List of German noble families / G

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Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Gabelentz	since 1221 (1106?)	old, Meissen noble family
Forked oven	1334 to?	extinct, Lower Bavarian nobility; 1630 and 1652 hereditary-Austrian baron class; 1715 and 1718 heirloan-Austrian counts
Gablenz	since 1221	Niederlausitz noble family
Gadendorp	until 1646?	extinct, Holstein noble family
Gadow	since 1333	old, aristocratic Brandenburg family
Gaffron	since July 17, 1329	Silesian nobility
Gagern	since 1290	old, Rügen noble family
Gaisberg	since 1352	old, Swabian noble family; 1824 Wuerttemberg confirmation of the baron status
Gaisruck	until 1862	extinct, Styrian noble family originating in Switzerland, which u. a. belongs to the Lower Austrian rural nobility and also branched out in Carinthia and Carniola; Imperial Counts
Galen	since 1138	Westphalian nobility; 1655 imperial barons, 1702 imperial counts
Gall	since 1307	Noble family with northern Italian roots, whose barons were recognized in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Kingdom of Prussia
Galler	since approx. 1115	one of the oldest noble families in Styria; also rural nobility in Lower Austria
Gamm	since 1218	Mecklenburg sex; temporarily spread to Denmark and Silesia; 1776 Danish indigenous community; 1858 kuk Freiherrnstand
Gammertingen	1101 to the 13th century	extinct, Swabian counts	-
Goose (Merseburg)	1269 to the end of the 16th century	Merseburg noble family
Goose (Lower Saxony)	since 1912	Lower Saxon noble family	-
Goose from Otzberg	before 1300 to 1698	extinct noble family from the Odenwald
Goose to Putlitz	since 1190	Mittelmark primal nobility; 1876 Prussian recognition of the title of baron
Garczynski	since 1440	also counts, Pomeranian old nobility, of a tribe with the Klinski and Rautenberg (Hildesheim)
Garmissen	since 1230	Lower Saxon nobility
Gashin	since around 1400	Polish noble family; 1632 Bohemian barons; 1633 hereditary-Austrian count as Gashin von Rosenberg; 1653 imperial count status
On the streets	(14th Century)	in the Middle Ages Ministerials of the Counts of Tyrol
Gate castle	since 1561	Upper Austrian noble family; Knighted in 1561, Austrian knighthood in 1653, Hungarian knighthood in 1666
Gaudlitz / Gaudelitz		old, Meissen noble family
Gaudy / Gaudi	since 1613	Prussian noble family
Gaugreben	since 1172	extinct, Westphalian-Waldeck noble family; 1847 Prussian approval for the continuation of the baron title that has been used since ancient times.
Gavel	since 17th century	Swedish-Baltic noble family
Gayling from Altheim	since 1223	extinct Maingau nobility; 1773 French recognition of the baron status for the entire family; the descendants of Olga Gayling von Altheim , married to Otto Westphal, have called themselves von Gayling-Westphal since 1986 .
Give / give-Schueser	since 1236	old noble family from Freiburg im Breisgau
Gebsattel	since 1240	old, Frankish noble family
Kindly from Jungsfeld	since 1530	Upper Rhine noble family
Geilsdorf	until 1618	extinct, Vogtland and Franconian noble family
Geismar	since 1185	Westphalian noble family
Gelmini from Kreutzhof	since 1788	South Tyrolean nobility from northern Italy
Gemen	1092-1498	Westphalian noble family
Gemmingen	since 1233	Swabian nobility from the Kraichgau; matriculated in Württemberg in the baron class.
Gentil de Lavallade	since the end of the 15th century	from the French county of Périgord originating from the postal nobility; 1515 French nobility; 1890 Prussian recognition.
Gentilotti	since 1617	patrician family from the area of Val Camonica; 1617 inner Austrian nobility; 1729 Austrian baron
Gentzkow	since 1304	First noble family of Stargard.
Gera	since 12th century	Thuringian noble family
Germar	1220-1940	old, Thuringian-Saxon, formerly ministerial and imperial knightly family
Germershausen	1260-1624	Hessian noble family
Gladly	before 1640	Wuerttemberg family from Heidelsheim, Eppingen, Wimpfen ( "Your coat of arms that you had earlier" ...., two yellow against each other in the blue or glaze-colored shield, the Saxons turned inwards, eagle wings.)
