List of German noble families / C

C.

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Calice	since approx. 1247	Italian-Austrian noble family; 1672 imperial barons; 1872 confirmation of the Austrian baron status; 1906 Austrian counts
Callenberg	1240-1850	extinct, German noble family; 1651 imperial barons; 1671 imperial count
Calw	9th century to 1361	high medieval noble family
Campe (Braunschweig)	since approx. 1212	Brunswick primal nobility, 1813 Westphalian, 1876 Prussian and 1878 Mecklenburg-Schwerin recognition of the baron class
Campe (Hildesheim)	since 1142	Hildesheim nobility
Campenhausen	since 1595	Livonian noble family, 1665 and 1667 Swedish nobility, 1672 admission to the Swedish knighthood, 1742 enrollment with the Livonian knighthood, 1744 Swedish baron class, 1854 Russian recognition as barons
Canitz / Kanitz	since 1185	Meissen nobility with the Canitz and Kanitz tribes; Canitz: imperial baron status 1698; Canitz- u. Dallwitz: Bohemian baron 1664; Kanitz: 1798 Prussian count class
(Raven) from Canstein	since 1106	Westphalian nobility; 1657 hereditary barons
Capler of Oedheim	1235-1967	proven German aristocratic family since the 13th century; enrolled in the baron class in the Kingdom of Württemberg
Capol	since 1377	old Swiss noble family from the canton of Graubünden
Cappenberg	11-12 century	Westphalian counts
Carbene	1217-1729	The Wetterau noble family has been proven since the 13th century
Carl von Hohenbalken	1193 to the 18th century	old ministerial family in Val Müstair (German Münstertal, Italian Val Monastero) in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
Carlowitz	since 1311	old Saxon noble family
Carlsburg	1712	Noble family from Sweden; 1712 Imperial nobility
Carnap	before 1570	old merchant and councilor family in Barmen and Elberfeld; 1825 Prussian nobles and barons
Carnitz	1374-1808	Pomeranian nobility, 1791 Prussian counts
Castelberg	since 1289	Bündner aristocratic family; originally from Luven in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
Castell	since 1057	Franconian, noble family of counts and princes
Častolowitz	14th and 15th centuries	Bohemian noble family	-
Cavallar from Trench Leap	since 1856	Austro-Bohemian noble family allegedly descending from Istria; 1856 Austrian knighthood
Cavriani	since 12th century	old Italian noble family, which later was allowed to count itself among the Austrian nobility
Cene	13th to 15th centuries	extinct, Mecklenburg noble family	-
Ceumern	since 1662	German-Baltic noble family
Chamerauer	11th to 15th century	Bavarian noble family
Chapeaurouge	?	originally from the Dauphiné, possibly also from Strasbourg aristocratic family, which later u. a. was based in Geneva and Hamburg
Chappuis	since 1401	comes as "de la Combaz" or "Combaz, called Chappuis" from French-speaking Switzerland, Prussian hereditary nobility in 1794
Charpentier	?	Swedish, Saxon, Finnish, Russian and Prussian noble families
Châtenois	since 11th century	Dukes of (Upper) Lorraine; derive in a direct line from the Matfrieden	-
Chevallerie	?	originally French, later Prussian noble family
Chiari	since 1908	originally Italian family who came to Austria in the 18th century; 1908 hereditary Austrian baron status
Chlingensperg	since 1693	Bavarian noble family
Chodkiewicz	since 15th century	Polish noble family of Lithuanian-Ruthenian origin, 1655 imperial count
Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin	since 1115	old Bohemian noble family; 1745 imperial count status
Choustnik	since the 12th century	Bohemian noble family	-
Christalnigg from and to Gillitzstein	since 1575	Austrian noble family wealthy in Carinthia; 1575 Imperial nobility
Cilli	14th Century	Descendants of the noble noble family of the Lords von Sanneck; 1341 count estate; 1436 imperial princes
Cimburg	1143 to the beginning of the 16th century	old, Bohemian noble family
Cirksena	before 1439	East Frisian noble family
Clairon d'Haussonville	since 1260	Burgundian, later Lorraine family de Cléron , 1487 Baron de Saffres, 1620 Baron d'Haussonville, 17th century comte d'Haussonville, 1740 Bohemian incolate in the lordship, 1789 Prussian recognition of the counts
Clam Gallas	1757-1930	Bohemian noble family
Clam Martinic	since 1209	old Austrian noble family, related to the extinct noble family Clam-Gallas, the so-called "younger line" of the Counts of Clam
Clary-Aldringen	before 14th century	Count and princely family from Cividale in Friuli
(Clausen von) Clausenheim	since 1703	Schleswig-Holstein noble family
