List of German noble families / M

M.

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
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]
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
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