List of German noble families / J

J

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Yeah	since 1488	Cologne patrician family; 1488 Imperial nobility
Jabilinze and Belzig	1106-1251	Counts on the middle Elbe and the lower Saale	-
Jaegersfeld	since 1725	Prussian noble family, originating from illegitimate descendants of Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt, thus a branch line of the House of Hohenzollern ; two lines: Oldenburg and USA
Jagow	since 1286	Old Markian nobility
Jaroszynski	since 1629	Polish-Ukrainian noble family, 1674 Polish nobility; 1884 Confirmation as Austrian nobility with "Edler von Jaroszynski" and the Korczak coat of arms
Jasmund	1320 to?	originally, a noble family from Rügen, which spread to Pomerania, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark.
Jatzkow	(1485) 1523 to 18th century	Pomeranian-Lauenburg noble family
Jeanneret de Beaufort	since 13th century	Originally from Italy and France, nobility and barons who later came to Switzerland and the Netherlands	-
Jeetze	1279 to?	An old noble family from the Altmark, which later spread to Silesia.
Jegistorf	1131 to 14th century	extinct ministerial family from Jegenstorf; Vassals of the Zähringer	-
Yes and no	since 1213	old, Lower Saxon noble family
Jelačić	since 1388	old Croatian noble family; 1797 barons, 1854 counts
Jemgum	1335 to the 18th century	East Frisian chiefs, later Westphalian noble family
Jena	since 1145	Thuringian nobility; 1851 Baron status
Jenisch	since the 14th century	Originally from the Augsburg council family with branches in Augsburg, Kempten, Memmingen, Hamburg and Württemberg (the Hamburg branch in the male line expired and continued as barons of Jenisch since 1906 by the Rücker family, who came from a daughter line and originally came from Berlin )
Jenner	since 1716	Bernese patrician family, which was founded in 1716 by Emperor Charles VI. was raised to the nobility
Jesenský	since 1274	Primeval noble family with possessions in the Kingdom of Hungary ( Slovakia ) and in Bohemia	-
Jochberg	since 15th century	Swiss noble family
Joner on Tettenweis	since 1420	Bavarian noble family from Alsace
Jörger from Tollet	13th century to 1772	Noble family from Upper Austria; 1577 barons and 1657 counts
Jossa	1176 to the 13th century (?)	extinct, noble sex	-
Julbach	since 1078	Bavarian noble family	-
to the boy	since the middle of the 13th century	Patrician family in Mainz and Frankfurt
Juncker of Oberkunreuth	?	Patrician family of the imperial city of Eger; 1483 confirmation of aristocratic origins; 1741 imperial barons in the Bavarian imperial vicariate; 1840 Herbländisch-Bohemian baron	-
Jutrzenka (morning star)	since 1515	Pomeranian noble family; 1799 Prussian nobility recognition