List of German noble families / M
M.
Surname | Period | Remarks | coat of arms |
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Machwitz | since 1236 | Vogtland nobility (extinct?) | |
Mackensen | since 1598 | two German noble families of different origins and coats of arms; 1) 1888 Braunschweig nobility with “von Astfeld” for Carl Mackensen; 2) 1899 Prussian nobility for August Mackensen . | |
Madai | since 1766 | German nobility originally from Lower Hungary, imperial nobility January 14, 1766 | |
Stomach home | 1147 to the end of the 14th century | medieval high nobility in the Zabergäu and Kraichgau | - |
Maggenberg | 1157-1370 | extinct knight family in today's canton of Friborg in Switzerland | - |
Magnis | since 1350 | originally Lombard, then Austro-Bohemian-Moravian and Silesian noble families; 1622 baron class; 1637 imperial count status | |
Magnus | since 1853 | Prussian noble family | - |
Maisach | since 1078/98 | noble, Bavarian noble family | |
Maissauer | 1122-1440 | Austrian ministerial family | - |
Mallinckrodt | since 1241 | Westphalian nobility from the county of Mark | |
Malotki (Mlotk) | since 1515 | Kashubian noble family from Pomerania | |
Malowetz | since 1313 | one of the oldest noble families in Bohemia, a family tree and coat of arms with the extinct Pardubitz (noble family) | |
from the Malsburg | since 1124 | Lower Hesse nobility, in 1809 royal Westphalian count, 1813 Westphalian recognition of the baron status | |
Malschitzky | 15-18 century | Kashubian-Pomeranian noble family, most recently also served in Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |
Painting | since 1076 | Geldern noble family, in 1680 Alsatian and later Bavarian barons | |
Malleben | since 1205 | Thuringian noble family | - |
Painter | since 1303 | noble family from southern Baden | |
Maltitz | (929?) / 1225 or 1223 | Two ancient noble families of different origins (Meißen and Thuringia) and coat of arms; 1619 recognition of the baron status for the Meissen family; 1796 Russian baronate for the Thuringian family | Maltitz (Meissen) |
Maltzahn | since 1194 | primeval noble family from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania; Pentzlin tribe: 1530 Bohemian and imperial barons, 1694 Bohemian counts; Tribe Sarov: Imperial Counts | |
Mandelsloh | since 1167 | Lower Saxony, then also Mecklenburg and later also Württemberg noble family; 1808 Württemberg counts; 1898 Austrian baron class | |
Manderscheid | since 1133 | The male line of the Rhenish noble-free house of Manderscheid died out at the beginning of the 13th century and its rule fell to the originally noble-free ministerial family of the Lords of Kerpen, who now called themselves von Kerpen and Manderscheid. In the middle of the 13th century the property was divided. Theodoric II received Kerpen, Wilhelm (Willekin) II received Manderscheid. In 1461 the Manderscheid line was raised to the rank of imperial count. In 1488 the house was divided into three lines, which were later reunited by inheritance. In 1780 the last of this house, Countess Augusta von Manderscheid-Blankenheim, married the Bohemian Count Philipp Christian von Sternberg. The branch of this family then called itself Sternberg-Manderscheid. | |
Manderstjerna | since 1692 | German-Swedish-Baltic noble family | |
Manesse | 13th to 15th century | Swiss noble and patrician family in Zurich | |
Mangoldt | since 1261 | Eastern nobility from Posen and Saxony-Anhalt; | |
Manicor | since 1599 | from Casez, today part of the Trentino municipality of Sanzeno, originally a bourgeois family in the Non Valley | |
Mannagetta | since 1637 | originally from Italy, the patrician family who came to Austria towards the end of the 16th century; 1637 nobility, 1752 Bohemian knighthood, 1753 Austrian baron class | |
Manndorff | since 1214 | Carinthian nobility; 1644 Imperial and Austrian barons | |
Mansberg | since the end of the 13th century | Swabian noble family; Ministeriale of the Dukes of Teck; The main seat was Mansberg Castle near Dettingen unter Teck | |
Mansfeld | (973) / since 1229 | noble-free family that begins in 975, but has only been called Count of Mansfeld since 1262. 1579 recognition of the imperial count status; 1696 imperial princes | |
