List of German noble families / B

B.

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Babenberger	976-1246	Franconian-Bavarian family of margraves and dukes. They ruled from 976 until their extinction in 1246 as margraves and dukes in Ostarrichi .
Baboons	985 to?	Saxon noble family	-
Brook	since 1311	Baden noble family
Bach oven from Echt	since 1325	Thuringian-Austrian noble family
Bacquehem	?	Originally from the County of Artois, their descendants emigrated to Austria in 1792; 1844 Prevalence of the dignity of a marquis in the Austrian imperial state
to bathe	since 11th century	High aristocratic family whose roots lie in Breisgau, Ortenau, Baar, Hegau and Thurgau
to bathe	1130-1830	old Zähringian ministerial family, which later belonged to the Breisgau estates
Badeni	since 18th century	Polish noble family; elevated to the rank of count by the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand in 1845
Badwiden	985 to?	Saxon noble family	-
Baehr (Ascanians)	since 1752	Sex comes from a connection between the descendants of Albrecht the Bear and Ascanian prince Viktor II. Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg with Friederike Schmidt, chambermaid of Princess Albertine von Anhalt-Bernburg; Imperial nobility on January 15, 1752
Baehr / Bähr (Livonia)	since around 1650	Baltic noble family
Baehr (East Prussia)	since 18th century	noble family from East Prussia	-
Baer (Nassau)	since 1398	Old Naussau noble family	-
Baer nobles of Huthorn (Estonia)	since the 16th century	Baltic noble family
Bär (Baer) of Basel	since 15th century	Basel patrician family
Baerenfels-Warnow	since 1709	Mecklenburg noble family
Baerl	1234 to the 17th century	Lower Rhine noble family
Bagge by Boo	since about 1400	Scandinavian-Baltic noble family
Baggehufwudt	since the 16th century	Swedish-Russian-Baltic noble family
Bellows	1530 to after 1803	Pomeranian-Lauenburg noble family
Balgstedt	1152 to 15th century	Thuringian gender
Ballenhausen	12th century to 1507	Thuringian-Hessian nobility
Ballestrem	since the 14th century	Germany-based branch of the Italian dynasty of the Count Ballestrero di Castellengo from Piedmont in northern Italy
Balm	12th century to 1312	Barons from the Swiss plateau	-
Bandel	since 1898	Postal nobility, raised to the Prussian nobility in 1898, expired	-
Bandemer	since the 14th century	Pomeranian nobility, Courland tribe († 17th century)
Bank	since 1363/4	Wroclaw patrician family
Banz	since 1252	Wroclaw patrician family	-
bar	since 1204	Primeval noble family from the Osnabrück region
Baranoff	since the 16th century	originally Russian-Swedish-Baltic noble family; At the beginning of the 20th century, some family members emigrated to Germany
Baravalle von Brackenburg	since 1829	family originally from Spain, immigrated to Austria from Piedmont in the 18th century; 1829 Austrian nobility	-
Barby	since 1296	Primeval noble family from the Magdeburg region
Earls of Barby	1150-1660	old dynasty of counts that were of the same tribe as the Counts of Arnstein (noble lords until 1497)
Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn	?	Baltic-Russian noble family; agnatic branch of the Weymar family from Lübeck
Bard life	Bardeleben (Magdeburg) since 1159; Bardeleben (Minden) since 1220; Bardeleben (letter nobility) since 1891	three independently existing noble families	^{Bardeleben (Magdeburg)} ^{Bardeleben (Minden)}
Bardons	850-1050	Saxon noble family	-
Bear Rock	since the end of the 13th century	Basel aristocratic family
Barefoot	since 1251	Ancient noble family from the Altmark; 1699 Imperial Counts
Barmen	14th century to?	Noble family based on the fortress Kellenberg
Barmstede	12th to 14th century	Schleswig-Holstein noble family
Barnekov	since 1236	rügen nobility; 1751 Swedish barons; 1816 Swedish count
Barner	since 1302	Mecklenburg noble family
Barold	13th century to 1746	Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility
Baroni of Cavalcabò	1788-1879	extinct Tyrolean noble family from Trentino; 1788 ennoblement; 1805 Tyrolean nobility register
Barsdorf	1327 to 18th century	Brandenburg noble family
Barsewisch	since 1244	Old Markian nobility
Bartens life	1188 to 1742	extinct, German noble family from the Börde
Bartenstein (Franconia)	13./14. Century to?	extinct knight family with seat of Bartenstein Castle; Feudsmen of the Bishop of Würzburg.
