List of German noble families / S

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Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
Saalfeld	1246	Thuringian nobility, headquarters in Klingen in the Schwarzburg region
Saalhausen	?	Saxon noble family of the Mark Meissen
Saar become	1131	Branch line of the Counts of Metz-Lunéville, as a result of the marriage of the heir's daughter in 1376 from 1397 of the Counts of Moers, as a result of the marriage in 1507 of the heir's daughter of 1527 † von Moers-Saar Werden, half in 1514 and the entire county of Saar Werden came to the Nassau-Saarbrücken house in 1514
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	since 1918	younger sidelines of the Ernestine Wettins. The name comes from the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, which was in the area of what is now Thuringia and Bavaria
Saxe-Coburg-Koháry	since 19th century	Second generation of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	-
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	1735-1826	Ernestine Duchy	-
Sachsenhausen	1194 to the middle of the 14th century	Ministerial family with headquarters in what is now Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
Sachsenheim	1090-1561	old Württemberg knight family from Sachsenheim
Sachsenkam	1010-1102	high medieval, noble, Bavarian noble family
Sack (Vogtland)	1232-1591	Ministerial sex in today's district of Wunsiedel
Sack (Epprechtstein)	1288	Family from the Bamberg area
Sack (Merseburg)	?	extinct Merseburg vassal family
Sack (Silesia)	since 1290	Silesian nobility; Upper Lusatian line: 1724 Böhnmischer Freiherrenstand; 1821 Prussian counts. Swedish line: 1719 Swedish barons.
Saffron to Pfannberg	?	nobility from Styria and Carinthia and wealthy in Bohemia; 1711 Imperial knighthood; 1739 hereditary-Austrian baron class
Sagogn	12th to 13th century	Noble noble family in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden	-
Sahrer from Sahr	since 1295	Bohemian nobility, counts in 1628
Saint-André	since 1015	Huguenot branch of an old French noble family, wealthy in southwest Germany	-
Saint Paul	since 1634	sex originating from France; 1721 Prussian nobility confirmation; 1889 Prussian authorization to use the name Le Tanneux from Saint Paul
Saintignon	?	Lorraine counts
Balancing	since 1161	Magdeburg nobility; 1840 Prussian count as von Saldern-Ahlimb-Ringenwalde
Salier	approx. 900-1125	East Franconian noble family of the 10th to 12th centuries, which produced four Roman-German kings and emperors from 1024 to 1125	-
Salis	since 1285	Swiss nobility from Graubünden; In 1582, 1588, 1632 and 1766 the branches of Grüsch, Marschlins, Maienfeld, Seewis and Soglio achieved the status of imperial barons, in 1694 and 1748 the dignity of imperial counts.
Salisch	since 1259	old Silesian noble family, Bohemian baron in 1728 and Prussian counts in 1741 and 1786
Salm and Salm-Neuburg	since 1157	Moselle counts, branch line of the Wigeriche ; Grumbach line: 1816 Prussian princes. Salm line: 1623 imperial princes; Salm-Neuburg line expired in 1784
Salm-Reifferscheidt	since 1460	Side branch of the Salm house and there the Niedersalm line; agnatically emerged from the Reifferscheidt family
Salmendingen	1245-1392	extinct, Swabian noble family	-
Solomon	until 1788	extinct, originally Lorraine, later Prussian noble family	-
Salrer	1095 to?	Extinct sex; belonged to the oldest Bavarian families	-
Saltzwedel	since 1766	Altmark aristocratic family
Salviati	in Prussia since 1740	Florentine noble family; 1830 Prussian nobility
Salza	since 1162	Thuringian nobility; spread to Saxony, Upper Lusatia, Silesia, the Baltic States and Sweden; 1732 Imperial and Bohemian old barons and lords for the Linda line; 1778, 1843 royal Swedish count for the Swedish line; 1891 Royal Saxon recognition of the baron status for the Lichtenau line.
Samborids	1155-1294	extinct ruling dynasty that provided the Pomeranian dukes	-
Samson from Himmelstjerna	since 1640	Baltic noble family from North Brabant. Since 1819 with the surname Himmelstjerna
Sands	since 1156	originally the lower nobility ministerial family, a tribe with the von Randersacker family; from the 13th century line of the knights Kruse / Kraus von Sande important position in the Roman Catholic Church
Sands	since 1672/73	East Prussian postal nobility; 1796 raised to the Prussian nobility; 1840 Prussian baron class
Sandersleben	since 1277	Altmark aristocratic family that has been counted among the nobility since the middle of the 15th century, because of adoption a line called itself Graf or Countess von Sandersleben-Coligny
Sandicell	since 1171	Upper Bavarian nobility; 1677 electoral Bavarian recognition of the baron class; 1790 imperial count status.
