List of German noble families / R
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Surname | Period | Remarks | coat of arms |
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Raabs | before 1084 to 1191 | Franconian nobility with headquarters in Lower Austria ( Raabs an der Thaya ) | |
Ravens | since 1320 | old Mecklenburg noble family, 1734 Danish count, 1787 name and coat of arms association with the v. Lewetzow, 1881 renewed Danish recognition of the count status | |
Rabenau | since 1235 | Meissen nobility. There are still two families with the same name and the same or similar coat of arms, which go back to illegitimate ancestry and were ennobled in 1779 and 1912 respectively. | |
Raven von Pappenheim | since 1106 | Westphalian-English noble family, tribal with the Lords of Canstein ; 1811 Westphalian count class | |
Rabenstein | 1188-1742 | extinct Franconian noble family | |
Rabensteiner from Wirsberg | ? | Franconian noble family | |
Rabensteiner zu Döhlau | ? until 1643 | extinct Franconian noble family | |
Rabenswalde | 1160-1312 | extinct family that came from the family of the Counts of Kevernburg | |
Raboisen | before 1200 to 14th century | extinct old Holstein noble family, related to the knights of Barmstede | |
Rackel | since 1331 | Upper Lusatian noble family | |
Racknitz | since 1224 | Primeval noble family from Styria; 1553 imperial baron status | |
Radeck | since 1247 | important ministers of the archbishops in the bishopric of Salzburg | |
Rademacher | since 1264 | noble barons of the imperial nobility, coming from Holland u. a. settled in Hessen, 1549 & 1766 recognition / renewal diplomas | |
Radolin | since 1397 | Polish primeval nobility of the Koszucki tribe, 1836 Prussian count, 1888 Prussian prince (primogenitur) | |
Radowitz | since 1569 | Hungarian-German noble family | - |
Radziwiłł | since 1398 | originally Lithuanian, later also Polish and Prussian noble families; 1515 imperial count; 1547 confirmation of imperial prince status | |
Raesfeld / Raesfeldt | Raesfeldt 1253, Raesfeld 1547 | two different Westphalian noble families (the Raesfeldt are extinct); 1757 Imperial Barons for Raesfeld, 1841 Bavarian Barons for Raesfeldt. | |
Rahden | since 1219 | Noble-free sex from the Archbishopric of Bremen, 1620 enrolled in the Courland knighthood, 1862 Russian baron | |
Rahna | ? | Saxon and Thuringian noble families | |
Rainer to Rain | since 13th century | Lower Bavarian noble family | - |
Reason | since 1787 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Raitenau | 14.-17. century | old southern German noble family from the Lake Constance area | |
Raitenbach | since 1252 | Franconian and Vogtland noble families | |
Raitenbuch | since approx. 1126 | Ministerial sex of the Hochstift Regensburg | |
Raitz from Frentz | since 948 | family belonging to the oldest Cologne families of lay judges and knights; 1635 Imperial barons for the Kendenich line ; 1650 the same for the Schlenderhan line | |
Ramdohr | since 1377 | old Central German and Brunswick-Hanover noble family; 1716 knightly imperial nobility confirmation | |
Ramel | since 1256 | Pomeranian nobility, extinct in Germany, 1584 Danish nobility naturalization, 1664 Swedish nobility naturalization, 1770 Swedish baron | |
Ramelstein | since 12th century | Bavarian noble family | |
Ramin | since 1280 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Ramming | ? | Noble family from the Kraichgau | |
Junk bag | 1265-1854 | extinct Thurgau prehistoric nobility; Barons | |
Ramstadt | since 1190 | appear from 1354 as Lords of Wallbrunn ; Imperial Knighthood, Hessian and Rhineland nobility; Headquarters initially in Nieder-Ramstadt, later Ernsthofen Castle in the Modautal and Partenheim near Mainz; Bohemian barons 1724, extension to the entire family in 1726 | |