Manstein | since 1287 | Old Prussian noble family | |
Manteuffel | since 1256 | old Pomeranian noble family; 1691, 1709, 1742 imperial baron, imperial count 1719 (House Kerstin ); 1790 ( Broitz House ) | |
Marchia (also from the Marck ) | since 1189 | Eichsfelder and Lower Saxon noble family | |
Marenholtz | since 1305 | Lüneburg nobility family | |
Marenzi | since 1024 | originally Lombard nobility; later an Italian and Austrian noble family | |
from the mark | approx. 1182-1609 | Originally Counts von der Mark , Altena and Krickenbeck, sidelines of the Counts of Berg-Altena ; 1243 sale of Krickenbeck, from 1392 also counts of Kleve (raised to duchy in 1417), after 1397 additional lords of Ravenstein , 1445 lords of Lippstadt , 1511 by inheritance dukes of Jülich and Berg and counts of Ravensberg ; Unification of all territories in 1521. The main line expired in 1609. [Since 1787 there was still an aristocratic family, Count von der Mark, for illegitimate children from the Hohenzollern house] |
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Markdorf | 1134-1356 | Noblemen in Linzgau in Baden | - |
Marschalck von Bachtenbrock | since 1142 | Bremen nobility | |
Marshal von Ostheim | 1260-1903 | extinct, Franconian nobility from Ostheim before the Rhön; 1856 enrolled in the Bavarian baron class. | |
Marshal von Schiltberg | 1031 to? | extinct, Bavarian noble family | - |
Marshal | since 1190 | Thuringian noble family | |
Marshal called Greiff | since 1127 | Franconian noble family | |
Marshal von Bieberstein | since 1196 | Meissen nobility; 1812 Nassau recognition of the baron class | |
Martial | 12th century to? | extinct, old noble family | |
Marwitz | since 1259 | Neumark nobility and two related families of postal nobility | |
Maschwitz | 1257-1669 | Saxon noble family | |
Massenbach | since the 12th century | Formerly imperial knight family from Swabia; Bavarian barons in 1813, Prussian barons in 1825 and 1875; | |
Massow | since 1232 | pomeranian nobility; 1844 Dutch baronate | |
Matfriede | since 8th century | Frankish-Lorraine aristocratic family | - |
mud | 12th century to 1504 | old, extinct Swiss-Austrian family | |
Mattersdorf-Forchtenstein | ? | Hungarian-Austrian counts in Burgenland and in western Hungary | - |
Mattonen | 8th century to 926 | East Franconian, early medieval noble family | - |
Matuschka | since the 13th century | South Bohemian noble family; 1715 Bohemian barons, 1747 Prussian counts | |
Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim | since 1200 | knight-born family from the Rhenish Franconia (Wormsgau); 1777 Danish nobility; in the 18th century as a baron | |
Mauderode | since 1650 | Prussian noble family | - |
Mautner | since around 1180 | Bavarian noble family | |
Mautner Markhof | since 1872 | ennobled Austrian entrepreneurial family | - |
Maydell | since 1363 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Maxlrain | 12th century to 1734 | old Bavarian noble family | |
Maxen | since 1335 | Meissen nobility | |
Mayr-Melnhof | since 1859 | Austrian family of entrepreneurs who achieved great prosperity in the steel and metallurgical industry in the 19th century and thus acquired the largest private forestry company in Austria, especially in Styria; Ennobled in 1859; 1872 Baron status | |
Mecklenburg | since 1842 | Mecklenburg, later also Swedish and Prussian noble family, descended from the natural sons of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg . 1863 Swedish barons. See also House Mecklenburg . | |
Medem | since 1240 | Lower Saxon nobility, from 1459 in the Baltic States; 1779 Reichsgrafenstand, 1862 Russian recognition for the use of the baron title, 1878 Prussian recognition for the use of the baron title | |
Meding | since 1155 | Lüneburg nobility family | |
Meerheimb | since 1216 | Mecklenburg and Saxon noble families | |
Meerscheidt-Hüllessem | since 1325 | First noble family of the Grafschaft Berg, which is a tribe with the Earls of Hillesheim , who died out in 1785 in the male line . Since 1530 he moved to Courland and later became a member of the Courland knighthood. | |