Gladly from Lilienstein	since 1640	Wuerttemberg noble family
Gladly	?	several non-related noble and patrician families in the German-speaking area	_{Gernerth Austria} _{Gernert Thuringia}
Gernet	?	several non-related noble and patrician families in the German-speaking area	_{Gernet Estonia} _{Gernet Switzerland}
Geroldons	799 to 10th century	Frankish nobility from the Carolingian era	-
Geroldseck	1139-1634	Noble family of the Middle Ages in the Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg
Gerschau / Gerschau from Flotow	since 18th century	Courland noble family
Gersdorff	since 1241	widely ramified nobility from Upper Lusatia, which is divided into eleven houses; 1672 imperial barons; 1723 and 1745 imperial counts; 1841 Prussian barons
Gerulfinger	839-1299	Family of the first counts of (West) Friesland and Holland	-
Geuder von Heroldsberg	since 1253 (extinct in the male line)	one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1822 barons
Geusau	since 1116	Thuringian nobility, later also Dutch and Austrian barons
Geyer from Edelbach	since 1562	Lower Austrian noble family; 1665 as a baron
Geyer from Geyersegg	since 1623	Styrian noble family; 1623 knightly imperial nobility	-
Geyer from Geyersperg	since 1370	Austrian noble family from Franconia
Geyer von Giebelstadt	13th century to 1708	Franconian nobility; 1685 Imperial Count
Geymann	?	Upper Austrian noble family, which also belongs to the Lower Austrian rural nobility
Geymüller	since 1810	Swiss-Austrian family, first mentioned in 1581 in Turckheim in Alsace; from 1810 knight and from 1824 baron title	-
Geyr	since 1239	Paderborn city dynasty; 1717 Imperial knighthood as von Geyer Edler von Schweppenburg with improved coat of arms; 1743 imperial baron, 1826 Prussian recognition
Gfug	since 1437	Silesian, Saxon and Prussian noble families
Giech	before 1330 to 1938	old, Frankish noble family; Counts at the end of the 17th century
Gieboldehausen	1262-1524	Lower Saxon noble family
Giedraičiai	since 1263	Family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Giel	from 12th century	medieval ministerial family from the princely land in Switzerland
Gienger von Grienpichel	since 1265	Austrian noble family from Ulm
Greed	since 1910	Prussian noble family
Giese	since 1519	Patrician family from Unna in Danzig and Stettin
Gilleis	1273-1841	old Austrian noble family from Lower Austria; 1579 as a baron, in 1699 as a count
Gillern	since 1568	Letter post office; 1568 Bohemian nobility with von Lilienfeld; 1707 Hungarian barons and magnates; 1732 Bohemian, 1766 Austro-Erbländer barons
Gilsa	since 1224	old, Hessian noble family; 1813 Westphalian baronate (not recognized in Hesse and Prussia), 1872 Prussian approval of the title of baron
Gimped	since 1276	Primeval noble family of the Münster monastery
Giovanelli zu Gerstburg and Hörtenberg	?	South Tyrolean branch of an old noble family from near Bergamo	-
Girard de Soucanton	since 19th century	German-Baltic noble family with French descent
Girardi	?	Austrian noble family from Italy
Gisenstein	until 15th century	Swiss noble family from Gysenstein in today's Konolfingen municipality in the canton of Bern	-
Gisonens	11th and 12th centuries	Influential counts in northern Hesse	-
Gittelde	1143-1638	extinct, Lower Saxon noble family	-
Shimmer	since 1173	Austrian knight dynasty based at Odernheim Castle in Carinthia	-
Glasenapp	since 1287	Primeval noble family from Pomerania
Glaubitz	since 1275 until?	Saxon nobility, in 1699 and 1728 Bohemian gentry, 1700 and 1736 Bohemian baron, 1773 French recognition of the baronate, 1896 Baden recognition for the use of the baron title
Same including counts of Gleichenstein	1162-1631	extinct counts from Thuringia. A noble family of equals (since 1861) carried the coat of arms of the extinct counts.