Ramstein | 12-14 century | medieval noble family | - |
Ramung von Kammerstein | 1212-1313 | Middle Franconian noble family | - |
Randeck | 13th century - 1537 | Palatine noble family | |
Randersacker | ? until 1541 | initially the lower nobility ministerial family in the service of the Würzburg bishops, later represented in several knightly cantons | |
Randow | since 1236 | Uradel of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. ––– A family of Randow ennobled in 1804, to whom the same coat of arms was granted, has again become extinct in the male line. | |
Rantzau (Ranzow) | since 1226 | Original noble family based in Schleswig-Holstein, 1650 imperial count for one line | |
Rappach | since around 1360 | Noble family from Styria, which is also part of the rural nobility in Lower Austria or one of the twelve Apostle families of Austria | |
Black | 1543-1752 | Prussian-Courland family | |
Rapperswil | until 1283 | Eastern Swiss aristocratic family, which can be assigned to the imperial direct high nobility | |
Rappoltstein | 1038-1673 | Noble family from Alsace | |
Raron | 12th to 15th century | Swiss noble family in Valais | |
Ras | 12./13. Century | Noble family in the area around the Rosental in southern Carinthia | - |
Quick look | 1224 to after 1857 | extinct, Saxon, Rhuringian and Hessian noble families | |
Rastenberg | since 1252 | Thuringian noble family | - |
Rau von Holzhausen | since 1146 | Hessian noble family | |
Robber | since 1370 | old Croatian noble family, which also settled in Lower Austria in the 14th century | |
smoke | since 1777 | Prussian noble family that goes back to Major General Bonaventura von Rauch | |
Smoke head | since 1308 | Meissnian nobility in the Saalekreis | |
Raugrafen | 1148-1457 | extinct noble family who had their main possession in the former Nahegau | |
Spacer | since 1590 | noble family from the Upper Palatinate | |
Get out of Rausenbach | since 1251 | Swabian aristocratic family that originated in the Kirchheim unter Teck area | |
Rauschner | ? | Franconian noble family | - |
Raussendorf | since 1240 | Silesian noble family | |
Rautenberg | before 1249 | Old nobility in the Diocese of Hildesheim, vassals of the Counts of Stolberg | |
Rautter | 1454-1792 | extinct, Prussian noble family | |
Raven | since 1235 | Uckermark nobility | |
Ravensberg | 1144-1609 | dead medieval noble family | |
Ravensburg | from 1178 | Lower Franconian noble family | - |
Vine | since 1239 | Strasbourg patrician and aristocratic family | |
Rechberg and Rothenlöwen | since 1179 | Swabian nobility; 1577 imperial baron status; 1607 Count estate | |
Rechenberg (Franconia) | ? | extinct Franconian noble family with ancestral seat at Rechenberg Castle near Stimpfach | |
Rechenberg (Silesia) | since 1270 | Meissen nobility; 1534 Imperial Barons; 1703 Count estate | |
Rechteren-Limpurg | 1236 | Geldern nobility; 1705 Imperial Count for the younger branch of the older line | |
Horizontal bar | since 1627 | patrician family from Goslar, imperial nobility on August 12, 1627, one line raised to the Baden baron status on November 11, 1882, not related to von der Recke or side lines | |
von der Recke incl. Recke von der Horst | since 1265 | Westphalian nobility; Imperial barons for members of the lines or branch lines Reck 1623, Kurl 1653, Horst 1677, Uentrop 1677, Witten 1708, Wenge-Offenberg 1709 and Steinfurt 1717; The branch Stockhausen acquired the Prussian count status in 1817. | |
Reckrodt | since 1253 | Hessian-Thuringian noble family | |
Reckow | since 1517 | Pomeranian noble family | |
Talk | since 1191 | Lower Saxon nobility; 1786 Prussian counts; 1894 prevalence and 1894 confirmation of the baron title for another line. | |
To speak (Rödern) | since 1155 | Brandenburg nobility; House Perg: May 2, 1646, hereditary-Austrian barons, May 20, 1646, Bohemian counts; House Schwante: 1757 Prussian counts. | |