Bartenstein (Austria)	18th and 19th centuries	Austrian noble family; originally in Thuringia and Lower Saxony
Barth	since 1596	Munich patrician family, who were raised to the nobility in 1596 as Barth zu Harmating
Bartholotti	since 1636	Austrian noble family; come from Veneto, then went to Styria and Carniola; Knightly in 1636, in 1653 as an imperial knighthood, in 1704 as an imperial baron, in 1708 as an hereditary baron, in 1729 as an imperial count
Bartsch von Demuth	since 1507	Kashubian-Warmian-Prussian noble family
Basedow	since 1280; 1333, 1833	Uckermark noble family († around 1500); Lüneburg-Lübeck-Mecklenburg noble patrician family, 1552 imperial recognition with improved coat of arms, († 1555); 1833 Anhalt-Dessau diploma with coat of arms of the first mentioned family; 1836 royal prussia. Recognition of nobility
Basselet by La Rosée	since 1764	older Spanish-Dutch noble family, imperial count 1764, mainly resident in Bavaria
Bassermann-Jordan	since (1883) 1917	documented since 1462, since 18th century Baden-Palatinate upper-class citizens with extensive vineyards; 1883 Bavarian name association with Jordan; 1917 elevation to the Bavarian nobility as von Bassermann-Jordan and coat of arms association in the nobility
Bassewitz	since 1254	Mecklenburg primeval nobility; 1726 Elevation to the rank of imperial count
Bastheim	1180-1848	extinct, Franconian-Swabian noble family
Bastian Brzeziński		Prussian, Pomeranian, Polish and Pomeranian noble families
Battenberg (Middle Ages) / Battenberg (Modern Times; House of Hesse)	12./13. And since the 19th century	Hessian count family, extinct in 1310; since 1858 the descendants of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt. See also mountbatten
Batthyány	since 1341	old and widely ramified Hungarian noble family who, as magnates, counts and princes, belonged to the most important families in Austria-Hungary
Baudissin	since 1455	Meissnian, Sorbian nobility from Upper Lusatia.
Tree of Baumsdorf	1681-1725	extinct noble family in the Franconian area
Baumbach	since 1246	Hessian noble family
Baumberger		Prussian noble family
Baumgarten	since 12th century	noble, Bavarian noble family	-
Beaufort spontaneous	since 1005	Lorraine-Austrian noble family
Beaulieu-Marconnay	since 1287	originally French noble family
Bechburg	until 1386	High aristocratic family in the Swiss plateau, which had its original seat in the 11th century at Fahr von Wolfwil
Bechinie of Lazan	since 1414	Bohemian noble family, emerged from the von Seidlitz family
Beck	1884	Postal nobility, raised to the nobility of Baden in 1884	-
Beck of Leopoldsdorf	?	aristocratic family from Salzburg; 1597 Freiherrnstand
Beck-Peccoz	since 1890	Originally from Gressoney, the Bavarian noble family	-
From the basin	since 1303	Westphalian noble family	-
Beckedorff		Prussian noble family	-
Beerfelde	since 1358	Brandenburg noble family	-
Behaim from Schwarzbach to Kirchensittenbach	1285-1942	one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1681 Reichsfreiherrenstand with von Schwarzbach, since 1736 from Schwarzbach to Kirchensittenbach
Behr	since 1105	Lower Saxon nobility. Three family lines: 1. Lower Saxony / Kurland, 2. Mecklenburg, 3. Pomerania with slightly different coats of arms
Beichlingen	1014-1735	extinct counts
Beindorff	?	extinct noble family of Lower Saxony
Beissel from Gymnich	since 1320	Lower Rhine nobility. Branch line of the Lords von Gymnich , who died out in 1785 , and Prussian counts in 1816
Bell	since 1065	Rhenish nobility with the Kerpen an der Erft parent company - one line with the Merode family. Extinct in the male line in Germany in the middle of the 15th century - the Transylvanian line still exists today
Bellegarde	since 1263	Austrian noble family that descends from the Savoyard nobility; 1825 Lower Austrian gentry
Bellersheim	since 1220	Primeval noble family from the Wetterau, 1910 grand-ducal Hessian authorization to use the title of baron
Bellin	?	Mecklenburg noble family
Bellingshausen	since the 16th century	German-Baltic noble family
Belmont	since 1139	noble-free barons from today's canton of Graubünden in Switzerland
Below	since 1194/1217	mecklenburg-pomeranian nobility. A Mecklenburg tribe with its own coat of arms has existed since 1296	^{Below (Mecklenburg)} ^{Below (Pomerania)}
Belp-Montenach	1107-1493	Swiss barons
Benckendorff	since 18th century	Estonian-Swedish noble family from the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel
Benda	since 1825	Pomeranian and Prussian noble family
Bendelife	1203-1828	extinct Thuringian servant family
Beneckendorff	since 1280	Neumark and Meissen nobility
Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg	since the beginning of the 19th century	Prussian noble family
Beneschau	probably 1162 (extinct 13th century)	Family of the Bohemian nobility
Bennenwil	1227 to the end of the 16th century	Swiss ministerial family named after Beniwil, a hamlet in the village of Alterswil in today's canton of Friborg
Bennigsen	since 1311	old, Lower Saxon noble family. There is a branch line Bennigsen-Foerder created by adoption .
