List of German noble families / P
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| Pair | since the 16th century | Austrian noble family |
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| Pace von Friedensberg | ? | old, originally Spanish noble family that worked in Trieste and Veneto and rose to the rank of Austrian count |
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| Pachaly | 1730-1841 | Bohemian-Silesian noble family |
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| Pachelbel from Gehag | since 1395 | Bohemian noble family |
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| Pacher from Theinburg | until 18th century | Austrian noble family in South Tyrol and Moldautein |
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| Paczensky | since 1316 | Upper Silesian nobility; 1692 imperial count status |
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| Padberg | since 1030 | Westphalian nobility |
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| Paepcke | since 1839 | Mecklenburg mail nobility |
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| Pahlen | since 1290 | Russian, Lithuanian and Swedish nobility families of German-Baltic origin; 1679 Swedish barons; 1799 Russian counts; 1877 Russian recognition of the use of the title of baron |
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| Pálffy | ? | Hungarian nobility; 1599 imperial count; 1581 Hungarian barony; 1634 Hungarian counts; 1807 Austrian princes |
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| Pallandt | since 1316 | Rhenish noble family |
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| Palm | since 1687 | Swabian noble family |
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| Panicher | since 1165 | old noble family from Salzburg |
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| Pannwitz | since 1276 | Primeval noble family from Upper and Lower Lusatia |
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| Papafava | ? | Italian noble family; 1652 Venetian nobility; 1745 earl title; 1823 diploma of the Austrian counts |
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| Papen , including Papen-Wilbring | since 1298 | Westphalian noble family; has held the title of nobility only since the middle of the 17th century |
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| Pappenheim | since 1111 | Franconian-Swabian nobility; 1628 Imperial Counts |
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| Pardubice | approx. 1300 to? | extinct, Bohemian nobility |
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| Parkentin | 1261-1769 | Lauenburg nobility, wealthy in Mecklenburg 1301–1746, Danish counts in 1750 |
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| Parsberg | 1224-1730 | extinct Bavarian noble family; Danish (Pasbjerg) and Belgian (de Partz de Courtray) branches continuing; The Scheibler coat of arms opposite is unfortunately wrong! |
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| Parsenow | approx. 1320-1491 | originally from Mecklenburg, later settled in Pomerania, extinct noble family |
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| Paschwitz | 1715 | Bavarian nobility of mail; Ennobled 1715 |
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| Paselich | 1282–1627 (Rügen) and 1637 (Denmark) | old Rügen, later also Danish noble family |
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| Passow | 1285 to? | old Mecklenburg noble family |
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| Patkul | since 1385 | German-Baltic (Livonian) aristocratic family; 1716 Swedish barons; |
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| Paulsdorf | since 1019 | old, Bavarian noble family |
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| Paumgarten | ? | old Bavarian noble family |
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| Paumgartner | 1255 to 1726 | one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg |
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| Paur | since 1744 | Civil servants from Bavaria, raised to the imperial nobility on September 22, 1744, extinct in the male line in 1918 |
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| Pausinger | ? | Austrian and Bavarian noble families |
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| Payr zum Thurn | ? | old Tyrolean noble family from the Upper Inn Valley; 1544 letter of arms; 1631 Herbländisch Austrian nobility and knightly imperial nobility |
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| Peccatel | 1218-1775 | Mecklenburg sex |
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| Pechlin | since 1740 | Holstein noble family |
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| Bad luck | since 1687 | Mail nobility; 1687 Imperial knighthood; 1698 Hungarian baronate; 1700 confirmation of the imperial baron status |
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| Peilstein | 1030-1218 | old counts (branch line of the Sieghardinger) |
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| Peintner / Peithner from Lichtenfels | since 1609 | old Tyrolean family who were raised to the nobility in 1609 and various branches to the knighthood in 1698, 1707 and 1742 |
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| Pejacsevich | since 1360 | old, Bulgarian (Croatian?) noble family; 1668 Hungarian baronage confirmation; 1772 Hungarian counts |