Redwitz (Redwitz an der Rodach) | since 1116 | Franconian nobility; 1816 Baron status | |
Redwitz (Marktredwitz) | ? | extinct Franconian knighthood | |
Regensberg | 1044-1331 | important extinct Swiss noble family in the former Zurichgau | |
Regenstein | 1162-1599 | extinct Lower Saxon counts, also called Reinstein | |
Reginbodones | 11th century until? | Middle Rhine-Franconian noble family | - |
Deer | since 1456 | Baltic aristocratic family, 1620 enrollment in the Courland knighthood, 1668 Swedish aristocratic naturalization, 1680 Swedish baron, 1746 enrollment in the Estonian knighthood, 1747 (and 1798) enrollment in the Livonian knighthood, 1786 Imperial Count (1840 Finnish recognition), 1818 Finnish counts | |
Rehekampff | since 1542 | Baltic lines of the Riesenkampff (Risenkamp) patrician family from the Hildesheim monastery | |
Rehlingen (I) / Rehlingen (II) | since 1320 | Bavarian-Salzburg noble family; 1665 Imperial barons for the Horgau line; 1909 Bavarian barons for the Holdberg line. | |
Rehren | since 1675 | Baltic-Swedish noble family | |
Reibnitz | since 1288 | Silesian nobility, 1637 imperial prince (ad person), 1724 Bohemian baron, 1757 and 1857 Prussian recognition of the baron | |
Empire of Reichenstein | since 1166/79 | Swiss knight family; Owned in the Basel area, Sundgau and southern Black Forest | |
Count of Reichenbach | 1089-1279 | extinct Hessian counts | - |
Reichenbach | since 1258 | Silesian nobility; 1665 Bohemian barons, 1678 Bohemian gentry, 1730 Bohemian counts | |
Reichlin from Meldegg | ? | South German, baronial noble family | |
Reifenberg | until 1686 | extinct German noble family | |
Reifferscheid | since the end of the 12th century | Aristocratic family from the Eifel, named Salm-Reifferscheidt from the 15th century | |
Reinach | since 1210 | Aargau ministerial family. 1635 imperial barons, 1718 French counts | |
Reineck | ? | Thuringian noble family | - |
Reinken | since about 1300 | Baltic, Prussian and Russian noble families | |
Reinsberg | since 1291 | noble family of Silesia and Lower Lusatia | |
Reinstein | 13-16 century | extinct Franconian noble family | |
Reipitzsch | 1269-1704 | Merseburg ministerial family | - |
Reischach | since 1191 | Swabian nobility; 1724 herbländisch Austrian baron class; 1810 Württemberg counts. | |
Reitzenstein | since 1318 | Vogtland nobility; 1759 recognition of the baron status. There is a homonymous nobility of the same name. | |
Remchingen | 1160-1779 | extinct, south German noble family from Kraichgau | |
Renauld (nobles of Kellenbach) | until the beginning of the 20th century | Originally from Lorraine, later in Bavaria resident post-nobility family, which became extinct in the male line at the beginning of the 20th century | |
Rennberg | approx. 1217-1585 | extinct noble family from the Middle Rhine and imperial knights | |
Rennkampff | since 1563 | Baltic noble family; 1728 Imperial knighthood | |
Renteln | since 1297 | Hanover and Lübeck council families | |
Renz | ? | Swabian noble family | - |
Repke (Rohbeck) | since 1491 | Kashubian noble family from Lauenburg, later also flourishing in Poland and Prussia, 1786 Prussian nobility confirmation | |
Restorff (Retzdorff) | since 1226 | Mecklenburg nobility | |
Reuland | 1128-1313 | medieval noble family in what is now Wallonia | - |
Reuschenberg | since 1278 | Rhineland noble family | |
Reuss | since 1122 | Princely house in Thuringia; it was later divided into numerous houses ( Reuss older line , Reuss middle line , Reuss younger line , Reuss-Gera , Reuss-Schleiz , Reuss-Lobenstein , Reuss-Ebersdorf ) - there are also six noble families with the name Reuss, all of them dem Belong to letter nobility and have different coats of arms and origins. | |