Names	12-17 century	extinct, Thuringian knight family
Bentheim-Steinfurt	since 1421	Princes since 1817
Bentheim-Tecklenburg	since 1606	Princes since 1817
Bentinck	since 1304	baronial and noble family in Westphalia, the Netherlands and England.
Berbisdorf	around 1419 to? (extinguished)	old, Meissen noble family
Berchem	since approx. 1458	Rhineland noble family
Berchtold	since 1603	Lower Austrian noble family
Berckefeldt	since 14th century	Lower Saxon noble family
Bercken	since 1354	Westphalian, Baltic and Prussian noble families
Berckheim	since 1163	Alsatian nobility
Berckholtz / Berkholz	since 1620	from Rostock, later Baltic family with the lines Berckholtz (Imperial nobility Vienna 1793) Berkholz (Russian nobility 1877)
Berens von Rautenfeld	since 1752	German-Baltic noble family, probably from Prussia
Mountain (estonia)	since 1371	German-Baltic nobility, in 1723 and 1799 Swedish nobility naturalization as Berch
Berg (Brandenburg)	1375	Brandenburg-Uckermark nobility family, 1842 Prussian counts
Berg (Lower Saxony)	since 1838	Lower Saxon and later Baden noble family
Berg (Mecklenburg)	since 1742	Mecklenburg noble family	-
Mountain (oesel)	1490 to the end of the 19th century	German-Baltic noble family, 1561 Polish indigenous people , 1620 Courland knighthood, 1741 Livonian knighthood
Berg (Rhineland)	1357	Rhineland noble family
Mountain (Vogtland)	since the 14th century	Vogtland noble family
Berg-Altena	12-14 century	old dynasty of counts
Mountain called Schrimpf	since 1574	Franconian-Swabian knight family
Berga	?	Thuringian-Franconian noble family
from the mountains	1096	medieval noble family
Berger	since 1717	Hanoverian noble family; 1717 and 1722 with the title knight and noble gentleman Imperial knighthood; 1776 Danish nobility naturalization
Bergh	11th century	old, extinct count family (1100–1416)
Bergheim	since 1183	Successor line of the ministerials von Itzling and Fischach, who in turn were important servants of the archbishops in the Salzburg monastery
Mountain glasses	1350-1766	Rügen-Pomeranian gender
Van Bergum	since 12th century	German-Dutch aristocratic and patrician family	-
Beringer	since 6th century	constructed Anhalt noble family	-
Berka	1154-1272	Thuringian family with a small county near Weimar	-
Berkule	since 1191 until?	Westphalian noble family of knighthood. In the 13th century it dominated the area south of Warburg
Berlepsch	since 1369	old, Hessian nobility; 1869 counts, 1876 barons
Berlichingen	since 1151	old, imperial knight dynasty of Franconian origin
Bernefuer	since 1151	Westphalian noble family of the former county of Oldenburg and the former Niederstift Münster and the former Hochstift Osnabrück
Bernewitz	since 1540	German and Courland noble family; 1867 barons
Bernhard	since 17th century	from the Westerwald family; 1830 Bavarian baron class
Bernhausen	1027-1839	Swabian noble family from Bernhausen south of Stuttgart
Berninghausen	14th Century	old, extinct Westphalian knightly family
Bernsau	Middle of the 11th century to 1715 (direct line of tribes without title until today)	Bergisches nobility
Bernstorff	since 1300	Mecklenburg Uradelsfanmilie; 1300 imperial barons, 1767 Danish counts
Bernus	since 1682	German-Austrian noble family that came to Germany from Italy via Liège in 1682; Elevated to the nobility in 1912
Bernuth	1655-1786	noble family from Groß Rosenburg an der Saale in the former County of Barby; 1786 Prussian nobility
Berstett	1120-1893	Alsatian nobility
Berswordt	since 1249	Name and coat of arms association with those of the primeval von Wallrabe family in the 18th century - Prussian nobility recognition 1906
Bertouch	since 1640	Prussian noble family from Thuringia
Berwangen	1325-1522	late medieval noble family
Berwinkel, also Bärwinkel	1181-1662	extinct, ancient noble family of ministers and knights in the Diocese of Halberstadt, the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and in the Altmark.