Megenzer from Velldorf | 1280 to the end of the 17th century | Vassals of the Counts of Hohenberg | |
Mehmet von Königstreu | since 1716 | Hanoverian noble family | - |
Meibom | since around 1500 | Lower Saxony postal nobility; 1755 Imperial nobility confirmation of the hereditary nobility conferred on July 9, 1590 (according to tradition) | |
Meinhardiner | 11th century to 1500 | Dynasty originally of Bavarian descent | Carinthia Gorizia |
Meiss | since 1225 | old Swiss noble family | |
Meissner | 1791-1866-1916 | Several noble families, including an extinct aristocratic family from Poland and East Prussia (hereditary Polish nobility 1791), one from Transylvania (hereditary Austrian knighthood 1866) and the Meissner von Hohenmeiß (hereditary Austrian nobility 1916) |
Polish-Baltic from Meissner Polish by Meissner Meißner from Moravia |
Melchingen | 1254-1504 | Swabian noble family | |
Mellenthin | since 1250 | Neumark-Pomeranian noble family | |
Mellin | since 1229 | Mecklenburg primal nobility, 1372 in Pomerania, 1549 in Livonia / Estonia, 1691 Swedish barons, 1696 Swedish counts | |
Mengden | since 1249 | Westphalian and Baltic nobility, Swedish barons in 1653, imperial counts in 1774 and 1779 | |
Mengersdorf | 1383-1601 | old Franconian noble family | |
Mengersen | since 1273 | one of the oldest knight families in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn; Barons; 1816 Prussian counts | |
Mengersreuth | 1407 (?) To 1649 | extinct Franconian noble family | |
Mensdorff-Pouilly | since 1418 | Lorraine prehistoric nobility; 1760 French count with de Roussy; 1818 Austrian count as von Mensdorff-Pouilly | |
Mensenkampff | since 1725 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Mentzingen | since 1190 | Swabian nobility; 1911 Grand Ducal Baden confirmation of the use of the title of baron | |
Meran | since 19th century | Austrian noble family, which comes from the Habsburgs | |
Merckelbach | since 1371 | German-Dutch noble family | |
Merenberg | 1090 (?) To 1327 | extinct, medieval noble family; also a morganatic line of the ducal house of Nassau | |
Merian | since 1706 | Basel family who were raised to the nobility in 1706 | - |
Merkatz | since 1770 (1737 and 1791) | Mail nobility | |
Merkingen | since 1223 | Swabian knightly noble family; Ministerials of the Counts of Oettingen with headquarters at Merkingen Castle | |
Merode | since 1065 | Rhenish prehistoric nobility with the Kerpen an der Erft parent company | |
Mertein from Mergentheim | (14th Century) | extinct German noble family | |
Mertzel | 12-14 century | old, Bremen and later Holstein knightly noble family | |
Merveldt | since 1169 | Westphalian noble family | |
Merz from Kriftel | 1198-15. century | Dead, Nassau noble family von Kriftel / von Crüf (f) tel, around 1315 Merze von Kriftel | - |
Merz or Mertz Merz on Quirnheim |
since 1351 | Kurmainzer officials and burgraves, 1671/72 rule of Quirnheim, 1675 imperial lords and knights as Merz auf Quirnheim, 1685 Grand Palatinate, 1690 Danish barons, 1704 Danish liege counts, 1814 Russian and French knighthood, 1820/39 Bavarian knight class |
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Meschede | 12-18 century | Westphalian noble family | |
Mettel | ? | Silesian noble family | - |
Metternich | since 1354 | extensive aristocratic family from the Rhineland; 1616 Imperial Barons for the Winneburg line, 1664 for the Bourscheid line, 1670 for the Müllenark line; 1679 Imperial Counts for the Winneburg line, 1696 for the Chursdorf line; 1803 imperial prince, 1813 Austrian prince for the Winneburg line. | |
Metzburg | 1690-1860 | extinct Austrian noble family; Ennobled in 1690; 1714 imperial baron status | |
Metzradt | since the 13th century | old, originally Saxon noble family | |
Metzsch (Metsch) | since 1238 | Saxon-Meißnisch-Vogtland noble family; Metsch: 1699 imperial baron, 1703 imperial count; Metzsch-Reichenbach: Royal Saxon counts in 1916 | |
Meusebach | 1404-1753 | old knightly Meissen-Thuringian noble family; 1688 Imperial Barons; | |
Meyendorff-Uexkull | since 1679 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Meyenn | since 1768 | Post-aristocratic family from Mecklenburg | |
Meyer-Niessen also Meyer von Weiler | since 1175 | South Baden noble family | |