Reuters | since 1691 | German-Baltic family originating in Lübeck; 1691 Swedish nobility, 1890 Russian counts (†) | |
Reventlow | since 1223 | Holstein-Mecklenburg primitive nobility; 1673 or 1767 Danish counts | |
Revertera-Salandra | since 1771 | Austrian noble family that originally came from Catalonia and immigrated to Austria from the Neapolitan Salandra in 1771 | - |
Rex | 1186/1190 | Upper Saxon nobility; 1741 or 1764 imperial count status; | |
Rhade | since 1316 | repugnant-Pomeranian gender; Expansion to Denmark, Mecklenburg and Brandenburg, 1836 baron title ad pers. For Hermann von Rhaden | |
Rhäzüns | 1137-1458 | Swiss noble family in the Graubünden Alpine region | |
To the Rhine (lat .: de Reno) | since 1164 | Upper Rhine ministerial sex | |
Rheinbaben | since 1272 | Silesian nobility; 1736 imperial baron status | |
Rheingrafen (Wild and Rheingrafen) | 12th century to? | Noble family of the high Middle Ages; In 1623 a line was raised to the rank of imperial prince | |
Rhemen to Barensfeld | since 1281 | Westphalian noble family | |
Ribbeck | since 1237 | Brandenburg nobility; | |
Ribbentrop | since 1547 | Lippian nobility; 1823 Prussian nobility. | |
Judge | since 1569 | German-Baltic noble family | |
Richthofen (Praetorius von Richthofen) | since 1515 | old mail nobility; 1661 knighthood with von Richthofen; 1735 Bohemian barons; 1846 Prussian counts | |
Ricdag | from the 8th century | Noble family from the tribal duchy of Saxony | - |
Rubbed | 1237 to? | Mecklenburg primeval nobility, 1840 Prussian barons | |
Riedemann | since 1917 | Aristocratic Prussian and Bavarian family from the Emsland | - |
Riederer by couple | since 1368 | old Bavarian nobility; 1692 electoral Bavarian baron class | |
Riedern | 1206-1588 | extinct noble family, named after the Lower Franconian Riedern | |
Riedesel | since 1226 | hessian nobility; 1680 imperial baron status. | |
Riedheim | since 1294 | Swabian nobility; 1590 imperial baron status | |
Strap | ? | Lower Saxon noble family | |
Rieneck | Late 11th century to 1559 | extinct medieval Frankish counts | |
Giant mountain | 1167-1720 | extinct catholic noble family in Bohemia | - |
Giant castle | 1293 to the 16th century | old Bohemian noble family that died out in the 16th century | - |
Riesenkampff called Rehekampff | since 1542 | Baltic lines of the Riesenkampff (Risenkamp) patrician family from the Hildesheim monastery | |
Advised | 12th century to? | Noble family in the southern Palatinate | - |
Rietberg | ? | Westphalian counts | |
Rieter von Kornburg | 1361-1502 | extinct patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg | |
Riexingen | until 1560 | extinct, Swabian noble family | |
Beef mouth | since 1191 | Franconian-Styrian noble family | |
Ringg from Baldenstein | ? | Noble family from Graubünden from Sils in Domleschg in the Viamala region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland | |
Ringgenberg | since 13th century | Alemannic noble family | |
Rintelen | since 1303 | Herford councilors | |
Ripperda ( Cosijn von Ripperda ) | since 1057 | East Frisian nobility; 1474 and 1676 imperial barons | |
Ritschl from Hartenbach | since 1581 | Bohemian mail nobility | |
Rittberg | since 1405 | Westphalian noble family; 1717 Prussian nobility recognition in the form of a renewal of the nobility, 1751 Prussian counts | |
Ritz | ? | Tyrolean-Salzburg noble family with Jewish roots | |
Robertiner / Rupertiner | 7-11 century | medieval Frankish noble family | - |
Rochow | since 1238 | Old Markian nobility; 1640 Imperial barons for the Königstein family | |
Rockenthien | since 1792 | Saxon, Thuringian and Prussian noble families | - |
Rockhausen | since 1273 | Thuringian nobility | |
Rodde | since 1528 | Lübeck merchant family from Münster ; 1806 Imperial nobility and barons | |