Besnard	since 18./19. Century	Palatinate-Bavarian postal nobility
Better	since 1768	Prussian noble family from Thuringia
Better	1264-2004	Swabian nobility, patrician family from Ulm; 1552 confirmation of the knightly imperial nobility, 1817 Bavarian baron, 1838 Württemberg baron
Bethmann	since 1416	family resident in Frankfurt / Main; 1808 Austrian nobility; 1854 Baden baron
Bettendorff	1071-1942	imperial barons direct from the empire; 1695 imperial baron status
Bettstein	since 1292	Lorraine prehistoric nobility
Betzdorf	since 1360 (Johann v. Betzdorf)	Knights and ministers from the Westerwald, vassals of the Counts of Sayn
Flexing	since 1113	noble family from southern Baden
Beulwitz	since 1137	old, Thuringian-Eastern noble family; 1818 and 1854 Bavarian barons, 1884 Württemberg confirmation and Austrian prevalence of the barons
Beust	since 1228	old, Altmark aristocratic family; 1777 imperial count status; Baron title recognized for other lines in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1856.
bag	14th to 2nd half of the 18th century	Prussian noble family
Beverförde to Werries	?	Westphalian noble family
Bevern	1139 to the early 19th century	Westphalian aristocratic family that emerged from the von Meinhövel family , which since 1139 had the addition of "von Bevern".
Beyer	since 1786	Prussian noble family
Beyer from Boppard	13th to 16th century	Rhineland noble family
Biberegg-Roggenburg	12th century	Swabian noble family	-
Beavers	13th century until?	extinct Franconian noble family around Creglingen an der Tauber
Bibow	since 1216	Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility
Bibra	since 1119	Franconian-Thuringian nobility; 1698 as a baron
Bichelsee	since 1209	important and wealthy Swiss noble family in Thurgau
Bend	1218-1732	Middle Hessian noble family; see also the master list of the gentlemen von Bicken
Bickenbach	1130-1486	Central German knight family
Bidembach	1654-18. Century	extinct family of scholars, originally from Hesse, who were raised to the nobility in 1654
Bieberstein	1218–1667 (?)	Noble family from the margraviate of Meißen (Bieberstein Castle); 1547 Bohemian baron
Biedenfeld	since 1215	Upper Hessian noble family
Biel	to 13th century	Middle Hessian knight family
Biel	since 1791	Mecklenburg noble family
Bielke	since 1266	Swedish and Prussian noble families
Bee man from bee trunk	since 1794	German-Baltic postal aristocracy
Bila (Biela, Byla)	since 1200	Thuringian nobility
Billerbeck	since 1301	originally a noble family from Lower Saxony. Lines in Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Pomerania since around 1400
Billunger	811-1106	Old line of counts	-
Bilow	since 1320	Western Pomeranian nobility
Bilstein	1225 to 14th century	medieval, Westphalian noble family
Binder from Degenschild		Austrian noble family; 1747 hereditary-Austrian knighthood	-
Binder from Krieglstein		patrician family from Alsace; 1550 imperial aristocracy, 1723 with "von Krieglstein" imperial knighthood, 1759 imperial baron class
Birckhahn	since 1247	originally Mecklenburg, later Prussian noble family
Birkigt	since 1317	Meissnian-Saxon nobility
Biron from Curland	1638 to the 19th century	family immigrated to Courland from Westphalia; 1730 Russian counts
Bischoffshausen	since 1255	Lower Saxon nobility, 1854 Sachsen-Meiningen confirmation of the baron status, 1877 Prussian recognition
Bischopinck	since 1092	Westphalian noble family, hereditary men of Münster, Lithuanian-Polish branch Bisping (v. Gallen)
Bischwang	?	extinct aristocratic family originally from Swabia who emigrated to Mecklenburg
Bismarck	since 1270	old, German noble family from Stendal with the five lines Bismarck, Bismarck-Bohlen, Bismarck-Osten, Bismarck (-Schierstein), Bismarck (-Schönhausen)
Bissing / Bissingen	since 1393	old noble family presumably from Swabia; 1644 Anhalt, 1851 Prussian barons
Bistram	since 15th century	originally located in Silesia, Baltic noble family
Bitter	since 1880	Postage: 1880 Prussian nobility
Blacha	since 1466	old Silesian noble family, the Protestant and the Catholic. The lines of Blacha and Lubie have different coats of arms	Blacha (evangelical line) Blacha (Catholic line)
Blanckenberg	-	extinct, Thuringian-Franconian noble family
Blanckenburg	since 1173	aristocratic family from Brandenburg, Pomerania and Mecklenburg; 1799 Prussia. Baron class
Blanckenhagen	since 1588	German-Baltic noble family, the origin of which is most likely in Pomerania
Blanckensee	since 1234	Neumark nobility, which later spread to Pomerania and Posen; 1798 Prussian counts
Blank type	since 1176	originally, native Lorraine nobility, later in the Eifel, on the Lower Rhine, in Belgium and Prussia
Blankenfelde	to 17th century	Berlin patrician and councilor family, especially from 13th to 16th century
Blankenheim	since 1115	Noble family from the Eifel, raised to the rank of count in 1380. From 1469 the counts called themselves Manderscheid-Blankenheim. In 1794 Countess Augusta and her family fled to Bohemia.
