fuck | since 1769 | originally Franconian aristocratic family, which was later divided into lines in Baden and Upper Palatinate |
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| Flying | 1382 | German noble family from the ancient nobility of Bremen |
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| Fieger | ? | Tyrolean noble family, originally from the municipality of Fügen in the Zillertal, but later also wealthy in Upper Austria and Salzburg |
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| Finck von Finckenstein | 1451 | German noble family from the ancient nobility of Prussia; 1710 Imperial Count as Finck von Finckenstein |
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| Finckh | 1543 | Letter post office; 1543 knightly imperial nobility |
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| Finecke | 1293-1796 | old, dead Mecklenburg noble family |
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| Darkness | 1224-1572 | extinct, Frankish noble family |
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| Fircks | since 1306 | Baltic nobility; 1844 Prussian approval to use the title of baron |
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| Firmian | since 12th century | Tyrolean noble family; 1526 baron class; 1728 hereditary imperial count status |
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| Fisherman | since 1680 | Bernese patrician family that has owned the city of Bern since 1562 and is now part of the Ober-Gerwern Society; 1675 to 1838 tenant of the Bernese post office; 1680 Elevation to the hereditary imperial knighthood by Emperor Leopold I. |
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| Fischer-Treuenfeld | since 1694 | Sex from the resin; 1788/89 recognition of the Prussian nobility | - |
| Fisenne | since 1701 | 1701 imperial nobility for Georg Anton von Fisenne; 1827 Prussian nobility for Peter Georg von Fisenne; 1866 elevation to the Dutch nobility with the title Jonkheer for Pieter von Fisenne; 2001 nobility occupation for the Belgian branch of the family |
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| Flax landing | 1185-1839 | extinct, Upper Alsatian noble family |
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| Flanß | 1154 - after 1850 | extinct, male sex; Spread to Thuringia, Brandenburg, Prussia, Rhineland, Reuss, Prussia and Electoral Saxony |
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| Fleckenstein | 1129-1720 | extinct, Alsatian noble family; 1467 Imperial Barons; |
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| Supplication | 14th to 17th century | Swabian noble family |
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| Flemming | since 1209 | old, Pomeranian noble family; 1700 imperial count status; 1888 Prussian counts |
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| Flersheim | ? | lower nobility of the Electoral Palatinate in the Middle Ages and early modern times |
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| Flondor | 1432 | old, Moldovan boyars, 1914 Austrian barons |
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| raft | ? | Bavarian noble family |
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| Flotow | since 1241 | Mecklenburg primeval nobility; 1790 imperial count status; 1829 Bavarian barons for another line. |
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| Fölkersahm | since 1244 | Original nobility from Lower Saxony, later spread mainly in the Baltic States, Russian baron title in 1853 and 1862 |
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| Förtsch from Thurnau | 1239-1551 | old, Frankish noble family |
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| Foller | since the middle of the 16th century | Prussian noble family |
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| Ranger | ? | Egerland noble family | - |
| Forster from Philippsberg | since 1508 | from the later Grand Duchy of Posen, the postal nobility | - |
| Forester | 1245 (?) To? | extinct, Frankish noble family |
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| Forester of Gelnhausen | 1239-1814 | extinct, Rhenish baron family |
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| Franckenstein (Frankenstein) | since 1160 | noble-free, imperial direct gentlemen from the Odenwälder nobility, emerged from the von Breuberg family ; 1560 heraldic association with the dead von Cleen; Imperial Barons Vienna 1670; |
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| Frankenberg | since 1206 | Old, Silesian noble family, 1655 Bohemian barons, 1700 Bohemian counts |
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| Franking | since 1289 | Lower Bavarian nobility; 1605 imperial barons and Bavarian recognition, 1697 imperial count, 1698 Bavarian recognition, 1813 entry in the count class of the Bavarian aristocratic registers, 1839 Austrian confirmation of the count |
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| Frankopan | 1118-1671 | old Croatian noble family; Princes, marquises |
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| Fransecky | 1776-1930 | Probably from Hungary, first appearing in East Prussia, Prussian nobility in 1776, 1875 and 1915 |
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| Fraunberg | since 1144 | Bavarian nobility; 1630 imperial barons; |
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| Freckleben | two families: 1. an extinct, knightly ministerial family, 2. pawnbrokers at Schneitlingen Castle (Scheidingen) in Halberstadt Abbey |
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| Freden | 1142/58 to the 16th century | Lower Saxon nobility | - |
| Free from Treis | since 13th century | Rhineland, originally noble-free noble family |
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| Freiberg | early 13th to 17th centuries | Meissen-Saxon noble family | - |
| Freiburg | 1236-1444 | Descendants of Count Egino V. von Urach |
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| Frenz | 13th Century | Aristocratic family emerged from the House of Limburg | - |