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| Pel (c) hrzim and Trzenkowitz | since 1223 | Silesian nobility |
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| Pelckhofen | ? | Bavarian noble family |
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| Peltz from Boppard | since 1305 | Middle Rhine noble family |
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| Peltzer | since around 1400 | Aachen lay judges; knightly imperial nobility as von Pelser-Berensberg 1766; Admission to the Netherlands. Nobility 1822; prussia. Recognition of nobility in 1829; reuss. Ä.L. or Prussia. Nobility as von Peltzer 1893 and 1897 |
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| Pentz | since 1321 | mecklenburg nobility; Neudorf line: 1636 imperial count status; Redefin line: 1776 royal Saxon baron class; |
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| Penzig / Pentzig | 1241 to the end of the 18th century | Upper Lusatian nobility - 1801 imperial baron status for the husband of the last heir Christiane Sophie von Penzig, Johann Friedrich von Prenzel , with the predicate of Penzig |
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| Perbandt | since 1200 | Old Prussian nobility |
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| Perfall | since 1355 | old, Bavarian noble family |
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| Perg and Machland | 1025 to 12th century | extinct, originally noble family. |
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| Pergler from Perglas | since 1308 | Meissen or Bohemian noble family |
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| Pernstein | 1285-1631 | Bohemian and Moravian noble families |
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| Perponcher-Sedlnitzky | ? | originally Dutch Huguenot family |
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| Perschkau | 1444-1620 | Prussian, extinct noble family |
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| Pessna | 1190-1355 | Saxon noble family | - |
| Petersdorff | since 1298 or since 1304 | two aristocratic families who are not related to one another and whose home is in the Mark Brandenburg or in the Duchy of Pomerania |
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| Pettau | 1132-1438 | medieval Salzburg ministerial family |
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| Petz from Lichtenhof | since 1450 | Noble family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; Ennobled in 1813 |
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| Pfaffinger | since 14th century | Bavarian noble family |
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| Pfannberg | since 1237 | Styrian high free noble family of the Middle Ages |
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| Peacock from Rietburg | since around 1100 | Upper Rhine-Swabian service men |
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| Salomon pepper | since 1862 | Rhineland, Brandenburg and Prussian noble families | - |
| arrow | since 1108 | Silesian nobility, 1736 confirmation of imperial nobility and coat of arms, 1767 imperial baron with well-born († 1835), 1786 Prussian count, 1889 Prussian name and coat of arms association with that of Count von Burghauß as Count von Pfeil-Burghauß, 1981 entry in the Tyrolean nobility register; 1822 Prussian nobility for another family v. arrow |
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| Pfersfeld | ? | Franconian noble family |
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| Purlins | 1146 | Old Bavarian nobility, 1668 imperial baron status as noble baron and pennant von Pfettner, 1814 entry in the baron class of aristocratic registers in the Kingdom of Bavaria, 1826 name and coat of arms association with those of the expired barons of Füll as barons of Pfetten-Füll |
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| Pfinzing von Henfenfeld | 1233-1764 | one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg |
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| Count of Pfirt | 1042-1324 | Ruling family at Pfirt Castle . Southern Upper Alsace was subordinate to the Counts of Pfirt. |
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| Pfirt | 1135-1848 | Front Austrian ministerial noble family of the counts of the same name |
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| Pflachern | since 1532 | Old Bavarian-Austrian noble family | - |
| Pflugk | since 1267 | Primeval noble family originating in Bohemia; 1705 Imperial Count for the Meissen tribe of the family |
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| Pforr | since 1261 | Patrician family in Breisach am Rhein |
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| Pfuel | since 926 | Primeval noble family from the Barnim; Swedish line: Swedish nobility naturalization 1686; Westphalian line: 1813 royal Westphalian baronate; Württemberg line: Württemberg baron class 1828 |
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| Pfullendorf | 1067 to 12th century | extinct counts of Baden-Württemberg | - |
| Pfyffer from Altishofen | since 1559 | ennobled patrician family of the formerly free federal city and republic of Lucerne | - |
| Piatti | ? | old Italian noble family, which first entered the service of the Saxon rulers and then gained prestige in Austria |