bellows	until 1705	extinct Saxon noble family
Bledeln	12th and 13th centuries	Lower Saxon noble family	-
Blixen	since 1239	pomeranian nobility; 1772 Swedish and 1802 Danish barons; 1794 name merger with von Finecke as Blixen-Finecke
Blomberg	since 1307	Westphalian family, lines in Courland and Swabia (†)
Blome	1342-1945	Originally a noble family from Lower Saxony, which came from the Calenberg nobility and later came to Holstein and Denmark
Blucher	since 1214	Mecklenburg nobility; 1777 Danish, 1814 Prussian counts; 1861 Prince of the Primogeniture
Blumberg	since 1260	Swabian noble family	-
Blumegg	15th century	independent line of the gentlemen von Blumberg
Flower crown	1690	originally a Bohemian knighthood, later baron
Blumenthal	since 1241	aristocratic family of Brandenburg; 1646 imperial barons (house Pröttlin ); 1733 Imperial Count (House Vehlow); 1768 Prussian counts (Haus Horst); 1786 Prussian counts (Haus Steinhöfel); 1840 Prussian counts (House Suckow); 1883 Prussian Counts (House Quellendorf)
Boch	1892	Merchant family from Deutsch-Oth in Lorraine; 1892 Prussian nobility; 1907 Association of names and coats of arms with Galhau	-
Bocholtz	since 1127	old noble family from the Lower Rhine; 1803 Prussian counts (previously barons for a long time)
Bock adH Lachmes	since the 16th century	Livonian family, Swedish indigenous people
Bock and Polach	since 1206	Meissen nobility
Bock from Wülfingen	since 1175	Lower Saxon nobility
Bocksdorf	?	Saxon noble family
Böckenförde called Schüngel	1244 to 18./19. century	extinct, Westphalian noble family
Boeckingen	1140-1550	extinct noble family from Böckingen; Ministerial of the Counts of Calw; the coat of arms is identical to the Counts of Neipperg
Böcklin von Böcklinsau	since 1266	Alsatian noble family
Boeddenstedt	up to the 16th century	extinct noble family from Lüneburg-Mecklenburg
Boddien	since 1787	Mecklenburg noble family
Bodeck (Bodeck von Ellgau)	since 1250	Thorner city dynasty
Bodelschwingh	since the end of the 13th century	Rhenish-Westphalian noble family; Baron title since the 14th century
Bodenhausen	since 1135	old, Lower Saxon noble family; 1669 imperial baron status
Bodenstein	since 11th century	Thuringian noble family
Bodman	since 1152	highly free, Swabian-Baden noble family; 1690/1716 imperial barons; 1902 Baden counts (primogenitur) (as von und zu Bodmann).
Soilings	since 1186	Original Thuringian nobility with the parent company of the same name near Worbis, later also in Saxony and Prussia
Boehmer	since 1634	Letter post office; 1743 Prussian nobility
Boehn (beans)	since 1287	pomeranian nobility; 1813 Bavarian. Permission to continue the baron title
Boeselager	since 1363	old noble family from the Archdiocese of Magdeburg; 1823 Prussian barons
Boetticher	since 1204	Mocking Thuringian noble family
Boetzelaer (van den Boetzelaer)	since 1256	Dutch noble family from the Kleve area; German line extinct in 1711
arc	until 1242	powerful, east Bavarian counts; Extinguished in 1242
Planks	since 1236	old, originally Rügen noble family
Bohlen and Halbach	Halbach since 1613/14	important German entrepreneurial family; 1871 von Bohlen and Halbach, since 1906 Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach
Bolanden	1128-1602	Reichsministeriale - later sovereigns
Boltenstern	since 1675	Swedish-Pomeranian noble family
Bombast from Hohenheim	since 12th century	Swabian noble family
Bomsdorff	since 1310	nobility from Lower Lusatia
Bona	around 1100	very old noble family from the kk hereditary lands; probably comes from France; Imperial knighthood 1535
Boncompagni-Ludovisi	since 1300	Italian patrician family
Bonda	?	Patrician family of the Republic of Ragusa; 1817 Austrian nobility confirmation; 1857 Austrian counts
Bondeli	since 1703	Swiss patrician family, which was elevated to the Prussian baron status in 1703
Bonin	since 1294	noble family from the Pomerania
Boenninghausen	since 15th century	Westphalian noble family; 1634 imperial baron status
Bongart	since 1220	Jülisches nobility of the Lower Rhine imperial knighthood, imperial barons since 1629
Bonstetten	since 1122	old, Alemannic noble family; 1499 Confirmation of the title of baron
Boos from Waldeck	since 1243	old, Rhenish ministerial family; 1698 Herrenstand (Freiherr); 1790 Imperial and Bavarian counts
boron	13th Century	old, Bohemian noble family, branch of the Schwanberger
Borch	1181-1502	Federal Ministerial Family of Bremen
from the Borch	since 1310	Westphalian noble family; not related to the Bremen ministerial family von Borch
Borcke	since 1170	old, Pomeranian gender; At the end of the 17th century the predicate “from” was adopted; Counts diplomas 1740, 1790 and 1840
Borghese	since 1238	Roman noble family
Borne	since 1264	old, Brandenburg aristocratic family
Bornheim	since 1173	Rhenish, originally dynastic noble family
Bornstaedt	since 1120	Thuringian nobility
Bornstedt	since 1232	Magdeburg noble family
