List of German noble families / E

E.

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Eberhardinger	889 to 12th century	Swabian counts of the early and high Middle Ages	-
Ebersberg	906-1045	also Counts von Sempt-Ebersberg from the Bavarian Sieghardinger family
Ebersberg called by Weyhers	11th to mid-18th century	Franconian noble family
Eberstein	1085-1660	Swabian counts
Eberstein (Franconia)	since 1239	old, Frankish (Buchonian) noble family; 1881 Prussian recognition of the baron class
Eberstein-Naugard	13-17 century	Pomeranian counts	-
Eberz	since 1543	Patrician family from Isny im Allgäu
Ebinger from the castle	793-1808	Swabian nobility
Ebner from Eschenbach	since 1251	one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1813 enrolled in the Bavarian nobility as a noble; 1825 as a baron
Real one	12th century to 1665	Ministerial noble family in the service of the Archbishops of Mainz
Eck from Kelheim	?	Bavarian noble family
Ecker	since 1103	Bavarian noble family; Ministeriale of the Counts of Bogen
Eckersberg	1185 to the 19th century (?)	Thuringian-Franconian knight family; later also in Silesia
Eckher von Kapfing	1412-1820	extinct, Bavarian noble family
Eddingerode	1318–1570 (?)	extinct, Lower Saxon barons	-
Edelbeck	until 1730	old, Lower Bavarian noble family
Edelsheim	since 1673	Hanau-Hessian noble family
Edling	until 1870	extinct Austrian-Slovenian noble family from Swabia; 1501 confirmation of the old nobility; 17th century hereditary barons; 1697 Imperial Counts
Egerberg	13-14 century	medieval Bohemian noble family	-
Egerdon	13-14 century	Alemannic noble family	-
Eggenberg	1448-1717	Austrian patrician family from Styria; 1598 baron, 1623 imperial prince, 1628 duke
Egidy	since 1687	Saxon noble family since 1687 (imperial nobility diploma and coat of arms improvement)
Egloffstein	since 1187	Franconian nobility; Barons; 1786 Prussian counts
Marriage home	1230-1645	Franconian-Swabian noble family
Ehingen	until 1608	extinct, Swabian noble family
Ehrenberg	12th century to 1647	Franconian-Swabian noble family
Ehrenberg (Lower Moselle)	12th century to 1396	West German noble family (Middle Rhine / Lower Moselle)
Ehrenfels	since 1256	Ministerial sex of the Hochstift Regensburg
Honor crook	since 1682	German noble family originating from Sweden; 1682 ennobled and introduced to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood; 1771 Swedish barons; Swedish line 1781 †
Eibiswald	since 1527	old Styrian barons with the headquarters of the same name Castle Eibiswald in the market town of Eibiswald in Styria in Austria
Eichborn	since the 17th century	Prussian noble family; 1840 Prussian nobility
Eichendorff	since 1237	First noble family from the Archdiocese of Magdeburg; 1679 old Bohemian barons
Eichmann	since 1701 since 1860	German postal nobility (1701 Prussian nobility) originating from Western Pomerania, German postal nobility originating from Berlin (1860 Prussian nobility)
Eichstedt	since 1163 and since 1786	two sexes: 1. Old Mark old nobility, 2. Postal aristocracy
Eichstetten	12th Century	Noble free in Breisgau	-
Eichthal	1814 to?	Jewish noble family; 1814 as Baron von Eichthal, Bavarian nobility; extinguished in the male line	-
Eickstedt	since (1129) 1296	old, Pomeranian noble family; 1753 and 1840 Prussian count Eickstedt-Peterswaldt († 1977); 1883, 1884, 1885 and 1887 Prussian barons
One	since 1284	German noble family from Einbeck in Lower Saxony
Einsiedel	since 1299	old, Meissen noble family
Eisenberger	before 1409-1607	Official family ( Amt Ortenberg ), raised to hereditary knighthood in 1563, died out in 1607
Iron castle	1208-1475	old gentlemen from Upper Swabia