Sandrart	?	Aristocratic Prussian family from Walloon Hainaut	-
Sandreczky	1297-1886	Bohemian-Silesian family of the Korwin tribe; 1697 Bohemian barons; 1741 Prussian counts
Sangerhausen	up to 17th century	Thuringian counts
Sanitz	since 1337	originally from New Mark, later also serving Prussia and wealthy in Mecklenburg, now extinct noble family
Sanneck	1154 to early 15th century	noble-free sex, whose origin and roots have not yet been properly clarified; 1341 count estate; related to the Counts of Cilli.	-
Sarnthein	?	aristocratic correspondence, originally from Augsburg, South Tyrolean noble family; 1530 letter of arms; 1594 imperial nobility; 1650 Tyrolean barons; hereditary Austrian count
Saddle bow	1130-1537	one of the most powerful, influential and respected knight families in the Bavarian Forest
Saucken	since 1339	Old Prussian nobility
Saurau	since 1117	Uradel of Styria
Saurma	since 1530	Silesian noble family
Saurzapf	until 1861	Bavarian noble family
Sat	since 1453	Baltic gender; 1645/1650 Swedish, 1741 Oeselian, 1742 Livonian, 1818 Finnish and 1841 Courland indigenous; 1779, 1784 and 1908 Prussian baron or its recognition; 1853 and 1862 Russian baronate or its recognition
Sax	1137-1633	Noble family from what is now eastern Switzerland with two main lines: Counts of Sax-Misox and Barons of Hohensax
Sayn-Wittgenstein	since the 12th century	Noble Rhineland counts, descendants from the lines of the Counts of Wittgenstein and the Counts of Sayn from the Sponheim family. Three lines: Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (Laasphe) and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (Bendorf); 1792 Imperial Princes for the Berleburg line (Berleburg branch); 1801 for the Hohenstein line; 1834 Prussian prince for the Berleburg line (Ludwigsburg branch).	_{Family coat of arms Sayn} _{Wittgenstein family coat of arms} _{Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg} _{Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein}
Sazenhofen	since 1167	originally Lower Bavarian nobility; 1717 imperial baron, 1732 imperial count
Scarponnois	before 1054 to 1462	Noble family from the Scarponnois in what is now the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle	-
shepherd	since 1386	South Baden noble family - branch line of the Lords Giving (Freiburg)	_{Giving-Schüser (shepherd)} _Shepherds
Shafts	since 1162	Hessian nobility
Schack	since 1162	Lüneburg (Lower Saxony) primeval nobility with a Pomeranian trunk; Danish counts (primogeniture) or barons (unlimited); 1772 Danish expansion of the counts (unlimited); 1876 Prussian counts	_{Schack (Lower Saxony)} _{Schack (Pomerania)}
Schackmin	since 1711	originally bourgeois, Lorraine family who rose in the service of the Duchy of Lorraine and were ennobled in 1711; Zweig im Breisgau died out in 1801
What a shame	since the 12th century	Westphalian noble family
Schaesberg	since 1334	Limburg nobility - Jülich dynasty family; 1637 Imperial Barons; 1706 Imperial Counts
Schaetzel	?	a) wealthy in Pomerania and Brandenburg, later to be found in West Prussia; b) the wealthy sex in East Prussia	-
Schaezler	since 1821	from the Upper Palatinate family, which was based in Augsburg and was raised to the nobility in 1821
Schaffalitzky from Muckadell	since the 12th century	aristocratic family from Moravia.
Schaffgotsch	since 1174	Silesian noble family that originally came from Franconia. 1592 confirmation of the old imperial baron status; 1708 Imperial Count, 1744 Prussian Princely
Sonic Riaucour	since the end of the 12th century	Noble family from the Rhineland (Cologne patriciate). Originally Schall zu Bell , since 1770 Schall-Riaucour. 1745 imperial count status
Schallenberg	since 1260	Upper Austrian nobility
Schapelow	15th to 18th century	Brandenburg aristocratic family
Schardt	?	Thuringian noble family
Scharfenstein	from 14th century	Thuringian noble family
Scharnachthal	13th century to 1590	Alemannic noble family, ministerial family;
Scharpenberg (Elbmarschen)	13th century until?	extinct medieval knight family from the Elbe marshes	-
Scharpenberg (Lauenburg)	1228-1469	extinct medieval knight family from Lauenburg
Shadow	since 1760	Palatinate-Bavarian postal nobility; 1760 imperial nobility, 1783 electoral Palatinate Bavarian barons	-
Schauenberg	13th and 14th century	extinct Zurich noble family with ancestral seat Burg Schauenberg
Schauenburg (Ortenau)	since 1108	Burgmann family of the Counts of Eberstein, which belong to the ancient nobility of the Ortenau
Schauenburg (Switzerland)	up to 14th century	extinct Swiss noble family from the Liestal area	-
Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein	until 1640	Counts of the Schauenburgs near Rinteln on the Weser
Schauenstein	1258-1742	Swiss noble family in the Chur Monastery
Schaumberg	since 1216	Thuringian-Franconian nobility; 1827, 1860, 1915, elevation to the baron class.	_{Family coat of arms} _{Baron coat of arms}
Schaumburg-Lippe	since 1647	High nobility; named after the Schaumburg in the Weser Mountains and Haus Lippe
Schauroth	since 1287	Thuringian noble family
Schedingen	1233 to circa 1550	Westphalian noble family from Scheidingen near Soest
Scheel von Plessen	since 1702	Danish-Holstein line of the originally noble noble family von Plessen	-
Scheibler	since 1781	Family from the county of Ziegenhain with several lines and different coats of arms; 1781 raised to the nobility as noble von Scheibler; 1814 elevation to the hereditary baron class (line extinct); 1870 Second elevation to the hereditary baron class (Scheibler-Hülhoven and Scheibler-Muthagen line)	_{Family coat of arms} _{Baron coat of arms}
Scheidingen	? until the beginning of the 19th century	extinct Thuringian-Saxon ministerial family
Scheidt called Weschpfennig	since 1423	family resident in the Bergisches Land ; 1642 imperial baron status.
Schele	since 1235	Westphalian-Lower Saxon nobility; 1838 Hanoverian approval to use the title of baron;
Amorbach clamp	1286-1524	Odenwälder Niederadel;
Schellenberg	1137-1812	extinct noble family and knighthood in southern Germany; 1637 hereditary barons
Rogue of mountains	1194-1844	extinct aristocratic knightly family whose ancestral castle was in what is now the Frankfurt district of Bergen
Schenck to Schweinsberg	since 1199	Hessian nobility from the Upper Lahngau ; Barons since 1875
Schenckendorff / Schenkendorf	since 1313	Prussian noble family	-
Gift from Castell	1239-1902	extinct Swabian nobility; 1665 confirmation of imperial baron status; 1681 Imperial Count
Schenk von Geyern	1276 to 1935	extinct Franconian noble family, emerged from the Lords of Hofstetten
Schenk von Landsberg	1207-1721	extinct Brandenburg and Lusatian nobility	-
Gift of Limpurg	12th century to 1713	extinct Swabian-Franconian noble family
Gift from Nideggen	from 1225	Rhineland noble family
Gift of Osterwitz	from 1106	Carinthian ministerial family	-
Schenk von Schmittburg	1355-1822	Barons from the Hunsrück ; 1658 as a baron
Gift from Siemau	1195-1634	extinct Franconian noble family
Schenk von Stauffenberg	since 1262	Swabian nobility; 1698 Imperial Barons; 1791 Imperial Count
Gift from Vargula	1178	German noble family - a tribe with the inns of Nebra and Tautenburg
Scherenberg	1212-1495	Ministerial sex in the Würzburg monastery with goods in the Steigerwald
Scherffenberg	?	Austrian noble family of Carniola
Schernberg (Salzburg)	since 1193	Salzburg noble family, which probably came from Carinthia
Schernberg (Thuringia)	since 1203	Thuringian nobility	-
Schertel from Burtenbach	since 1456	South German noble family, named after their former rule in the Burtenbach area ; 1814 as a baron
Scheuchenstuel	since 15th century	Bavarian and Austrian noble families from the Rosenheim citizenship
Scheurl from Defersdorf	since 1340	Patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg; 1540 imperial nobility; 1884 hereditary baron status
Schierstedt	since 1263	Upper Saxon noble family
Shields	1586-1860	family originating from the city of Hanover; 1738 imperial knighthood with “Edler von Schilden”, 1755 imperial nobility; Extinct in the male line in 1860.