Borries	since 1390	Minden city dynasty; 1733 confirmation of imperial nobility; 1860 Hanoverian counts (Primogeniture);
Borstell	1209	Old Markian nobility
Bortfeld	1169-1688	Lower Saxon noble family	-
Angry	since 1230	Saxon nobility
Bosen (also Bose)	since 13th century	Westphalian noble family
Boskowitz	1230-1597	Bohemian noble family
Both	since 1273	Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility
Bothfeld	1162-1729	old, Meissen noble family
Bothmer	since 1162	noble family of Lower Saxony; House Lauenbrück: 1696 imperial barons, 1713: imperial counts; Bennemühlen House: 1881 Prussian barons
Botsch	14th century to 1637	extinct, Tyrolean aristocratic family, originally from Florence
Bottlenberg	since 1189	Bergisches and Westphalian noble families
Botzheim	since 1309	Upper and Middle Rhine noble family; 1884 barons
Botzlaer	since about 1256	Klevian-Dutch noble family
Bouget	since 1684	Nobility from France	-
Bourscheidt	since 1122	Rhenish noble family
Boutteville	since 1790	extinct noble family from Lorraine; 1842 matriculation in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the baron class
Bovelino	since the 14th century	noble family from the Graubünden-Lombardy	-
Bovenden	1170 - end of the 16th century	Lower Saxon noble family
Boxberger (Boxberg)	since 1450	Franconian noble family with three independent lines: Boxberger (Franconia), Boxberg (Austria), Boxberg (Saxony), all of which appear for the first time in the 16th century
Boyneburg / Boineburg and Lengsfeld	since 1120	Lower Hessian barons and counts. Since the middle of the 12th century there have been two tribes (A and B) without any demonstrable connection with different coats of arms.	^{Strain A} ^{Strain B}
Brabeck	since the 13th century	Westphalian noble family; 1803 Prussian counts
Brackel	since 1225	German-Baltic nobility, 1270 Danish (†), 16th century Courland (†), 1742 Livonian, 1836 Bavarian baron class (†), 1756 Swedish (†), 1818 Finnish (†)
Brackel	---	Brackel is the name of three West German noble families from Westphalia and the Lower Rhine.
Bradke	since 17th century	Originally from Lübeck, the German-Baltic noble family
Braida	995	noble family from Savoy, which can be traced back to Aleramo I., Conte di Savona, Austrian counts 1674
Brakel	12-14 century	originally noble, Westphalian noble family
Branconi	1766 (?)	noble family called Pessina de Branconi from Calabria (northern Italy)
Brandenstein	since 1282	Thuringian noble family; 1486 imperial barons; 1909 Association of names and coats of arms between the Wernburg-Zöschen tribe and the Counts of Zeppelin
Brandis (Lower Saxony)	since 1383 (civil)	old Hildesheim city family; 1769 imperial nobility; 1856 as a baron
Brandis (Switzerland)	since the 13th century	highly free sex of the 13th-16th centuries century
Brandis (Tyrol)	since 1140	South Tyrolean noble family; 1580 old gentry (baron); 1641 Imperial Count
Burning bad	since 1321	Westphalian noble family
Brandt	since 1221	old, Frankish noble family
Brandt	since 1275	Brandenburg noble family
Brash	since 18th century	German-Baltic noble family whose origins lie in Mecklenburg
Brauchitsch	since 1259	old, Silesian noble family
brown	?	Saxon, since 1760 also Austrian noble family; Elevated to the baron status in 1764
brown	since 1285	Lower Silesian nobility; 1573 imperial barons, 1699 Bohemian barons, 1860 Prussian recognition of the barons
Braunmühl	since the beginning of the 17th century	Swabian noble family, 1759 imperial and herbalist-Austrian aristocracy as noble von Braunmühl, 1813 entry in the Bavarian nobility register
Braunshorn	1098-1362	noble noble family of the Middle Ages
Shower (brudzewski)	1256	widely ramified, Pomeranian noble family
Bray	since 1210	from Normandy, later Bavarian aristocratic family; 1813 Bavarian counts;
Bredenvlet	around 1330 to the 15th century	old, Bremen and Holstein noble families
Brederlow	since 1319	old, Pomeranian noble family
Bredow	since 1251	old, Middle Mark noble family; 1634 Imperial Barons; 1674 Imperial Count
Breidbach	since 1247	Rhineland noble family
Breidenbach to Breidenstein	since 1146	Hessian nobility
Breitenbach	1372 to 18th century	Vogtland-Saxon-Thuringian noble family
Breitenbuch (Breitenbauch)	since 1154	old, Thuringian noble family
Breitenegg	11th to 15th century	Noble, old Bavarian noble family that named themselves after their headquarters in Prunn, Laaber and Breitenegg
Breitscheid	13th to 16th century	Noble family in the Eifel	-
Bremen	from 1072	Noble family from Bremen	-
Bremgarten	12th to 14th century	a Swiss noble family based in Bremgarten near Bern	-
Brendel von Homburg	1160-1630	Nobility from Hesse
Brenken	since 1102	aristocratic, Westphalian noble family with the parent company of the same name near Büren
Brenkenhoff		extinct, Prussian noble family, which is continued in the Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff line of the Knobelsdorff family.