Eisenhart (Eisenhart-Rothe)	since 1706	aristocratic family of Brandenburg; 1786 Prussian nobility
Eissner from and to Eisenstein	since 1691	Austro-Bohemian noble family	-
Ekbertines	from 809	Franconian aristocratic family based in Saxony	-
Ekesparre	since 17th century	Baltic-Swedish noble family
Ekkehardiner	985-1046	extinct, German noble family from the Thuringian area	-
Elves	2nd half of the 12th century to 1535	North Hessian, noble noble family
Ellenbrunn	12th to 15th century	Bavarian noble family	-
Eller	1151-1819	Rhenish noble family
Ellerbach	12th to 16th century	Swabian-Austrian noble family
Ellrodt	since the beginning of the 17th century	Noble family in the service of the Principality of Bayreuth
Elmendorff	since 1323	Westphalian nobility; 1860 Oldenburg, 1861 Prussian recognition of the baron class
Elmpt	13th century to 1818	Rhineland nobility; around 1700 imperial baron, 1790 imperial count
Elsner von Gronow	since 1550	Silesian noble family, Silesian nobility since 1787, nobility renewal in 1807
Parents	1514	Ore Mountains mail nobility; 1766 Imperial nobility with a new coat of arms	¹⁵¹⁴ ¹⁷⁶⁶
Eltz	since 1150	Highly free, Moselle native noble family, 1646 confirmation of the lordship, 1733 imperial count, 1816 entry in the count class of the aristocratic registers in the Kingdom of Bavaria, 1827 Prussian recognition of the baron	^{Line from and to Eltz} ^{Eltz-Rübenach line}
Eltz	?	Lower Saxon noble family
Elverfeldt	since 1257	old Westphalian noble family, also barons
Embrichons	?	four agnatic lines: the Counts in the Rheingau, the Ministeriales von Heppenheft, the Rheingrafen and the Rheingrafen vom Stein	-
Embs	before 1523 (extinct)	Franconian noble family;
Emichons	from 940	Forerunners of several noble families in southwest Germany; Members were - possibly as subgraves of the Salier - Gaugrafen in Nahegau	-
Emmendorfer	1119 to 15th century	extinct, German noble family
Ems / Hohenems	since 1170	Noble and knight family in Vorarlberg; counts since 1560
Enckevort	since the 13th century	old, Brabant, Austrian, Brandenburg-Pomeranian counts and barons
The End	since 1222	Saxon nobility
Enenkel / Enenkels	?	Upper and Lower Austrian noble family; 1594 Baron and Lower Austrian gentry
Engdes	13th to 18th century	extinct, German-Baltic noble family
Angel	since 1662	Mecklenburg noble family, 1662 Swedish aristocracy without introduction, 1739 knightly imperial aristocracy, 1790 (1798) admission to the Mecklenburg knighthood, 1851 Austrian knighthood, in the meantime also served in Saxony and wealthy in Livonia
Engelbrecht	since 1442	Prussian noble family, 1727 imperial renewal of the nobility, 1728 Hanoverian nobility recognition, 1728 imperial nobility, 1910 and 1912 Prussian nobility
Engelbrecht	1260 to 1445	Alsatian noble family
Engelbrecht	15th century to around 1700	Limburg noble family, spread to Aachen, Cologne, Amsterdam and Hamburg, 1653 imperial recognition of the imperial nobility plus improvement of the coat of arms
Engelbrecht (en)	since 1489	Vorpommersches noble family, 1684 as von Engelbrechten Swedish aristocracy, 1744 as von Engelbrecht imperial aristocracy, 1868 enrollment with the Bavarian knighthood, 1814 Swedish nobility legitimation, 1881/1882 Prussian name and coat of arms association of Engelbrechten-Ilow
Engelhardt	since 1496	Baltic noble family, 1734 Swedish nobility, 1742 introduction, 1745 Estonian, 1747 Livonian a. 1841 Courland indigenous people, 1853, 1854 a. 1862 Russian barons
Engl from Wagrain	since 1598	Upper Austrian noble family named after the noble seat Wagrain near Vöcklabruck; 1598 accepted into the young and 1615 into the old knighthood; 1681 baron and 1717 imperial count