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| Pienzenau | since 1046 | Upper Bavarian nobility; 1635 Bavarian baron class; |
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| Pilar from Pilchau | ? | German-Baltic noble family |
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| Pilati | since the 16th century | family originally from Tyrol; 1571 prince-bishop. Trient, 1602 imperial nobility; 1710 inherited-Austrian baron title with the title "von Thassul", subsequently acquisition of the Silesian rule Schlegel; 1795 Count dignity with extended title "von Thassul zu Daxberg". |
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| Pilgram | - | several, partly related noble families: a) Cologne patrician family, b) Nuremberg patrician family, c) Niederlausitz noble family, d) Bohemian noble family, e) Bavarian noble family, f) Austrian noble family |
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| Pilgram (Austria) | since 1787 | Austrian noble family; |
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| Pilgrimids | 923 to? | Headquartered in space Freising medieval noble family, which includes the governors of the Freisinger Hochstift presented | - |
| Pillersdorf | since 1616 | Moravian-Austrian noble family; 1616 letter of arms; 1719 hereditary-Austrian nobility; 1733 Bohemian incolation and transfer to the Herbland-Austrian knighthood; 1792 as a baron |
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| Pilsak from Wellenau | since 1825 | Austrian noble family; 1825 Austrian nobility |
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| Pincier | ? | family of scholars originally from Hesse and descendants of the Schleswig-Holstein noble family | - |
| Pirch | since 1335 | Pomeranian prehistoric nobility from Western Pomerania |
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| Pistoris | 1410 | old Saxon scholarly family, ennobled in single lines; 1555 Imperial nobility |
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| Plain | since 12th century | Salzburg noble family |
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| from the Planitz | since 1192 | Vogtland nobility; |
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| Plankenfels | 1217-1538 | extinct Franconian knighthood |
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| Planta | since 1139 | Swiss noble family |
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| Plassenberg | 1149 to? | extinct Franconian noble family |
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| Platen (Pomerania) | since 1252 | old, Pomeranian noble family from Rügen; Dornhof line: 1797 Swedish barons, 1815 Swedish counts; Drigge line: 1815 Swedish barons |
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| Platen (Mark) | since 1351 | old, aristocratic Brandenburg family |
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| Plater | since 1274 | Counts in Poland, Lithuania and Russia, came from Westphalia, died out in Germany in 1659, but persists in Poland and Russia in several lines. |
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| plato | since 1264 | Hanoverian family, which comes from the Lüneburg nobility of the Wendland |
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| Platow | 1) ?; 2) 15th century | 1) an old Hanoverian and 2) an old Brandenburg noble family |
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| Plauen | 12-16 century | medieval noble family |
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| Pleschner from Eichstett | since 1796 | Austrian noble family; 1857 Austrian nobility |
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| Plessen (Plesse) | since 1097 | noble, Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family, which existed until the 17th / 18th centuries. Century von Plesse called; Increases in rank of various lines: Imperial Count 1741; Kgl. Württembg. Approval of the baron title December 30, 1828; Danish feudal count 1829; 1888 hereditary Prussian count; hereditary Danish count status with feudal count 1895; Hereditary Prussian count 1897 |
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| Plettenberg | since 1187 | Westphalian nobility of the county of Mark; Lenhausen-Stockum tribe: 1661 imperial barons, 1724 imperial counts; Schwarzenberg tribe: 1698 imperial barons, 1913 Prussian counts. |
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| Plieningen | before 1264 to 1645 | Noble or noble family of the Middle Ages and early modern times |
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| Ploennies | since 1532 | Originally from Westphalia, Lübeck patrician and imperial noble family |
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| Ploetz (Neumark) | since 1308 | old, New Mark noble family |
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| Ploetz (Pomerania) | since 1271 | old, Pomeranian noble family |
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| Ploetz, noble from | 1790 | Bavarian post office since 1790 | - |
| Plotho | 1135 | highly free primitive nobility from the Archdiocese of Magdeburg; 1643 confirmation of imperial baron status |
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| Plottnitz-Stockhammer | since 1937 | Bavarian and Prussian noble family, the male line of which goes back to the House of Wittelsbach and from 1927 to 1937 carried the name "Prince of Prussia" |
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| Plüskow | since 1230 | Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility |
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| Podbielski | before 1539 | Polish, later Prussian noble family | - |
| Podewils | since 1347 | noble family from the Pomerania region from the Belgard district (Persante); Bavarian line: 1715 barons, 1911 counts; Pomeranian line: 1741 Prussian counts; Württemberg line: 1854 Württemberg barons |
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| Podebike | 1363-1647 | old noble family in the Kingdom of Bohemia | - |
| Podwein | 1311-1397 | Noble family from Carniola; Ministerials of the Counts of Ortenburg | - |
| Polnitz | since 1238 | Vogtland nobility; 1670 Imperial Barons; |
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| Pömer von Diepoltsdorf | 1286-1814 | extinct patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg |
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| Pogrell | since 1180 | noble, Silesian gentry family; 1744 imperial count status |
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| Pogwish | 1283-1845 | Schleswig-Holstein noble family |
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| Poigen | 12th and 13th centuries | Bavarian noble family | - |
| Pokorny | ? | Several families from the area of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which were nobilized in Austria in the 19th century, were distinguished by the hierarchical nobility titles of barons, knights and nobles in addition to the predicate names of Fürstenschild, Kornberg and Wienfried | - |
| Polenz | since 1180 | old, Meissen noble family |
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| Polheim | 1143-1909 | one of the oldest Austrian noble families |
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| Poll | since 1325 | Baltic nobility |
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| Pomeiske | 14th century (1331?) To 19th century (before 1840) | Pomeranian prehistoric nobility from Western Pomerania |
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| Pomeranian ash | since 1515 | mail nobility from Western Pomerania; 1813 Swedish nobility |
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| Pongau | 12th century | Salzburg noble family | - |
| Ponickau | since 1308 | Upper Lusatian nobility; 1745 imperial count; 1815 Bavarian recognition of the baron class |
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| Poniński | since 1387 | Polish noble family; 1773 Polish princes; Austrian prince confirmation 1818 u. 1837, Galician prince confirmation 1821 a. 1841, 1822 enrollment with the Galician estates, 1774 count diploma, 1782 Prussian recognition of the counts and Silesian incolate, 1842 Prussian counts, 1862 Austrian recognition of the counts, 1880 Italian recognition of the counts; 1841 enrollment in the count's class in the Kingdom of Bavaria, 1905 Austrian award of the title "Serene Highness", 1908 "comes romanus" |
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| De Ponte (from the bridge) | ? | Noble family from Trier; originally from Merzig / Saar | - |
| Poppenburg | 1068 / 69-1275 | Saxon counts with Swabian roots |
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| Popponen | early 9th to 11th century | Noble family from the Grabfeldgau | - |
| Porcia | ? | noble family originally from Friuli; 1662 imperial prince |
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| Portner of Augsburg | 14th to 15th century | Patrician family from Augsburg |
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| Portner | ? | Various Bavarian patrician and aristocratic families: Portner von Regensburg, Portner von Leidersdorf, Portner on Wolfsbach, Portner on Theuern, Portner on Heringnohe, Portner on Haselmühl, Portner on the Burghut Rieden |
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| Poschinger | since 1140 | Mail aristocratic family, 1643 aristocratic country class; Imperial knighthood with name increase Edler von Poschinger 1790; Bavarian barons for the Frauenau line on July 24, 1901 |
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| Poser and Groß-Naedlitz | since 1275 | Silesian nobility. |
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| Posers | since 1283 | Upper Saxon-Meissen aristocratic family |
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| Possanner von Ehrenthal | since 1667 | Austrian noble family from southern Styria | - |
| post Office | since 1220 | Westphalian-Lower Saxony nobility |
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| pot | 13th century to 1705 | extinct, Burgundian noble family | - |
| Pourtalès | 1500 | Huguenot family of noble origin; 1750 Prussian nobility; 1814 Prussian count confirmation |
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| Pranckh | since the 18th century | Austrian primeval nobility, which among other things a royal Bavarian. Minister of War and Generals |
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| Prangins | 1230 to 15th century (?) | extinct noble family from Vaud | - |
| Prashma | since 1253 | Catholic-Moravian nobility; has called itself Prashma since 1414; 1625 baron class; 1655 Bohemian counts |
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| Praun | since 1383 | Patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1474 imperial coat of arms letter; 1545 English nobility |