Brenner from Felsach	since 1675	Austrian noble family; 1836 Austrian barons;	-
Brentano	since 1282	noble Lombard family; 14th century counts for House B.-Toccia; 1857 Austrian baron for house B. Gnosso; two noble families from Brentano have different coats of arms than the noble Brentano
Bresnitz	13-15 century	old, Bohemian noble family;	-
Bretzenheim	since 18th century	Palatine-Bavarian noble family
Breverns	since 1694	German-Baltic noble family from Livonia and Estonia
Breuberg	1118-1323	noble-free primeval nobility from the Odenwald; Governors of the Wetterau
Breuner	since around 1200	Austrian noble family
Briesen	1) 1298 2) 1212 3) 1839	Three noble families 1) Briesen (Mark) 2) Briesen (Neumark-Pommern) 3) Briesen (1839)	Briesen (Mark) Briesen (Neumark-Pomerania)
Briest	since 1368	Magdeburg nobility
Brincken	since 1461	Baltic German aristocratic family originally from Westphalia, 1862 Russian baron title for the entire family
Britzke (Brietzke)	since 1370	Magdeburg nobility
Brobergen	1141-1618	old noble family from Brobergen an der Oste
Brockdorff	since 1220	Danish-Holstein nobility; 1432 barons; 1706 Imperial Count
Chunks	?	extinct, Mecklenburg noble family, which goes back to a bourgeois family from Lübeck
Brockhausen	circa 1650	Westphalian-Baltic noble family
Brockhusen	since 1271	Pomeranian nobility
Broesigke	since 1259	Old Mark nobility
Brömbsen	since 1289	first Lüneburg, then Lübeck patrician family; 1688 imperial baron;	_{Family coat of arms} _{increased coat of arms}
Brömsen	?	Baltic noble family whose origins can be found in Lüneburg and Lübeck or Jönköping
Broich	1093-1372	Noblemen; Owner of the Broich estate near Mülheim an der Ruhr
Broich	1320	Jülich nobility; In 1816 he was raised to the Dutch nobility with the title of baron and in 1834 to the Prussian baron class
Broizem	since 1234	Brunswick councilors and ancient nobility; 1706 Prussian nobility recognition
Bromberg	13th to 15th century	Wuerttemberg noble family
Bronkhorst	1140 to?	extinct noble family from Rekheim (now Rekem ) on the Meuse, which was immediately part of the empire
Bronsart from Schellendorff	since 1339	old, Prussian noble family
Bridge called jib	since 17th century	German-Baltic aristocratic family that had lived in the former Old Livonia and later Duchy of Courland and Semigallia since the middle of the 17th century
Brüggen, from the	since the 12th century	originally Westphalian, later Baltic noble family
Brügghen	?	Rhineland and Dutch noble families
Bruehl	since 1344	Saxon-Thuringian nobility; 1737 and 1738 imperial count status
Bruiningk	until 1927	extinct, German-Baltic noble family
Grunt	since 1529	German-Baltic noble family	_{Brummer-Tammik} _{Brummer-Seijershof}
Brumsee	1394-1813	Prussian family, a tribe with the Swiss Brümsi
Brumsi	since 1239	Swiss noble and patrician family of the city of Schaffhausen in the canton of the same name
Well	since 1237	Medieval aristocratic family. 1853 Prussian name and coat of arms association with those of Kaufungen as von Brunn called von Kauffungen .