| Frese | since 1222 | Noble family from Bremen |
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| Frescos | 1293 to about 1600 | old Westphalian noble family, vassals of the Counts of Arnsberg |
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| Freudenberg | 1250-1594 | old, Bavarian noble family |
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| Freundsberg | since 1122 | old, Bavarian noble family |
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| Frey von Treschklingen | 1319 to 15th century | medieval noble family with ancestral seat in Treschklingen, today part of Bad Rappenau in the district of Heilbronn | - |
| Freyberg | since 1237 | Noble, Swabian noble family with subsidiary lines Freyberg-Eisenberg , Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Hopferau and Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Hohenfreyberg . Since 1504 there has also been a noble family from Freyberg, which in 1909 received the royal, Anhalt-Köthensche nobility recognition. |
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| Freyburg | 1703-1940 | Mecklenburg and Prussian noble families |
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| Freydorf | 1781 | Baden noble family; 1857 Baden nobility recognition. |
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| Freyhold | since around 1750 | Prussian noble family of German-Russian origin. |
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| Freymann | since 1666 | Baltic noble family in former Livonia, later in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Germany |
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| Freytag from Loringhoven | since 1198 | Noble family from the ancient nobility of Westphalia |
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| Friderich von Fridstein | 1630-1730 | extinct Austrian noble family; 1630 Imperial nobility |
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| Friedingen | 1158-1568 | noble, Swabian noble family |
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| Frieze | 1248-1374 / 1379 | extinct Kyburg ministerial family in Switzerland; there are still three noble families from Fries | - |
| Noble from Friesack | 1256 to? | Brandenburg knight family | - |
| Friezes | since 1388 | first appears in a document in Franconia, later mainly in Thuringia and Saxony; 1653 imperial baron, 1702 imperial count; since 1842 one branch is called Freiherr von Friesen called von Leyßer, and since 1880 another Freiherr von Friesen-Miltitz |
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| Fristingen | 1220-1464 | Bavarian noble family | - |
| Fritsch | since 1440 | Saxon noble family. First published in the middle of the 15th century. 1730 aristocratic and 1742 imperial barons. |
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| Frohburg | 10th century to 1367 | extinct high nobility in north-western Switzerland |
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| Fronau | ? | Upper Palatinate, later Austrian noble family |
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| Froreich | in Pomerania since 1412 | German-Baltic and Pomeranian noble families |
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| Frydag | since 1198 | Westphalian nobility |
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| Fox | since 1218 | Franconian noble family |
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| Fuchs from Fuchsberg | 1267-1828 | Knightly Tyrolean noble family with the parent company Fuchsberg in St. Pauls-Eppan, which was later also located in Bavaria and Austria; 1602 as a baron, in 1633 as a count |
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Fugger / Fugger from the deer / Fugger from the lily |
since 1367 | Swabian noble family of the high nobility (including Fugger-Glött and Fugger-Babenhausen ); 1530 imperial nobility; 1514 imperial count; 1803 imperial prince |
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| Fugger-Wellenburg | until 1764 | extinct sidelines of the Fugger family |
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| Fulbach | 1235 to the 16th century (?) | extinct, Frankish and Hessian-Fulda noble family |
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| Fill stone | since 13th century | Moravian-Silesian noble family |
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| Five churches | since 1275 | Austrian noble family; 1698 hereditary count |
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| Fürer von Haimendorf | since 1295 | one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; Enrolled in the simple Bavarian nobility in 1813 |
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| Fürfeld | 1302-1471 | medieval local nobility of Fürfeld; Equal coat of arms with the Counts of Neipperg |
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| Furstenberg | since 1218 | Southern German princely family (not related to the subsequent barons of Fürstenberg from Westphalia) |
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| Furstenberg | since 1295 | Westphalian nobility; 1660 Imperial Barons; 1840 Prussian count status as Count von Fürstenberg-Stammheim and 1843 as Count von Fürstenberg-Herdringen; 1887 Belgian nobility naturalization as Comte de Furstenberg. |
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| Furstenberg | 1348-1363 | Otto and Ulrich von Dewitz were raised to the rank of count as "greve tho Vorstenberghe" |
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| Fürstenbusch | until 1837 | extinct nobility of the Duchy of Jülich; the counts (Austrian) line presumably a morganatic line of the elector Philipp Wilhelm von der Pfalz, duke of Jülich-Berg (* 1615, † 1690); 1690 imperial recognition of the old nobility, 1702 confirmation of the hereditary austrian. Nobility, 1707 Hungarian old gentry, 1715 Hungarian indigenous, 1736 Bohemian count |
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| Fürstenstein (also Camus von Fürstenstein) | since 1812 | noble noble family from the former Kingdom of Westphalia |
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