Shilling		Baltic aristocratic family, which can be traced back to the ancient schillings of Lahnstein ; 1620 enrolled in 1st class of the Courland Knighthood; 1772 imperial baron, 1781 imperial count.
Shilling	?	originally from Alsace, the noble family in Silesia and Poland
Schilling from Bornheim	since 1173	Rhenish, originally dynastic noble family
Schilling from Cannstatt	since 1268	Swabian nobility; 1911 Grand Ducal Baden confirmation of the baron status due to old membership of the Swabian Imperial Knighthood. A single family was officially recognized in the Kingdom of Bavaria as early as 1879 .
Schilling (from Lahnstein)	since 1173	Rhineland aristocratic family, which can be traced back to the original noble family of the Schilling von Lahnstein and was later elevated to the status of barons and counts
(Marschalken von) Schiltberg	since 1031	one of the oldest Bavarian noble families	-
Schilwazen	12th to 15th century	Bavarian nobility
Schimmelmann	since 1604	1762 Danish nobility; 1779 Danish feudal count; 1885 Prussian baron class
Schimonsky	since 1489	Silesian noble family
Schirach	since 1485	Upper Lusatian sex; 1776 inherited Austrian nobility	-
Schirndinger from Schirnding	since 1385	Upper Franconian nobility; 1717, 1737, 1863/64, 1871 and 1918 baronial status for members of different lines.
Schlabrendorf	since 1234	Brandenburg nobility; Drewitz line: 1698 imperial baron status; Line Gröben: 1772/86 Prussian counts
Schladen	993-1353	extinct medieval noble family of counts from Hildesheim Abbey
Schladen	since 1435	Noble family of the archbishopric of Magdeburg; 1813 Prussian counts.
Mud village	since the 16th century–?	extinct noble family with Frankish roots
Schlatt	since 1094	Swiss aristocratic family that named themselves after the castle in the village of Schlatt near Winterthur
Schledorn	since 1236	Westphalian noble family
Schleinitz	since 1255	Meissen nobility; 1532 confirmation of the status of a Bohemian baron; 1562 imperial count
Schlepegrell	since 1297	Lower Saxon nobility from the Principality of Lüneburg
Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf	1544 to?	extinct ducal house in Schleswig-Holstein, branch line of the House of Oldenburg; Russian grand dukes
Schleswig-Holstein-Hadersleben	1544-1580	extinct line of the Oldenburg dynasty	-
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön	1622-1761	Ducal family
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg	1647-1931	Branch line of the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg from the House of Oldenburg
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg		Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein; Monarchs of Denmark; Kings of Greece; Kings of Norway
Schlichting	since 1447	old, Silesian noble family
Silt (silt)	1355 to 17th century	Patrician family with roots in the Bohemian Eger; 1422 baron, 1437 imperial count;	_{Count v. Schlik}
Close	since 1144	Lusatian nobility; 1660 imperial count for House Birkenfeld; 1704, 1718, 1786, Prussian counts for other houses.
Schliederer of laughter	1283-1791	Palatine nobility
Sleeping	since 1365	originally Kolberg city dynasty; 1444 Danish coat of arms, 1555 Polish aristocratic denomination; 1812 Prussian counts
Schlippenbach	since 1386	Uradel of the County of Mark and the Duchy of Berg; 1654 Swedish counts, 1711 Spanish counts (primogenitur), 1768 imperial barons, 1857 and 1862 Russian recognition of the baron title, in the Kingdom of Prussia the title of count was used without objection
Schlitz called by Görtz	since 1116	Uradel of Fulda; older line: 1677 imperial barons, 1726 imperial counts; younger line: 1694 imperial baron status.
Locks	since approx. 1105	Westphalian noble family
Schlotheim	since 1130	Thuringian nobility; 1788 recognition of the old baron class;
Key mountain	1114-1347	extinct Franconian noble family
Key fields of Kirchensittenbach	1382-1709	extinct patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg
Schlütter	since 1725	Hanoverian noble family
Schmalegg	up to 19th century	Swabian noble family
Schmeheim	13th and 14th century	Thuringian noble family
Schmeling	since 1283	two sexes with a common root: 1st Pomeranian nobility, 2nd mail nobility; Individual members of the family were raised to the baron or count status
Schmettau (Schmettow)	since 1562	family originating from Silesia; Bohemian nobility confirmation 1668; bohem. Baron class 1717; Imperial Count 1742
Schmid	since 1366	Swiss patrician and Junker family from Zurich, extinct there in 1864. German line has dropped nobility titles.