Same gen. Of sootworm	since 1418	Thuringian nobility
Gleißenthal	since 1252	Upper Palatinate noble family
Glisberg	since 1036	Thuringian nobility
Gliszczyński	since 1374	various Pomeranian noble families
Gloeden	since 1276 and 1375	two families with different tribes and coats of arms which were spread in Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Pomerania	^Mecklenburg ^Uckermark
Glojach	until 1768	extinct noble family from Styria, which also belonged to the rural nobility in Lower Austria; 1630 Baron status
Glutz	since 1681/6	Swiss family from Solothurn, Switzerland, whose lines Glutz-Ruchti and Glutz von Blotzheim belonged to the patriciate of the city of Solothurn; 1686 French confirmation of the title of nobility	-
Goddenthow	since 1284	Primeval noble family from Pomerania
Goëss / Goëß	since 1370	Austrian noble family descended from a Dutch family; 1654 imperial barons, 1693 imperial counts
Göler of Ravensburg	since the 13th century	old Kraichgau noble family from the Swabian Imperial Knighthood
Brat	since 1323	Noble family from the Altmark
Görner	?	several non-tribal noble and patrician families	_{Görner Silesia} _{Görner Saxony}
Brat	since 1186	Central German nobility
Gorizia (Meinhardiner)	1107 to the 16th century	Princely family (dukes and counts)
Gösgen	1161-1383	Swiss high nobility family, which are documented in the late Middle Ages in the area of Obergösgen and Niedergösgen
Goessnitz	?	Saxon-Plissnian, early extinct ancient nobility	-
Goessnitz		Vogtland nobility from Jößnitz
Götsch	?	old Tyrolean noble family from Partschins
Götz von Olenhusen	since 1533	Lower Saxon noble family
Idols	since 1455	Primeval noble family from the Altmark, branch of those from Jeetze
Gogreve	since 1191	ravensberger, Westphalian noble family
Gohr	?	Courland noble family whose origins go back to the Dutch-Belgian noble family Horn
Gold from Lampoding	?	Salzburg noble family, which then came to Austria; 1623 Baron status
Gold field	since 1316	old, Thuringian noble family, which was also resident in the Neumark
Goldbeck	since 1274	Original aristocratic family from the Altmark, ancestral castle of the noble family is Goldbeck Castle in Altmark, members of the family were Saxon and Prussian chancellors (e.g. Grand Chancellor Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck )
Goldegg	12th century to 1400	aristocratic family verifiable in Salzburg, which probably emerged from the Lords of Pongau
Goldegg to Lindenburg	until 1986	old Tyrolean noble family registered in the state registers, as well as in the aristocratic registers of the Kingdom of Bavaria
Goltstein	since 1430	Old Rhineland noble family, 1657 imperial barons, 1694 imperial counts, 1827 Prussian recognition of the counts for the Breil line, 1850 Austrian recognition of the counts, 1820 and 1822 Dutch recognition of the baron title, 1829 enrollment in the baron class of the nobility register in the Prussian Rhine province
Goltz	since the end of the 14th century	old, Brandenburg noble family - later in Pomerania and East Prussia; Gentlemen, barons and counts
Gontard	since 1767	Old noble French family who settled in Germany around 1700 as Huguenot families fled Grenoble; 1767 Imperial knighthood
Gordon	since 1760	from the Scottish clan of the same name, the Prussian noble family; 1760 Prussian nobility confirmation
Gossler	since 1889	Hanseatic noble family
Goßler	since 1638	Family from the Egerland; 1813 Westphalian nobility and knighthood
Gotsmann	11th century to 1575	Franconian noble family
Gottberg	since around 1560	Mail nobility; Imperial nobility 1595
Gottfarth	since 1333	Noble family that was resident in the Thuringian, Frankish and Mansfeld lands	-
Gottsfeld	?	Franconian local noble family
Gotzkow	since sp. 18th century	Prussian sex	-
Gozmar	1062 to?	extinct family of Franconian counts in northern Hesse	-
Digging (of stone)	before 1170 to 1776	noble-free sex ( descending from the Meinhardins , possibly a tribe with the Lamberg ; burgraves and knights) originating in Carniola, which later resided in Styria, Lower Austria, Carinthia, East Tyrol and Tyrol (extinct). Descendants are the families Orsini-Rosenberg and (De) Graeff