Rode | approx. 13th century to 1599 | Nassau-Hessian nobility | |
Rodemach | since 932 | Lorraine noble family | |
Clearing | 1120 / 24-1553 | Counts of Lower Saxony | - |
Rodenstein | 1080-1671 | Original Hessian nobility from Crumbach or from Rodenstein Castle | |
Roeder | since 1561 | Silesian noble family | |
Roeder | since 1333 | Vogtland noble family | |
Roeder von Diersburg | since 1197 | Uradel from the Ortenau; 1773 French recognition of the baronate, 1911 Grand Ducal Baden confirmation of the baron title for the entire family | |
Röhrenfurth | since 1182 | Althessian noble family | - |
Roëll (Röhl) | since 1647 | Westphalian family, in Dortmund in 1573, who transferred to the landed gentry in 1647 with possession of the Dölberg manor; 1798 Prussian recognition of the old nobility (for then presumed tribal members), from the 18th century also wealthy in Silesia, as well as in the Netherlands, where nobility recognitions were made in 1817, 1818, 1836, 1886 and 1892; Dutch baronate (primogenitur) 1819 and 1874. | |
Romans | since 1401 | family from the margraviate of Meissen, which passed into the nobility in the 16th century; 1470 imperial coat of arms letter. There is a Livonian family of the same name with a similar coat of arms |
Meissen Hesse |
Ronne | ? | Originating from the Duchy of Bremen, from the first half of the 15th century in Livonia, Courland and later also in Samogitia resident noble family | |
Rossing | since 1132 | Uradel from southern Lower Saxony. | |
Rogalla von Bieberstein | since 1599 | old East Prussian noble family named Rogalla; 1750 adoption of the current name | |
Roggenbach | since 1132 | Alemannic nobility | |
Roggendorf | 15-19 century | knight family from Styria; later imperial count | |
Roggwil | 13th to 17th century | Swiss knight family; named after the village of Roggwil in Thurgau | |
pipe | since 1033 | Originally from Bavaria, later from the Brandenburg aristocratic family | |
Pipe and stone | since 1277 | Silesian nobility | |
Rohrbach | until 1350 | Bavarian nobility | - |
Roll | since 1432 | noble Swiss patrician family in Solothurn | |
Rollingen | ? until 1740 | extinct Luxembourg dynasty | |
Rolsberg | 1419 | Noble family from the Rhineland, Hungarian baronate 1734, Austrian barons 1781 | |
Romberg | since 1249 | Westphalian nobility; 1874 Prussian baron class | |
Ronow | since 1211 | old Bohemian noble family; 1670 Imperial Count as von Ronow and Biberstein | - |
Ronsberg | since 982 | extinct Allgäu nobility; 1147 Count; 1182 Margrave | |
Ropp | since 1221 | Lower Saxon-Baltic nobility; the authorization to use the title of baron took place on the basis of the enrollment with the Courland Knighthood according to the Knight Bank's decision of 1620 | |
Rorer | since 1272 | old Franconian noble family | |
Rosdorf | 11th to early 16th century | extinct noble family of Lower Saxony | |
Roses | since 1282 | old Baltic noble family, 1693 imperial baron, 1731 Swedish baron, 1751 Swedish count. 3 other families of the same name: Rosen, Vorpommern (1617); Rosen, Liege (1680); Rosen adH Kaiserlitz, Stralsund (1662) | |
Rosenau | from the 2nd half of the 14th century | Franconian and Thuringian noble families | |
Rosenbach | ? until 1806 | extinct Central German noble family. There is still a gentry of the same name who was ennobled in 1643. | |
Rosenberg | before and after the 16th century | extinct Franconian-Swabian noble family in the knightly canton of Odenwald | |
Rosenberg (Witigonen) | 1225-1611 | The extinct family of the Rosenbergs (Czech z Rožmberka) came from the family of the Witigones. There are eight other genders of the name Rosenberg. | |
Rosenberg-Gruszczynski | circa 1430 | Polish, later Prussian noble family | |
Rosenbusch in Notzing | since 1537 | Munich patrician family, which in the course of being linked to other families of the lower nobility in 1537 was ennobled | |