Schmid von Grüneck (Ilanz)	14th to 18th century	Noble family of the city of Ilanz in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
Schmid von Grüneck (Malans)	from the 16th century	Office and noble family of the Free State of the Three Leagues resident in Malans	-
Schmidberg	until 1777	Swabian noble family	-
Schmidt from Schmidtseck	?	Originally from Switzerland, nobilized in Sweden, later resident in Prussia
Forge	since 1650	Upper Lusatian noble family; 1707 Imperial nobility	-
Schmöger on Adelzhausen	since 1744	Bavarian postal nobility
Schmude	since 1490	Pomeranian noble family
Snow white	since the 14th century	old Carinthian family, early also in Lower Styria and the archbishopric of Salzburg, from the 17th century in branches in Germany, in 1699 as an imperial baron
Snow	since 1333	Lower Saxon nobility with the Klein-Schneen parent company of the same name in the Göttingen district
Schnellenberg	1336-1747	extinct Westphalian noble family
More quickly	since 12th century	noble family from Baden-Württemberg
Schnellroda	1208-1308	old Bamberg ministerial family	-
Schnewlin	1215	South Baden noble family
Schnorr von Carolsfeld	since 1687	Saxon noble family	-
String leg	since 1697	South Tyrolean noble family
Scholenfleth	1325 to 15th century	old Holstein noble family	-
Schoeler	since 1769	Prussian military nobility
Schoeller	since 1863	Rhenish entrepreneurial family; 1863 Austrian nobility
Schoenaich-Carolath	since 1329	Original Silesian noble family from Lower Lusatia
Schönau	since 1165	Alsatian nobility, since the 14th century in the southern Black Forest. Lines Schönau-Wehr, Schönau-Zell, Schönau-Schwörstadt and Schönau-Oeschgen, 1668 imperial barons, 1773 French recognition of the baronate for the entire family
Schoenberg	since 1166	Thuringian-Saxon nobility with numerous houses; House Gelenau: Royal Saxon approval to use the title of baron. House Pulsnitz: 1741 imperial count;
Schönborn	since 1180	Uradel from the Rheingau; 1663 Imperial Barons; 1701 Imperial Counts
Schönburg	since 1130	Saxon-Thuringian and Bohemian noble-free noble family; Barons, Counts and Princes.
Schönburg (Schönberg) on Wesel	since 1265	Palatine nobility; Reichsministeriale, then Herrenstand, at the beginning of the 17th century Reichsgrafenstand
Schoenebeck	since the end of the 16th century	Rhenish-Westphalian noble family
Schönebeck	since 15th century	originally from the Altmark patrician and aristocratic family
Schöneberg	12th century to 1419	Noblemen in the High Middle Ages	-
Schöneck	around 1200 to 1508	extinct family of ministers of the Reich
Schönfeld (Bohemia)	since 1594	Bohemian noble family admitted to the imperial nobility	-
Schönfeld (Saxony)	since 1216	Meißnischer nobility, imperial count since 1704
Schönfels	since 1312	Meißnisches nobility
Schönforst	approx. 1350-1419	extinct noble family emerged from the family of the Lords of Schönau
Nice herring	11-15 century	highly free Bavarian-Austrian noble family	-
Schöning	since the beginning of the 13th century	Original nobility from Pomerania.
Schönowsky von Schönwies	?	old Silesian nobility; Austrian noble family	-
Schopper	1267 to the 16th century	Patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
Schorlemer	since 1217	Westphalian nobility; 1844 Prussian recognition of the baron status
Schott von Schottenstein	since 1260	Franconian nobility
Schoultz of Ascheraden	since 1652	Swedish-Baltic noble family with roots in Bohemia
Schrader	since 1708	Lower Saxony postal nobility	-
Schrattenbach	1473	Styrian and later Moravian noble family, 1587 nobility, 1588 barons, 1649 counts
Schrempf	since 1567	old Austrian patrician family with roots in Tyrol, the Salzkammergut in Salzburg and Styria; 1567 award of the coat of arms; 1574 ennobled	-
Schrenck from Notzing	since 1269	Munich patrician family; 1688 Bavarian barons
Schröter	since 1557	Letter post office; originally from Jena; later based in Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Schroeter	since 1901	Prussian letter nobility; originally from the region around Wroclaw
Schrötter	since 1203	Prussian noble family; 1685 Polish knighthood; Prussian nobility confirmation as barons January 27, 1716
Scrap mountain	since 1415	Franconian noble family from Tyrol
Schuckmann	since 1154	family from Westphalia, later in Mecklenburg and Prussia, 1732 imperial nobility
from the Schulenburg	since 1237	first from Brandenburg, later from Prussian nobility; Imperial barons, imperial counts, Danish and Prussian counts.
Schuler von Senden	since 1784	noble family of Lower Saxony; 1784 Imperial nobility, later barons.
Schullern to Schrattenhofen	since 1734	Austrian noble family from Tyrol; 1734 Imperial and Hereditary-Austrian knighthood
School man	since 1634	Estonian noble family, later also widespread in Sweden and Finland
Schulze Pellengahr	?	Westphalian noble family	-
Schumacher	?	Patrician family of the formerly free and independent federal city and republic of Lucerne
Poker	since 1299	Patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg
Schüssler	since 1884	Prussian noble family	-
Schuetz	?	Lower Lusatian noble family	-
Protected called Milchling	since 1035	Originally Bergische then Upper Hesse, later baronial nobility family
Schwabegg	898-1167	extinct, Swabian noble family
Swabia (Schwawe, Svave)	until 1709	ancient Holstein noble family, died out with metta from Swabia in 1709
Schwalbach	since 1275	Rhineland-Hessian noble family
Schwalenberg	1127–1365 (?)	extinct line of Billungian and Guelph liege counts;
Schwanberg	1287 to 15th century	extinct Bohemian noble family
Swan wings	since 13th century	Lower Saxon noble family
Schwartzkoppen	since 1511	Mail nobility; 1688 knightly imperial nobility and herbländisch-Austrian nobility; 1812 Nassau barons
Schwarzburg	since 1108	noble family counts in Thuringia; Princely family	_{Family coat of arms} _{gräfl. coat of arms}
Schwarzenberg	since 1172	Franconian and Bohemian nobility; Imperial barons, imperial counts, imperial princes	_{Family coat of arms} _{Prince's coat of arms}
Schwarzenberg (Black Forest)	1120-1465	two noble Swabian families who owned the Schwarzenburg near Waldkirch one after the other	_{Barons Schwarzenberg}
Schwarzenburg	1048/60 to 14th century	Upper Palatinate noble family
Schwawe	since 1272	Pomeranian noble family that died out in the 17th century
Schweinfurt	to 1057	extinct German noble family	-
Schweinichen	since 1230	Silesian nobility;
Schweinitz	since 1290	Silesian nobility; 1683, 1698 and 1724 Bohemian barons, 1685 Kurbrandenburg confirmation, 1726 Bohemian gentry, 1741 Prussian baron as Baron von Kauder , 1741 and 1748 Prussian count, 1797 Prussian name and coat of arms association as Count von Schweinitz Baron von Schlichting
Schwelm	since the 1st half of the 10th century	Westphalian noble family
Schwendi	1128-1689/1700	extinct Swabian noble family
Schwerdtner	since 1790	Saxon, later also Pomeranian-Prussian noble family, ennobled in 1790, 1845 coat of arms and Name association with the Pomeiske, tied to the Fideikommiss Gr. Pomeiske
Schwerin	1161-1357	The county of Schwerin was established in 1161. The family goes back to Gunzelin von Hagen , the first count of Schwerin.