Meyern-Hohenberg | ? | Originally from the Bohemian Vogtland, Bavarian noble family | |
Michel | since the beginning of the 20th century | Upper Bavarian noble family | - |
Michaelis | since 1786 | Prussian noble family | |
Middendorff | since 1841 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Mieg | since 1792 | Family originally of Alsatian origin, which flourished especially in Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Heidelberg and still exists in France today as Mieg de Boofzheim | |
Mießl von Linienissen | since 1786 | Bohemian and Austrian postal nobility | - |
Milkau | since 1233 | Meissen-Eastern noble family | |
Miller to Aichholz | since 1691 | Austrian family of industrialists and scholars; 1691 raised to the nobility | |
Miltitz | since 1186 | old, Saxon-Meißnisches nobility family; 1687 imperial baron status; Tribe and coat of arms related to those of Maltitz | |
Milwalt | since 1189 | Noble noble family with property and privileges on the Middle Rhine and in the Hunsrück | |
Minckwitz | since 1168 | Eastern nobility; 1586 Bohemian barons; 1847 Belgian recognition for holding the baron title | |
Minnigerode | since 1203 | noble family of Lower Saxony; 1877 Prussian recognition of the baron class | |
Mirbach | since the 13th century | Rhenish nobility | |
Mistelbach | 1321-1563 | extinct, Frankish noble family | |
Mithoff | since 1430 | old, Hanoverian bourgeois family; In 1639 one branch received imperial nobility | |
Mitschke-Collande | 1705 | Silesian nobility; 1846 Prussian nobility as von Mitschke-Collande | |
Mitzlaff | since 1389 | Old Pomeranian noble family | |
Mladota from Solopisk | since 1305 | Bohemian nobility, 1761 old Bohemian barons | |
Moellendorff (Möllendorff) | since 1343 | Primeval noble family from the Altmark | |
killer | 1243-1730 | extinct, Rügen-Pomeranian noble family | |
Mörner | since 1298 | noble family of the Mark Brandenburg; Count | |
Moers | 1186-1501 | Upper Rhine noble family of the Middle Ages; Lords of the County of Moers; by marriage in 1376 the empire-direct county of Saar Werden was added in 1397, 1417 inheritance in Moers and Moers-Saar Werden; 1501 extinct in the male line | |
Mohingara | 8th and 9th centuries | Bavarian aristocratic clan | - |
minor | 8th and 9th centuries | aristocratic family originally from the Spanish Netherlands, which came from there to Germany and Austria; 1555 confirmation of nobility; 1580 imperial and hereditary nobility; 1789 baronial status | - |
Mollard | since 1571 | originally a Savoy family that came to Austria in the 16th century; 1571 gentry | |
Moller from the tree | since 1427 | Hanseatic family | |
Moltke | since 1254 | Mecklenburg primeval nobility; Line Samow : title of baron in 1843, Prussian count in 1870; Schorsow line : 1776 imperial count; Wulffen line : 1910 Austrian baron class; Bregentved line : 1750 Danish feudal counts; Wesselstorf line : Danish baronate in 1828. | |
Monroy | ? | originally French, Huguenot aristocratic family that settled in Kurhannover and Mecklenburg | |
Mont | since about 1300 | Bündner aristocratic family; originally from Vella (Villa) in the Val Lumnezia valley in Surselva | |
Montecuccoli | since 11th century | nobility from the Duchy of Modena, later residing in Austria; 1520 Imperial Count | |
Montenuovo | until 1951 | extinct noble and princely family in the Austrian monarchy, which came from the Franconian-Swabian Counts of Neipperg in the male line and from the imperial house of Habsburg-Lothringen in the female line | |
Montfort | 1200-1787 | Influential dynasty of counts from the ancestral castle of Montfort near Götzis in Vorarlberg | |
Montgelas | since 18th century | Bavarian aristocratic family from Savoy | |
Monzenbach | 13th and 14th century | noble family resident in the Herborn and Driedorf area | - |
Moosburg | 1055-1281 | Bavarian noble family | - |
Morawitzky | ? | originally a noble family in the Kingdom of Poland, which later gained prestige in Bohemia and Silesia, then in the Electorate, then in the Kingdom of Bavaria | |
Morning star | 1836-1864 | Anhalt-Dessau nobility | |
Morgenstern (Jutrzenka) | since 1515 | Pomeranian noble family; 1799 Prussian nobility recognition | |