Rosenegg | until 1480 | Swabian noble family | |
Rosenkampff | since approx. 18th century | German-Baltic noble family; related to the noble family Rehekampff (Riesenkampff called Rehekampff) or Riesenkampf | |
Rosenschantz | 1652-1818 | 1652 Swedish nobility, expansion in Mecklenburg and Silesia | |
Rose stem | since around 1500 | originally Alsatian, later Prussian noble family | - |
Rossau | 1139-1619 | extinct, originally Franconian noble family | |
Rosswag | 1148 to the middle of the 14th century. | Noble, Swabian noble family, which had its ancestral seat in the Roßwag community of the same name | |
Rotberg | since 1277 | Swiss nobility; 1773 French recognition of the baronate | |
Rotenhan | since 1229 | Franconian nobility; 1771 Imperial Barons; 1774 imperial count status | |
Red mouth | 1249-1711 | extinct Rügisches noble family | |
Roth von Schreckenstein | since 1237 | patrician family from Ulm; has held the title of baron since 1684 | |
Rothenburg | 12th Century | Widely branched, southern German aristocratic family, which, after Gebwin, descended from the Robertinians and named itself with the Hohenstaufen kitchen master Heinrich towards the end of the 12th century after Rothenburg ob der Tauber Castle | |
Rothenstein | 1280 to 16th century | extinct Swabian noble family | |
Rothkirch | since 1302 | Silesian nobility; 1830 Finnish barons. The Rothkirch and Panthen line received the Austrian count status in 1826 and the Prussian baron status in 1839; the Rothkirch and Trach line received the Prussian baron status in 1757 and the Prussian count status in 1861 | |
Rothschild | since 1500 | Banking family of Jewish origin; 1816 Austrian nobility; 1822 Austrian baron class | |
Rottal | ? until 1762 | extinct old Bohemian noble family | |
Rubella | 1103-1316 | extinct noble family based in the Basel area | |
Rottenburg | ? until 1411 | extinct noble family with headquarters in the lower Inn Valley | - |
Rotterdam | since 1560 | German-Bohemian gender; 1560 imperial nobility diploma, 1609 Polish indigenous people; 1783 kuk counts; 1862 Russian indigenous community; Spread to Volhynia, Galicia and Belgium, flourishes in Poland | |
Return | 1135 to around 1666 | medieval noble family in Hessen | |
Rüdenberg | ? until 1515 | medieval noble family in Westphalia | |
Rudigheim | 1222 to 1655 | medieval noble family in Hessen | - |
Rüdt von Collenberg | since 1134 | Immediate Frankish noble family. Baden line: 1816 enrolled in Bavaria with the baron class, 1877 Baden counts. Bavarian line: 1723 electoral Bavarian barons | |
Rühle von Lilienstern | since 1743 | German family raised to the nobility by Emperor Karl VII in 1743 | - |
Rümlang | 1143-1528 | Aristocratic family from Rümlang in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland and in southern Baden | |
Rüxleben | since 1235 | Thuringian noble family | |
Rukavina from Morgenstern | since 1845 | Croatian-Austrian noble family | |
Hype | since 1281 | aristocratic families from Nuremberg, Upper Palatinate and Austria | |
Rumohr | since 1220 | Holstein nobility, same tribe and coat of arms with those of Ahlefeld (t) | |
Rumpenheim | 1210-1531 | extinct German noble family based in Rumpenheim | - |
Rundstedt | since 1109 | Old Markian nobility | |
Runkel | since 1159 | Hessian nobility | |
Sootworm | 1349-1732 | Franconian noble family; After the family died out, a name and coat of arms were combined with the von Gleichen zu von Gleichen-Rußwurm with the approval of the emperor | |
Rusteberg | 1143-1437 | Eichsfelder and the Thuringian noble family | |
Rymsza | since 1785 | German-Baltic-Polish-Lithuanian noble family | |
Rzewuski | since 1541 | Polish, later Prussian noble family; 1783 hereditary-Austrian counts |