Schwerin / Schwerin-Wolfshagen	since 1178	Mecklenburg primeval nobility; Imperial barons, imperial counts.
Schwertzell	since 1264h	Hessian noble family
Seckendorff	since 1254	Franconian nobility; Imperial barons, imperial counts
Sedlnitzky von Choltitz	since 1285	Moravian-Silesian noble family; Barons, imperial counts, counts
Seebach	since 1206	Thuringian nobility; Imperial barons, barons
Seeling from Saulenfels	?	Austrian postal nobility	-
Sailor from Mangern	Early 13th century to?	extinct (?) nobility family
Lakes	since 1207	Swiss noble family
Seer-Thoss	since 1388	Silesian noble family, 1721 barons, 1775 counts
Seibold	until about 1686	extinct Swabian noble family
Seiboldsdorf	since 938	old Bavarian noble family
Seilern and Aspang	since 1684	Austrian noble family from Flanders
Seiller	since 1802	bourgeois family from southern Styria; 1850 post office, 1860 Austrian baron class.
Home of being	?	Franconian and Bavarian noble families
Selbold	1200-1578	extinct noble family in the Wetterau, Hesse
Selbold-Gelnhausen	1108–1158 occupied	Counts of the Salian period in the Kinzig valley, Hesse	-
Selchow	since 1242	Neumark nobility
Sell	since 1668	Mecklenburg and Prussian noble families
Sellenbüren	936-1126	extinct noble family in the canton of Zurich
Selmnitz	1115 to the end of the 18th century	Thuringian-knightly, later also baronial prehistoric nobility
Senarclens-Grancy	since about 1300	Vaudois nobility
Send	1174 to about 1600	extinct Westphalian nobility
Mustard from Pilsach	since 1322	Upper Palatinate nobility; Ober-Schmon line: 1812 Saxon counts; Röpsen line: 1862 Prussian approval to use the title of baron.
Sengbusch	since 1796	Originally from Mecklenburg, the German-Baltic noble family that was raised to imperial nobility in 1796
Senger and Etterlin	since 1610	Upper Franconian, later also Austrian noble family
Shepherd from Münsingen	since 1241	Swiss knight dynasty in the Bernese Aare Valley and in the front Emmental
Serainchamps	?	Lorraine aristocratic family, later resident in Bohemia, called Schönfeld in Bohemia
Serényi from Kis-Serény	?	Hungarian-Austrian nobility; 1656 counts
Seulingen	1130 to probably 15th century	Eichsfelder and Lower Saxon noble family
Seuter	since 1559	Kempten patrician and Austrian aristocratic family
Seyboltstorff	approx. 740 to 1957	extinct Bavarian nobility; 1643 imperial baron status; 1692 imperial count status
Seydewitz	since 1299	Meissnian nobility; Older line: 1731 imperial barons, 1775 imperial counts.
Seydlitz	since 1287	Silesian nobility; Tribe Gohlau: 1736 Bohemian barons; Kurzbach tribe: 1754 Prussian baron class; Tribe Ludwigsdorf: 1889 Prussian count as von Seidlitz-Sandreczki ( Primogeniture ).
Sickingen	since 1289	Kraichgauer Uradel; 1623 and 1706 imperial barons, 1773, 1784 and 1790 imperial counts each for different lines.
Sieghardinger	858 to 12th century	one of the most important families of the Bavarian nobility (extinct).	-
Siemens	since 1384	Old town family from Goslar; Post office since 1888, 1895 and 1899.
Siemieński-Lewicki	?	Originally from Mazovia, then belonging to the Galician and Austrian counts and finally to the Austrian nobility
Sievers	?	German-Baltic aristocratic family that was mainly resident in today's Latvia, Estonia and Russia
Signau	since 1130	medieval noble family from the Swiss Emmental
Sinapius	?	Franconian patrician and aristocratic family
Singer from Mossau	?	Imperial knight in the canton of Rhön-Werra in the Franconian knight circle	-
Sinzendorf	since 1242	Upper Austrian nobility; 1610 Imperial Barons; 1648 imperial count; 1803 imperial prince
Sinzing	since 1040	Bavarian aristocratic family that served the Burgraves of Regensburg	-
Sivers	since 1716	German-Baltic noble family; 1716 Estonian indigenous people, 1747 enrolled in the Livonian knighthood, in 1857 accepted into the Courland knighthood
Sizzonen	?	originally a Thuringian aristocratic family	-
Sicker	since 1323	Nobility from Lower Saxony from Aachen
Sloer	?	extinct, Westphalian noble family
Sobieski	before 17th century	Polish noble family of the Janina coat of arms
Sod (noun)	since 1323	old Lower Saxon council family from Hanover; 1790 Imperial Count (older Franconian line); 1831 Württemberg barons and 1868 Bavarian barons (younger Franconian line); 1916 Bavarian counts (Soden-Fraunhofen)
Solern	since 1690	noble lords of Sohlern and the Münda, former property on the Middle Rhine, Moselle and Taunus; the lines to Lorch and to Grarod died out in the 19th century; The descendants of the Barons von Sohlern zu Nastätten have lived in Franconia since around 1840 until today.