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| Praunheim | since 12th century | Hessian knight and ministerial family |
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| Prebendow (Polish: Przebendowski) | since 1558 | Lauenburg-Pomeranian noble family; 1711 imperial count, 1783 legitimation at the Galician country table as a knight of Przebendowo , 1789 Galician count with the salutation high and well-born |
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| Preen | since 1237 | Mecklenburg nobility; 1812 Nassau barons. - Another gender with the same name and a similar coat of arms from Baden belongs to the letter nobility. |
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| Premyslids | Late 9th century to 1306 | Bohemian ruling family |
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| Prenberg (Brennberg) | ? | Bavarian aristocratic family of the northern Gau |
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| Press agent | since 1275 | Mecklenburg primeval nobility; 1833 coat of arms and name association with the v. Rautter; 1890 Authorization for patrilineal hereditary use of the name and coat of arms of v. Podewils, tied to the possession of the former Podewils Fideikommiss Penken; 1913 Count status, also in the rights of the firstborn with the name Count v. Rautter-Willkamm |
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| Pretlack | until 1843 | originally East Prussian, later Hessian noble family |
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| Preu | since 1538 | Franconian noble family from Weißenburg in Bavaria |
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| Prussia | since 1206 | Electoral Saxon nobility |
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| Prussia | 1550-1833 | Pomeranian noble family | |
| Preysing | since 1100 | Bavarian nobility; 1607 Bavarian and Imperial Barons; 1664 imperial count; various ranks (barons, counts) for different lines. |
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| Priegnitz | until 1757 | Brandenburg-Mecklenburg primeval nobility |
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| Prittwitz and Gaffron | since 1283 | Silesian nobility; has been called Prittwitz and Gaffron since 1861/62 |
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| Pritzbuer | since 1262 | Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility |
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| Pritzelwitz | 1309 | Silesian nobility of Bohemian origin. |
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| Proeck | since 1321 | Prussian, originally Swiss aristocratic family, as well as two postage nobility lines from 1798 and 1805 |
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| Proff | since 1420 | family originating from the Duchy of Jülich; 1746 Imperial Knighthood; 1790 imperial baron status |
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| Prollius | since 1795 | from Hesse, Mecklenburg noble family |
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| Promnitz | since 1270 | Saxon nobility, later wealthy noble family in Silesia and Lower Lusatia; 1559 imperial baron status; 1652 Bohemian counts; 1753 Name extension Promnitz von Promnitzau |
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| Proysis | 1242 – mid 15th century | Eichsfelder, Thuringian and Hessian noble families |
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| Prückner | since 1623 | hofer patrician family | - |
| Prunn | 11th to 15th century | Noble, old Bavarian noble family that named themselves after their headquarters in Prunn, Laaber and Breitenegg |
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| Prussiniowitz | 1280 to 19th century | extinct, Moravian noble family |
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| Pucher from Meggenhausen | from 1443 | Austrian noble family that originated in the canton of Graubünden (Switzerland); 1603 Austrian, knightly nobility with improved coat of arms; 1635 knighthood; 1652 Austrian baron class |
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| Puchheim | ? | extinct Austrian noble family, which belonged to the primeval nobility as well as the so-called Apostle families |
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| Pückler | since 1306 | Silesian nobility; 1655 imperial baron status; 1690 imperial count; 1822 Prussian princes |
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| Pühel | ? | Upper Franconian noble family |
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| Putbus | since 1286 | rügen nobility; 1672 Danish baron class; 1723 imperial count; 1807 Swedish princes |
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| Pütrich | since 1347 | Munich patrician families, of which a branch was raised to the nobility in 1347 as Pütrich von Reichertshausen | - |
| Puttkamer | since 1257 | Noble family from Pomerania; 1620 imperial baron status; 1737 or 1773 Prussian barons |
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| Plaster from Rolsberg | since the early 15th century | Austrian noble family from the Rhineland |
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| Pych ( Pych Lipinski ; Pych Pradzynski ) | since 1526 | Kashubian noble family from Pomerania |
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| Pyrmont | 12th to early 16th century | West German noble family from Luxembourg; 1495 imperial baron status |
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