Grabow	13th to 17th century	aristocratic family from Mecklenburg-Markbrandenburg
Grabow	since 1309	Pomeranian-Mecklenburg, later also Danish
Grabow		Brandenburg-Danish gender
Grabowski (Götzendorf)	since 1230	Pomeranian nobility, since 1786 and 1840 also counts
Graeve	since 1648	Prussian noble family
Graevemeyer	since 1745	Hanoverian postal nobility, knightly imperial nobility in Vienna in 1745
Graevenitz	since 1290	noble family from the Altmark; later reached Neumark and Prignitz in branches, the latter spread further to Mecklenburg, Silesia, Württemberg and Russia
Graffen	since 1662	Upper Austrian noble family that came to Prussia and Poland
Graffenried	since 1272	long-established, today still flourishing, formerly patrician family of the city of Bern
county	Beginning of the 12th century until 1572	medieval noble family
Grambov	13th century to 1773	Mecklenburg-Brandenburg family, spread to Denmark
Grand Ry	since 1773	Prussian and Belgian noble families
Grandidier	since 1803	German-Baltic noble family that came from Bar-Le-Duc in Lorraine and settled as a Huguenot family in the mid-18th century in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
Grandvillars	since the 11th century	French aristocratic family from the Territoire de Belfort department in the Franche-Comté region
Grape	since 1291	old, Pomeranian gender
Grattenauer	since 1660	Hungarian and Prussian noble families	-
Gray bird	since 1779	Mail nobility; 1779 nobility from the Palatinate Palatinate
Gravenreuth	since 1180	originally Upper Franconian nobility; 1813 barons; 1825 counts
Grebmer to Wolfsthurn	since 1497	Tyrolean noble family
Greck from Kochendorf	late 13th century to 1749	Lower noble family in Kochendorf (Bad Friedrichshall), Baden-Württemberg
To grab	1121 to the 17th century	Dynasty of the Dukes of Pomerania
Greifenstein	13th and 14th century	Noble noble family in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
Greiffenclau called Vollrads	since 1211	Hessian noble family, originally from Lorraine; 1644 imperial barons
Greigh	since 18th century	Baltic noble family with Scottish roots
Switch to forest	since 1229	old, originally Thuringian knight dynasty that came to Austria around 1500; 1607 Freiherrnstand
Garish	1302-1808	Aristocratic family from the Pomerania, meanwhile also wealthy in Mecklenburg
Grenchen	12th and 13th centuries	Burgundian noble family based at Grenchen Castle, north of Grenchen in what is now the municipality of Bettlach	-
Griesenberg	until 1324	Line of the Swiss aristocratic Bussnang family based at the (Alt-) Griesenberg castle
Griesheim	since 1133	Thuringian noble family
Griessheim	since 1050	old, extinct noble family from southern Baden
Grießenbeck from Grießenbach	since 1240	Lower Bavarian nobility; 1739 electoral Bavarian baron class
Grimming	since 1430	Salzburg noble family
Gristow	1249-1740	Rügen-Pomeranian noble family	-
Groeben	since 1140	old-market nobility; 1786 Prussian count status for various family members;
Gröglingen-Hirschberg	12th to early 14th century	extinct, Upper Palatinate-Middle Franconian noble family
Groland of Oedenberg	since 1305	one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
Grolman	since 15th century	Westphalian family; 1741/1812/1871 Prussian nobility for various family members;
Grone	since the 13th century	Braunschweig primeval nobility
Groote	since 1164	Gender from the county of Flanders; 1613 imperial barons
Groschlag to Dieburg	1236-1799	Franconian and South Hessian nobility; 1685 as a baron
Large	1274-1589	extinct patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg
Great from Trockau	since 1287	Franconian nobility; 1813 barons
Size	up to 19th century	extinct Upper Saxon-Meissen noble family
Grote (Lueneburg)	since 1162	Primeval nobility in the Principality of Lüneburg; 1689 Imperial Barons for the Schauen line; 1809 Prussian count for the Breese line.