Solemaker	from 1658	Rhineland noble family	-
Solèr	since 13th century	Swiss noble family	-
Solms	since 1129	Hessian counts; Title of count since 1223; 1742 imperial princes for the Braunfels tribe , 1792 for the Lich tribe.
Solms-Braunfels		Noble family in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic; Spin-off from Solms; 1742 imperial princes
Somnitz	since 1372	noble family from the Pomerania
Sonderndorfer	since 1102	originally Bavarian, later Austrian nobility
Sondershausen	13th century	Sideline of the Landgrave's Marshal von Eckartsberga
Sonnberg	1066-1400	extinct Austrian ministerial family	-
Sonneberg	1135-1306	extinct medieval noble family
Soterius of Sachsenheim	?	Transylvanian-Saxon noble family
Sovinec	1299-1580	extinct Moravian noble family
Spanheimer	1065-1279	extinct dynasty from Rhine Franconia
Chipboard	since 1637	gender originating from the Netherlands; 1896 Prussian nobility.
Sparneck	1223-1744	extinct Franconian-Vogtland noble family
Spaun	since 1583	nobility from Swabia; 1721 Imperial knighthood as "Noble von Spaun"; 1859 Austrian baron class	-
woodpecker	since 1599	Lower Saxony postal nobility; 1785 imperial nobility; 1855 Baron status
Spee	since 1166	Rhenish nobility from the Archdiocese of Cologne; 1739 Imperial Count
Play from Ostheim	since 1793	Noble family from the Silesian principality of Neisse
Sparrow	since 1092	Swabian noble family; Ministeriale der Zähringen, the dukes of Teck and the Württemberg people
sparrow	since 1274	Mecklenburg noble family, Swedish indigenous people in 1632, Swedish barons in 1653, imperial nobles in 1767, Danish indigenous in 1776, Swedish counts in 1687
Speßhardt	since 1265	Franconian noble family	-
Spiczak Brzeziński	since the 16th century	Kashubian noble family from Adlig Briesen in Western Pomerania , which was already considered noble before 1607; 1804 Prussian recognition of the nobility
Mirror (Meissen)	since 14th century	Meissen noble family
Mirror (Westphalia)	since 1224	Primeval nobility of the principality of Paderborn in Westphalia; 1787 Prussian count for the Desenberg line
Spiegelberg	since 1068	Original noble family from Swabian; formerly Count of Poppenburg, since 1217 Count of Spiegelberg, later Count of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont, Weserbergland, extinct in the male line in 1557
Spiegelberg (Swabia)	13th and 14th century	Swabian noble family, presumably descended from the Thurgau barons von Spiegelberg	-
Spiegelberg (Thurgau)	13th century	Noble family from Thurgau, who owned Spiegelberg Castle near Wetzikon TG in what is now Switzerland	-
Spies from Büllesheim	since 1319	First noble family from the Rhenish Duchy of Jülich; 1827 Prussian recognition of the baron class.
Spitzemberg	since 1535	Lorraine, later Württemberg noble family; 1535 Lorraine nobility; 1736 Lorraine knighthood; 1833 Freiherrnstand; from 1893 Hugo von Spitzemberg ;
Sponeck	since around 1600	Silesian family: Hedwiger , 1701 imperial count as von Sponeck ; 1889 Danish nobility naturalization as Sponneck
Sponheim	since 1045	Counts from the Hunsrück
Spork	since around 1550	Westphalian, later Bohemian noble family, which were already considered noble before 1647; 1647 Imperial Barons, Bohemian Inkolat 1648, Imperial Count 1664, Bohemian Count Confirmation 1666, Galician Landmannschaft 1785, legitimation as Galician Count 1789
Spörcken	since 1308	Lüneburg nobility family
Spokesman for Bernegg	since 1340	Swiss aristocratic family, originally heads and Walsers of the ten-court federation in the Free State of the Three Leagues, 1582 French nobility confirmation with improvement of the coat of arms, 1758 imperial baron, 1818 Dutch baron
Spreti	since 11th century	Italian-Bavarian aristocratic family that has been traceable in Ravenna in northern Italy since the 11th century and in Bavaria since the 17th century
Sprewitz	since 1803	Mecklenburg noble family
Sprinzenstein	until 1970	Austrian noble family, which died out in the male line in 1970; 1530 Baron status
Staal	since 1577	Swiss noble family from the city of Solothurn	-
Stackelberg	since 1244	originally German, then Livonian nobility; 1714/1727 Swedish barons, 1763 Swedish counts, 1775/1786 imperial counts; 1854 Russian recognition of the baron title
Stadion	?	Swabian nobility of a tribe and coat of arms with the stain zum Rechtenstein and from Pflummer . 1686 imperial baron status; 1705 Imperial Counts
Stadl	1180-1882	extinct prehistoric nobility from Styria, which also belonged to the rural nobility in Lower Austria
Staël of Holstein		Westphalian nobility
Staffeldt	since 1208	Altmärkischer Uradel, from 1308 in Mecklenburg, sp. in the 17th century in Denmark
Steel castle	12-13 century	Extinct lineage of noblemen	-
from the stain	since 1197	Swabian nobility; 1611/1623 imperial barons for four lines of the family; 1779 Imperial Counts
Stammer	1295 to the 19th century	extinct Saxon noble family
pole	?	Thuringian-Saxon noble family
Starhemberg	since 1150	gentlemen from Upper Austria; 1643 imperial count, 1765 imperial prince
Starkenberg	until 1452	Tyrolean noble family
Starringer	1010-1575	extinct noble family	-
Starschedel	since 1311	Upper Saxon nobility;
Staufen	1120-1602	South German aristocratic family that lived in the Breisgau and were wealthy and originally acted as ministerials of the Zähringer
Staufer	approx. 1000-1268	Swabian noble family that produced several Swabian dukes and Roman-German kings and emperors in the 12th and 13th centuries
Stauff	since 1335	noble noble family from Upper Palatinate
(Gift from) Stauffenberg	since 1262	Swabian nobility; 1698 Imperial Barons; 1791 Imperial Count
Stechow	since 1181	Brandenburg nobility; 1703 Confirmation of the baron status
Steding	since 1244	Westphalian noble family in the Oldenburger Münsterland
Steffan von Cronstetten	1621-1731	Patrician family in Frankfurt am Main	-
Steger from Ladendorf	since 1170	old, Austrian noble family that belonged to the primeval nobility in Upper Austria and was accepted into the rural nobility in Lower Austria
Stone (pomerania)	until the middle of the 17th century	extinct Pomeranian noble family - there are also 13 independent sexes of the same name
Stein (Black Forest)	13th and 14th century	Ministerial and noble family in the southern Black Forest
Stone (Vogtland)	-	Vogtland noble family
Stone from Hilpoltstein	1129 to 1385	Franconian noble family
Kamienski Stone	?	originally Polish, later Prussian noble family
Stein zu Lausnitz	since 1117	Eastern nobility with the parent company Lausnitz near Neustadt an der Orla, later lines "Stein zu Kochberg" and "Stein zu Braunsdorf" with a split coat of arms.