Brünnow	1307-1941	Pomeranian nobility, moved to Courland as Brunnow in the 16th century , enrolled in the 1st class of the Courland Knight's Bank in 1620, Russian indigenous people in 1817, Russian recognition of the baron title in 1853/1862, Russian earl status in 1871
Brunones	10-11 century	Saxon counts	-
Brunstein by Brunicki	18th century	Landowners from Southeastern Europe, of Jewish origin, Bavarian. Aristocratic and baron status in 1815, Austrian recognition in 1818, Austrian baron status in 1847
Brusewitz	since 1218	Mecklenburg family, early expansion to Pomerania and Silesia, later also to Prussia
Brzeziński		Pomeranian, Prussian and Polish noble families
Bubenberg	until 1506	Bernese ministerial and patrician family
Bubenhofen	1250-1812	Swabian noble family
Bubna	1394	Primeval nobility, of Bohemian origin; since 1415 two lines: Bubna-Litic and Bubna-Warlich .	^Bubna-Litic
book	since 1209 (ancient nobility); since 1858 (post office)	Brandenburg primeval nobility and post office nobility of different coats of arms	^{Book (Uradel)}
Book (Thuringia)	1147 – after 1332	Noble noble family with ancestral castle in Bucha
Buchegg	1130 to mid-14th century	The original noble family of the counts has died out, but lived on through the female line as barons of Buchegg.	_{Counts of Buchegg} _{Baron coat of arms}
Buchenau (Eiterfeld)	1062-1815	Primeval noble family from East Hesse
Buchenau (Dautphetal)	1265-1404	Primeval noble family from Central Hesse
Buchholtz	since 1464	Courland-Prussian noble family
Buchwald (t)	since 1233	Holstein nobility; 1675 Swedish baron, 1784 Danish baronate as Buchwald-Brockdorff
Buchwitz (and Buchau)	since 1524	Silesian noble family, 1577 baron, in the 17th and 18th times the additional name and Buchau leader
Budberg	since 1313	Westphalian family, 1570 in Courland, 1620 and 1833 indigenous peoples ibid., 1693 Swedish barons, 1747 and 1807 Livonian indigenous people, 1746 Estonian indigenous people, 1856 and 1862 Russian barons
Budde	(††)	several Westphalian, Pomeranian and Mecklenburg prehistoric noble families, which spread to Courland on the one hand, and Denmark, Oesel and Norway on the other; still a Prussian nobility family (1904)
Buddenbrock	since 1415	Westphalian, later Baltic nobility; 1731 Swedish barons
Books	1173 to around 1600	Primeval noble family from the eastern Wetterau
Büdingen	First mentioned in 1131, extinct in 1240/47	noble-free sex of the eastern Wetterau	-
Bülow	since 1229	extensive, Mecklenburg prehistoric noble family with branches in the Netherlands, Denmark; 1705 Imperial Barons; 1736 imperial count; 1905 Prussian princes.
Bültzing lions incl. Bültzing lions at Haynrode	since 1216	Thuringian noble family
Bünau	since 1166	Uradel of the Naumburg Monastery; 1741, 1742 and 1792 Imperial Counts for different lines
Buer	1292-1809 / 13	Westphalian, later Bergisch and Palatinate nobility; 1642 imperial baron status; 1713 Imperial Counts
Büren	12th century to 1661	Westphalian noble family
Office	from 12th century	Swiss noble family; later under the name Aarburg
Buhrmeister	since the 16th century	German-Baltic-Swedish noble family
Buggenhagen	since 1284	Pomeranian nobility
Bunge	since 18th century	German-Russian-Baltic noble family
Buol	since 1298	originally Bohemian, later Swiss noble family
Buol-Berenberg	1529	Knight family from Raetia; 1707 Imperial knighthood with von Berenberg; 1857 Baden recognition of the baron status
Buquoy	since 1150	Bohemian noble family of French origin; in the Holy Roman Empire German nation since the Thirty Years War ; 1580 count estate; 1688 Spanish-Dutch princes
Burchardinger (Raetia)	10th century	noble family of the 10th century with property in Raetia	-
Burchardinger (France)	891-1017	early French noble family	-
Burchart Bélavary de Sycava	?	old, Hungarian-German-Baltic noble family
Castle Hill	Early 12th century to 1455	Black Forest noble family
Burghausen-Schala	11th to 12th century	Austrian counts	-
Burghauß	† 1885	Silesian noble family, 1617 baron, 1691 imperial count
Burgistein	since 1260	Swiss noble family
Burgsdorff	since 1325	Mittelmark primal nobility
Burgundy	1032-1361	Family of the Dukes of Burgundy
Burgundy Ivrea	9. to mid-16th century	Family of the European nobility	-
Burgundy (Portugal)	1093-1383	first Portuguese royal house
Burkersroda	since 1120	Thuringian nobility
Buseck	since 1152	old, Lahngau noble family; 1809 barons
buses	since 1748	Silesian noble family
Bush	since 1225	Osnabrück nobility; 1884 baronial status for all lines; 1810 Westphalian count class
Bussnang	12th to 15th century	Noble family in what is now Eastern Switzerland
Buttlar, Buttler, Treusch von Buttlar	since 1170	old, Upper Franconian-Hessian noble family; 1651 hereditary-Austrian counts; 1726 imperial count status; 1782, 1813 and 1882 barons for different branches;
Buxhoeveden	since 1185	Lower Saxon, later German-Baltic nobility; 1795 Prussian counts; 1861 Russian baron title
Byern	since 1214	Magdeburg nobility
Bylandt	since 1233	Klevian nobility