Grote (Livonia)	since 1775	German-Baltic noble family; Elevated to imperial nobility in 1775
Grotenhielm	from 1677	extinct, Baltic-Swedish noble family
Grotthuss	since 1277	Westphalian nobility, which in the late Middle Ages spread to the Baltic States and later to Hanover and Prussia, several times as a baron
Pits	since 1334; 1493; 1523; 1776	several families: Kehdingen; Pomerania; Westphalia → 1822 Dutch aristocratic naturalization, 1824 Dutch barononate, 1829 the Prussian aristocratic naturalization, 1873 Austrian baron status, 1905 Bavarian aristocratic naturalization in the baron class; Rhineland → 1776 imperial nobility, 1805 imperial baron, 1815 Bavarian aristocracy naturalization in the baron class	_{Pits (Kehdingen)} _{Pits (pomerania)} _{Pits (Westphalia)}
Grubo from Grubenhagen	12th to 15th century	Lower Saxony ministerial family in the vicinity of the Guelphs
Grumbach	1328-1682	original Grumbachers died out in 1243; later represent a line of the Wolffskeel family and were actually called Wolfskeel von Grumbach , but have only called themselves Grumbach since the 14th century
Grumbkow	since 1426	old, Pomeranian noble family
from the green	since 1246	Franconian noble family
Grünberg	since 1218	Brandenburg, Brandenburg, Neumark or Silesian noble families	-
Grünburger	12th and 13th centuries	Noble family in the land above the Enns	-
Grundemann von Falkenberg	since 1613	family originally from Lower Saxony and Brandenburg; 1613 hereditary Austrian nobility; 1628 Upper Austrian knighthood; 1716 Count estate
Landlord of Altenthann and Weiherhaus	since 1265	one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
Gründlach	1140-1314 / 15	Reichsministeriale
Grünenberg	1192-1454	extinct barons in Oberaargau and Baden
Grünewaldt	since 1457	German-Baltic noble family
Grüningen-Landau	?	Swabian counts
Greens	since 12th century	come from a line of the old Walloon family Hemricourt; then lived in the county of Namur; 1745 imperial count; At the end of the 18th century to Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium
Grünthal	since 1179	Austrian noble family from Bavaria
Gruttschreiber	1241-?	Silesian gender; 1696 predicate noble lord von Zopekendorf, 1699 hereditary baron status
Gryn von Treis	from 1254	Rhineland noble family	-
Gudenus	since 1668	Austrian noble family from Hessen
Gugel von Brand and Diepoltsdorf	since 1450	Patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1812 Baron status
Guidons	Mid to late 9th century	originally a Frankish ruling family	-
Guillemot de Villebois	since 15th century	French-Baltic noble family
Guiot du Ponteil	since the beginning of the 14th century	old noble family from the Limousin, which acquired the title of marquis in France and the title of count in Bavaria
Gulat from Wellenburg	?	Baden-Austrian noble family; 1800 hereditary Austrian nobility; 1816/1817 Austrian knighthood
Güldenstubbe	?	Baltic-Swedish noble family
Validlingen	since around 1100	Swabian nobility; Württemberg barons
Gumppenberg	since 1200	Uradel in Old Bavaria; 1571 imperial barons
Gundelfingen	1105-1546	Swabian family with important political positions and extensive possessions
Gundelsheim	until 1680	extinct, Frankish noble family
Günderrode	since 1467	Patrician family in Frankfurt am Main, originally from Thuringia; 1859 barons
Gundlach	since 1748	Glassmaker family originating from Hesse, 1748 imperial nobility, 1833/1839 Mecklenburg indigenous people, spread to Holstein, Lauenburg and Prussia
Gundling	since around 1500	Prussian noble family
Güntersberg	1283-1799	Neumark and Pomeranian noble families - in Sweden and Livonia partly also Güntersberch
Greetings from Güssenberg	1171/1216 until the 16th century	The medieval lords of Güssenberg called themselves in the 15./16. Century Güß von Güssenberg
Güttingen	12th to 14th century	Thurgau noble family with the castles Kachel and Moosburg near Güttingen
Gützkow	1233 (1270) to 1359 (1278)	Agnates of the bailiffs von Salzwedel and the Counts von Dannenberg , fiefs of the Greifenhaus and the Principality of Rügen , owner of the Grafschaft Gützkow for four generations
Gützkow	since the 13th century	lower nobility from Western Pomerania
coo	?	Bavarian nobility	-
Gustedt	since 1154	Lower Saxon noble family
Guth von Sulz	?	Swabian noble family
Gutowski	since the 13th century	ancient Polish noble family, settled in East Prussia since 1505
Guttenberg	since 1158	old, Frankish noble family
Gutzmerow	1341-1906	Pomeranian nobility
Gymnich	since 1135	one of the oldest noble families in Rhineland
Gysenberg	since 1217	Westphalian noble family

Individual evidence

↑ first documentary evidence, a named Friedrich Groschlag in 942 by Johann Gottfried Biedermann , who is to be viewed critically, cannot be documented.

[1] rst documentary evidence, a named Friedrich Groschlag in 942 by Johann Gottfried Biedermann , who is to be viewed critically, cannot be documented.