Stone to Nassau	since 1195	Nassau nobility
Stone to north and east home	since 1273	Franconian nobility
Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld	since 1116	Hessian-Thuringian nobility; 1845 Saxony-Meiningische recognition of the baron class
Landschad von Steinach	12th century to 1653	Lower nobility in the Odenwald
Steinaecker		mail aristocratic family from Anhalt; 1637 imperial nobility; 1861 Prussian approval to continue the title of baron.
Steinau called Steinrück	since 1105	Franconian noble family
Steinbach von Kranichstein	?	of German descent, wealthy in Bohemia; 1664 Bohemian knighthood; 1714 as a baron
Steinberg	12th century to 1911	Lower Saxon nobility
Stones	since 1460	Bergisches and Lower Rhine-Westphalian noble families
Steinheim	?	Swabian noble family
Steinhilben	1247-16. century	medieval south-west German noble family.
Stone cellar	before 1404 to the 16th century	extinct patrician and noble family from the Wroclaw region	-
Stone cellar	since 1355	Mecklenburg-Pomerania noble family with a Brandenburg line
Steinpeiss	?	Austrian noble family that belonged to the Lower Austrian rural nobility as well as to the nobility of Styria and Carniola
Stone weir	since 1216	Holstein and Pomeranian nobility, spread to Brandenburg, Westphalia, Magdeburg and East Prussia	_{Steinwehr-Nemitz} _{Steinwehr-Woitfick}
To stem	1378-1582	extinct, Lower Saxon noble family	-
stamp	since 1203	Prussian and Courland noble families
Stenbock	? n	two Swedish noble families; one with a German-Baltic branch
stem	1740 untitled letter nobility, 1788 baron	flourishing electoral palatinate or Bavarian noble family
Stenglin	since 1518	Originally a southern German patrician family, who were raised to the imperial nobility in the 16th century, came to northern Germany in the 18th century and became a Danish and Mecklenburg noble family there
Stepperg	?	Bavarian noble family	-
Sterker (from Wohlsbach)	12th century	Franconian-Thuringian burgrave family
Sternbach to Stock and Luttach	?	Austrian high nobility
Sternberg (Count)	1250-1330	Extinct Carinthian dynasty that was immediately part of the empire - side line of the Counts of Heunburg	-
Sternberg	since 1167	Bohemian noble family; Bohemian tribe: 1637 confirmation of the status of a Bohemian count; Silesian tribe: 1698 Bohemian barons
Sternberg	until 1287	extinct Franconian aristocratic family that was related to the Counts of Henneberg	-
Star Rock	since 1232	noble, Swabian noble family; 1828 Matriculation in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the baron class.
Stetten	since 1098	Franconian nobility; Enrolled in the Kingdom of Württemberg with the Freiherrenklasse.
Stetten	since 1254	Widespread evangelical Augsburg councilors and merchants
Stettenberg	1237 to around 1500	Franconian noble family
Steuben	since 1262	Uradel from the Mansfeld region; 1812 Nassau recognition of the baron class
Walkable		Franconian noble family; 1633 imperial nobility; 1795 hereditary-Austrian counts
goldfinch	1583	1583 "Stieglitz von Tschenkau", 1765 German imperial noble family, which goes back to a bourgeois Protestant family of the Leipzig patriciate
Stietencron	since 1493	Erfurt councilors; 1709 Imperial nobility
Stillfried	1178	Bohemian aristocratic family dating back to the 9th century; 1662 Bohemian barons; 1792 Imperial Count for the middle line
Stiten	14th century to 1692	from Mecklenburg, extinct noble family
Stockhausen (Lower Saxony)	since 1111	Lower Saxon nobility
Stockhausen (Westphalia)	since 1405	Westphalian nobility
Stockhausen (Thuringia)	since 1495	Thuringian postal nobility; 1702 Imperial nobility
Stöger-Steiner from Steinstätten	since 1891	noble family from Styria; 1891 hereditary Austrian nobility
Stör von Störnstein	since 1138	Upper Palatinate noble family
Stoislaff	since 14th century	Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility
Stojentin	since 1341	Pomeranian nobility
Stokar	since 1559	Swiss patrician and aristocratic family
Stolberg	since 1210	noble noble noble family from the Harz mountains; 1742 imperial princes
Stoltzenberg	since 1786	Prussian noble family
Stork (1753)	since 1753	from Osnabrück, who were raised to imperial nobility in Vienna in 1753. The earlier alleged ancestry from the Swedish Stårk is unproven. - Two other noble families of Storch (ennobled in 1775 and 1790) are not related to this one.