Morrien | 1271-1691 | one of the leading Westphalian noble families in the Middle Ages | |
Mosbach-Lindenfels | ? | extinct, Central German noble family | |
Mosch | since 1245 | Silesian nobility | |
Moscon | ? | Austrian noble family | |
Moselle | since 1248 | Meissnian-Saxon nobility | |
Moser from Ebreichsdorf | since 1606 | Austrian noble family; 1606 hereditary knighthood; In 1635 under the new Lower Austrian and in 1718 under the old knight families | |
Moser from Eggendorf | 1385 to the 16th century | Upper Austrian nobility and gentlemen in Eggendorf and Weitersdorf | |
Moy de Sons | since 1133 | Bavarian aristocratic family from France | |
Joke | 1294-1575 | Pomeranian noble family | - |
Munch | 1144 to 15th century | Old and powerful Bamberg vassal family in the Merseburg Abbey, extinct in the 15th century | |
from to the mills | since 1532 | Originally from the Lower Saxon-Dutch area, later Baltic family, 1792 imperial nobility | |
Mühlendahl | since 1794 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Mudra | since 1913 | Prussian noble family | - |
Muffle from Eschenau | 1286-1784 | one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg | |
Müffling called white | since the middle of the 16th century | originally Bavarian, later in Prussian service, probably from the beginning of the 19th century as a Prussian baron | |
Muggenthal | 15-18 century | Bavarian noble family | |
Garbage | since 1285 | West Prussian nobility | |
Müldner of Mülnheim | 1830-1958 | Electoral Hesse nobility | - |
Mülinen | since 1287 | Aargau knights from Mülligen; later Habsburg ministerials in Switzerland | |
Müllenheim | since 1108 | old Strasbourg patrician family from the Alsatian nobility; 1773 French recognition of the baronate, 1886–1910 several Prussian permits to continue the title of baron | |
Müller | since 1661 | Bavarian noble family | - |
Mülner | since 1159 | Swiss knight dynasty in Zurich | |
Münch | since 1180 | old knightly, later baronial noble family from the Thuringian nobility | |
Münch (Basel) | 1185-1759 | one of the most influential families of the Basel knighthood | |
Münch of Mühringen | since 1731 | patrician family from Augsburg, imperial nobility April 4, 1731, raised to imperial baron status on November 7, 1788, expired on August 5, 1920 in the male line | |
Munchausen | since 1183 | Lower Saxon nobility from Monckhusen near Loccum in the former principality of Calenberg. Black line : 1861 Prussian recognition of the baron class. White line : 1878 Brunswick recognition of the baron class | |
Münchingen | 1157 to? | Swabian nobility from Glemsgau; the title of baron was based on membership of the Swabian imperial knighthood | |
Münchow | since 1249 | Pomeranian nobility; 1741 Prussian counts | |
Münnich | since 1688 | Oldenburg noble family; 1688 Oldenburg nobility, 1702 imperial (HRR) recognition and confirmation, 1726 baron, 1728 Russian count, 1741 imperial count | |
Munster (Franconia) | since 1352 | Franconian noble family; 1660 imperial baron status | |
Munster (Westphalia) | since 1170 | old high free Westphalian noble family; 1792 Imperial and Bavarian counts; 1899 Prussian princes | |
Muntprat | ? | Constance patrician and long-distance trader of Lombard origin and later a Thurgau noble family | |
Munzenberg | 10-12 century | Reichsministeriale mainly in the Wetterau; developed from the Lords of Hagen; related to the Lords of Dornberg | |
Münzesheim | 17th to 19th century | illegitimate sideline of the house of Baden | |
Murach | from 1110 | Bavarian noble family | |
Muralt | from approx. 1182 | Swiss primeval nobility from Ticino | |
Murring | 1250 to early 15th century | early knight dynasty in the Hof area | - |
Müschede | 1179-1419 | medieval noble family with its headquarters in Müschede near Arnsberg | |
Muschwitz | since 1205 | Meissen-Saxon, later Brandenburg-Prussian noble family | |
Mutius | since 1615/1745 | Silesian family, 1615 imperial coat of arms, 1745 Prussian nobility | |
Mützschefahl | 12th century to? | noble family of Lower Saxony; extinguished after the second half of the 18th century | |
Mylius | since 1512 | Cologne patrician family |