Cleen	Mid-13th century to around 1530	Wetterauer ministerial family
Clodt from Juergensburg	since 1566	German-Baltic noble family, 1566 Polish nobility diploma, 1714 Swedish barons
Cloedt	12th Century	Westphalian nobility
Close	12th century to 1856	extinct, Bavarian and Rhenish noble family
Cob from Nüdingen	since 15th century	Lorraine-Luxembourgish noble family based in Bitburg
Cobenzl	since the 16th century	aristocratic Carinthian family, which was then resident in Carniola and Gorizia and finally in Bohemia; 1563 imperial nobility
Cocceji	1702-1808	Prussian noble family originating from Bremen, 1702 Prussian nobility, 1713 with salutation "Well-born" imperial baron, 1749 Prussian baron
Cölln	1271-1660	extinct, Mecklenburg noble family
Coels	14th century	Belgian and Prussian noble families
Colditz	1636	old, Saxon noble family also settled in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
Collalto	?	Austrian noble family of Lombard origin, whose name goes back to the village of Collalto in Susegana in today's province of Treviso
Collas	since 1390	old noble family from Normandy
van Collen	since 15th century	originally aachen, later Dutch noble family	-
Colloredo	since 1302	Bohemian-Austrian noble family; 1588 confirmation of imperial barons; 1724 imperial count; 1763 Imperial prince and establishment of the Colloredo Mansfeld line.	Family coat of arms Colloredo-Mansfeld
Colonna	since the 11th century	Roman noble family;
Consolati from and to Heiligenbrunn	since the middle of the 15th century	Aristocratic family from an old Tridentine patrician dynasty that gained recognition in Austria and Bavaria
Coreth to Coredo and Starkenberg / Rumo	since 12th century	old noble family who came to Tyrol from Italy; 1698 baron class; 1745 hereditary-Austrian old imperial barons and pennants; 1766 imperial and 1772 hereditary counts
Cornberg	1553	morganatic, Hessian noble family
Corswant	since 1698	Pomeranian noble family, first appears in Greifswald in 1393, imperial ennoblement in 1698, Brandenburg nobility recognition in 1699
Cortenbach	since 1381	Limburg noble family
Cosel	since 1667	Brandenburg-Prussian noble family
Cosijn from Ripperda	since 1810	youngest branch of the imperial baronial family von Ripperda
Cossel	since 1752	Mecklenburg noble family
Cossonay	1096-1394	extinct noble family from Vaud	-
Cottenau / Kottenau	1289-1614	Franconian nobility
Coudenhove-Kalergi	?	Bohemian-Austrian noble family; 1790 imperial count status	-
Cotzhausen	since around 1520	originally Hessian family, then Rhineland aristocratic family, 1699 - 1842/45 owned by the Kambach family , 1808 acquisition of the Wedau manor, 1811 French Baron de l'Empire, 1828 Prussia. Recognition of the baron title
Crailsheim	since 1221	Franconian-Swabian nobility
Cramer	1742-1815	Lower Saxony lawyers and merchants
Cramer from Clausbruch	since about 1300	City family of the free imperial city of Eger, which spread to Electoral Saxony, Lower Saxony and the Rhineland since the 16th century
Cramm	since 1150	Lower Saxon nobility, later barons
Cramon	since 1245	Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility
Creuzburg	1242 to the 18th century	one of the oldest Thuringian noble families; extinguished.
Creytz or Belzig von Kreutz	since 1154	Old Eastern Meissnian noble family, entered the Duchy of Prussia around 1500, Imperial Counts in 1572, Polish Indigenous in 1632, Prussian Counts in 1632, Confirmation of Counts in 1743, Polish recognition of Counts in 1775, Courland Indigenous in 1833, Russian recognition of Counts in 1839	Creytz (Kreutz) Belzig von Kreutz
Cronegg	since 1663	Noble family of old origin in Carinthia; Lower Austrian rural nobility; 1663 imperial count status
Crousaz	since 1248	Vaudois nobility, 1742 imperial barons, 1786 and 1797 Silesian incolate
Croy	first half of the 12th century	Noble family from the county of Ponthieu (Picardy / France); 1473 French counts; 1594 and 1664 imperial count status; 1486 imperial princes; 1518 Spanish-Dutch marquis and duke class; 1598 French ducal estate
Cube	since the 16th century	German-Baltic noble family, originally from the Mark Brandenburg
Czapski	since 1395	Pomeranian, Polish, Prussian and Russian noble families
Czartoryski	since 1341	Polish-Lithuanian princely family
Czernin from and to Chudenitz	since 1193	Bohemian nobility; 1607 Imperial Barons; 1623 imperial count status
Czettritz	since 1243	Silesian nobility, Bohemian and Prussian rankings