Stosch	since 1250	Silesian nobility, Bohemian baron class in 1701, Prussian recognition in 1840, Prussian count class in 1798, a family with the same name has existed since 1701, a branch has been named Stosch von Tettau since 1936 through adoption
Stotel	1171-1350	Lower Saxon noble lords and counts	-
Stotzingen	since 1286	Swabian nobility, 1591 imperial barons, 1592 Lower Austrian gentry, 1608 hereditary-Austrian confirmation of the baron, 1911 grand-ducal Baden confirmation of the use of the baron title for the entire family
Strachwitz	since 1285	Ancient nobility of Silesia; 1630 Bohemian barons; 1798 Prussian counts
Strahlberger	1174-1404	extinct medieval lineage of noble free	-
Stralendorff	since 1217	Mecklenburg nobility, 1625 old Bohemian gentry, 1810 Mecklenburg-Schwerin approval to use the title of baron
Stralenheim	since the 16th century	Swedish-Pomeranian postal nobility. 1685 Swedish nobility, 1699 Swedish barons, 1708 imperial counts, 1717 Lorraine counts as Comte de Forbach
Beach man	since 1740	German-Baltic family, 1740 imperial nobility
Strantz	since 1120	Brandenburg noble noble family
Strassberg	since 1181/2	Aristocratic family based at Strassberg Castle near Büren an der Aare
Strättligen	since 1175	Swiss noble family
Strauss and Torney	since 1584	Lower Saxony postal nobility; 1852 Austrian nobility	-
Streak	1250-1352	knightly Swiss ministerial family of the diocese of Chur and the barons of Vaz	-
Streiff from Lauenstein	?	Palatinate nobility; wealthy in Livonia in the 17th century
Strein	since approx. 1115	old noble family, which belongs to the so-called Apostle families of Austria as well as to the rural Lower Austrian nobility or Lower Austrian nobility
Streitberg	before 1120 to 1690	extinct Franconian noble family
Strele	11th to 1384	Extinct Reich ministerial family from the Burgraviate Strehla on the Elbe
Strobel	13th to 15th century	Franconian noble family	-
Stromer from Reichenbach	since 1236/42	Franconian nobility; 1709 imperial baron status
Strünkede	1142-1812	free knight family from the Herner area; 1636 imperial baron status
Struensee	since 1477	from the Mark Brandenburg family, which was ennobled mainly in Prussia in the 18th and 19th centuries	-
Struve	since the 16th century	from the Magdeburg family, which belonged to the Russian nobility since the end of the 18th century	-
Stryk	since 1276	Westphalian, then Baltic primal nobility, of a tribe with the Vogt von Elspe , 1631 Swedish naturalization, 1745 enrollment with the Livonian knighthood, 1881 enrollment with the Estonian knighthood
Stubenberg	since 1143	extinct Styrian nobility; 1742 Reich count confirmation.
Studnitz	since 1358	West Moravian nobility
Telescopic nail	since 1321	Uckermark nobility
Stürgkh	since 1333	Austrian noble family, originally from Donaustauf in Bavaria, later moved to Styria; 1532 Styrian knighthood; 1638 baron class; 1715 counts; 1721 Imperial Counts
Stürler	since 1806	Bernese patrician family, which has owned the city of Bern since the 14th century and is now a member of the Ober-Gerwern Society and the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen; Nobility title since 1806
Stumpenhusen	1091-1231	old Lower Saxony, extinct noble family
Mute	since 1815; Progenitor Johann Nicolaus Stumm (1669–1742)	Mining entrepreneur from the Hunsrück, Bavarian baron in 1815
Sturm von Sturmeck	13th to 17th century	Alsatian noble family	-
Storm spring from Oppenweiler	since 1262	Swabian nobility; 1830 Austrian recognition of the imperial baron status
Stutterheim (Alt-Stutterheim)	since 1143	Thuringian nobility family; 1819 Austrian baron for the Neuendorf line.
Styrcea	since 1428	originate from an old boyar family from the Principality of Moldova; Austrian and later also English noble family; 1789 Austrian nobility patent; 1880 as a baron
Sützel	before 1355 until?	extinct Franconian noble family from the Odenwald
Suchodoletz	since 1660	Polish noble family who moved to East Prussia around 1660 for reasons of faith
Suchodolski	since 1413	Polish noble family; 1800 Galician counts
Suckow	1282-1635; since 1714	two noble families from Mecklenburg; Spread to East Frisia and Saxony	-
Suhm	1537-1823	Holstein family, Danish nobility diploma in 1683, spread to Electoral Saxony and the West Indies	-
Sulima / Sułkowski	since 1397	Polish noble family (coats of arms community of 156 names)
Sulz	910-1687	extinct south German noble family
Sulzbach	980-1188	extinct counts from the Nordgau
Vogt of Sumerau	?	Swabian nobility
Sundhausen	1109 to the 17th century	two Thuringian noble families of the same name
Supplinburger	from 11th century	Family of the Roman-German King and Emperor Lothar III.	-
Sweet Child (-Schwendi)	since 1425	gender originating from Württemberg; 1821 Bavarian nobles and barons
Suttner	since 1715	Austrian noble family; 1715 knighthood; 1727 Lower Austrian knighthood	-
Swenzonen	13th and 14th century	Pomeranian and Pomeranian noble families	-
Sybel	since 1831	Prussian noble family whose origins lie in Freudenberg (Siegerland)	-
Syberg	since 1377	Primeval nobility of the county of Mark; 1819/1827 baron status
Sydow	since 1259	Brandenburg primeval nobility
Syrgenstein	?	Swabian noble family
Széchényi	since 1629	Hungarian mail nobility
Székely from Kövend	since 1629	Hungarian-Austrian noble family; originally from Transylvania
Szembek	since 1557	Kraków city dynasty, allegedly from Tyrol, 1566 Polish indigenous people, 1579 imperial nobility, 1782 and 1784 legitimation at the Galician country table as Knights of Słupow, 1816 Prussian counts