Ense	since the 13th century	Westphalian knight dynasty (see also Varnhagen )
Enslingen	13th century to 1534	South German noble family
Wrestle	1075-1352	Swabian noble family
Enzberg	1236	Noble family from Mühlheim an der Donau; Ministerials, imperial knights, barons
Enzenberg	1183 / 1190-1535	Tyrolean counts; 1671 barons, 1764 imperial counts
Eppan	until 1300	Tyrolean counts; illegitimate descendants of the older Guelphs	-
Eppenberg	since 1222	Ministerial sex from Toggenburg in Switzerland
Eppenstein / Eppensteiner	14th century	Habsburg-Austrian ministerial family in Thurgau in today's Switzerland
Eppstein	1183 / 1190-1535	extinct, German nobility;
Erbach	1148	old ministerial family; 1532 Elevation to the rank of imperial count
Erdmannsdorff	since 1206	Meißnerisches nobility, due to a morganatic marriage , one line carries the title Graf or Countess von Reina	^{Prussian lines} ^{Saxon lines}
Erffa	1170 to?	Thuringian nobility; 1702 imperial barons
Erlach	since 13th century	First noble family of the sovereign city and republic of Bern
Erlbeck	? probably extinguished	old, Bavarian noble family
Erligheim	around 1150 to around 1550	old Palatinate or Electoral Palatinate ministerial family
Ernestiner	since 1485	German princely family	-
Serious	9th to 11th century	Franconian noble family	-
Erthal	1170-1805	old, Frankish noble family
Erwitte	1178 to circa 1670	old Westphalian noble family
Erzingen	1353-1529	South German noble family in the Landgraviate of Klettgau
Esch	from 1131	two noble families from the Rhineland, not related to each other
Escheberg	1217 to 15th century	originally in the north Hessian village of Escheberg resident lower nobility; Member of the knighthood of the Principality of Paderborn
Eschenbach	Mid-12th century to 1343	Noble family of the Swiss plateau
Escherte / Escherde	from 1249	Lower Saxon noble family
Eschwege	since 1141	Hessian nobility
Eschweiler	from 1145	Rhineland nobility
Esebeck	since 1188	Braunschweiger nobility family; 1740 imperial barons, 1834, 1838 and 1874 entry in the baron class of the Bavarian aristocratic registers, 1861 Prussian barons (primogenitur), 1868 expansion of the Prussian barons (unlimited)
Eselsberg	1194-1252	noble, Swabian noble family
Es icons	around 813 to 1076 (?)	medieval counts	-
Esplingerode	since 1266	Lower Saxon noble family
eat	-	several noble families: Essen (1643), Essen (1663), Essen (1681), Essen (1706, 1782), of which the first was raised to the status of Swedish barons in 1717 and to the status of count in 1809	_{Essen, 1643} _{Food Arnsberg} _{Essen, 1663}
Esterházy	since 1549	Hungarian magnate family, from which members received the Hungarian baronate in 1613, the Hungarian counts in 1633 + 1715 and the imperial princes in 1626.
Estorff	since 1162	Lower Saxon nobility of a tribe with those of Schack
Etichons	Mid-7th to 13th century	Alsatian ducal family	-
Etzbach	since 1290	Lower nobility from the town of the same name in the Westerwald
Etzdorff	since 1219	Eastern nobility; In 1682 he became an Austrian Baron, in 1683 he was recognized by Bavaria, in 1790 he was an imperial count, and in 1813 he was a Bavarian count
Eulenburg	since 1170/72	Upper Saxon nobility; Lords and Counts
Everstein	1116-1413	Noblemen and counts
Eyb	since 1165	old, Frankish noble family
Eyben	since 1682	East Frisian noble family, confirmation of imperial nobility in 1682, Danish feudal counts in 1827
Eyczinger	?	Bavarian-Austrian noble family
Eynatten	1213	old noble family from the Lower Rhine; 1635 imperial baron status
Eynern	since 1412	Noble family from the County of Mark
Ezzonen	989-1085	Lorraine Count Palatine	-