List of German noble families / V
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Surname | Period | Remarks | coat of arms |
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Vahl | since 1794 | noble family from Western Pomerania | |
Vaihingen | ? until 1364 | extinct medieval noble family in Franconia and Swabia | |
Vaistli | 14th century | Austrian noble family from Nüziders (Vorarlberg) | - |
Valepage | 14th to 15th century | Knight family of the Paderborn country, also called Valepage from the Wichmodeberg | |
Valley | 1102-1268 | extinct, Bavarian counts | - |
Valzner | 1387-1427 | extinct patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg | |
Van der Straten-Ponthoz | since 19th century | Belgian-Austrian noble family; lordly counts | |
Vangerow (Pomerania) | since 1364 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Vangerow (Neumark) | since 1568 | from the Neumark pen nobility family; 1798/1828 Prussian nobility; |
minor deviations |
Varell | ? | extinct Franconian knighthood | - |
Varendorff | since 1170 | presumably originally free-of-charge Westphalian nobility with the headquarters of the same name in the former county of Tecklenburg | |
Varnhagen from Ense | since 1505 | Westphalian nobility family; 1826 Prussian nobility | |
Vasmann | ? | Vogtland or Meißnisches noble family | - |
Vaz | 1135-1338 | Swiss noble family | |
Vegesack | since 1598 | Livonian family with origin (1354/1410) in Münster, 1598 Swedish-Polish nobility, 1651 Swedish aristocratic renovation, 1745 enrollment with the Livonian knighthood, 1802 Swedish baron, 1830 introduction to the baron class of the Swedish knighthood, 1867 enrollment with the Oesel knighthood also to Franconia, Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania and West Prussia | |
Veilsdorf | 1195 to 15th century | extinct Vogtland-Franconian ministerial family | |
Velen | 13th century to 1756 | First dynasties, later knight dynasty | |
Vellberg | 1102-1592 | South German noble family with possessions in the knightly canton of Odenwald | |
Veltheim | 1157-1238 | noble, extinct family, presumably from Swabia, in the Duchy of Saxony, who appeared as Counts of Osterburg and Altenhausen. - There is also the original noble ministerial family von Veltheim, first mentioned in 1141, which, however, did not descend from them | |
Venier | since 11th century | Venetian patrician family; In 1857 he was raised to the rank of count in Austria | |
Venningen | since 1139 | old Kraichgau knight family; 1821 enrollment in the Bavarian baron class | |
Verger | 17th to 19th century | Italian-Swiss noble family | - |
Decline | 972-1415 | dynastic, Swabian counts of the Middle Ages | |
Verschuer | since 1477 | Family from Appeltebroek near Barnevelt in Gelderland; 1696 Imperial barons and coat of arms association with the von Trott zu Solz | |
Verse | since 1217 | noble family from Lower Saxony | |
Vestenberg | 1263-1565 | extinct Franconian-Swabian knight family based in Vestenberg near Petersaurach | |
Cousin of the Lily | ? | Austrian high nobility that comes from Lower Styria | |
Cousin of Lilienberg | until 1842 | Austrian counts | |
Vieregg, Vieregge also square | since 1346 | mecklenburg nobility; 1552 in Bavaria, 1692 imperial baron, 1790 imperial count; 1590 in Pomerania, 1692 Prussian indigenous people, 1834 Prussian counts; 1703 Danish count, 1776 Danish nobility naturalization | |
Viermünden (Virmond) | before 1260 to 1744 | extinct Hessian noble family, branch lines in Westphalia ( Virmond-Bladenhorst ) and on the Lower Rhine ( Virmond-Neersen ), 1621 barons, 1706 imperial counts | |
Vietinghoff | since 1230 | Westphalian nobility of the county of Mark; Barons for several of the 14 lines. | |
Viktorids | 6th to 8th century | one of the earliest aristocratic houses in Switzerland | - |
Vincke | since 1223 | Westphalian nobility; Prussian approval to use the title of baron | |
Vintler | since 13th century | Tyrolean noble family | |
Virneburg | 1042-1445 | zealous counts | |
Vitzthum from Apolda | 1123 to? | extinct Thuringian noble family (of a tribe with the Vitzthum von Eckstädt) | |
Vitzthum of Eckstädt | since 1123 | Thuringian nobility; 1711 Imperial Counts | |
Vogt of Elspe | since 1297 | extinct ancient noble family in the Duchy of Westphalia | |
Vogt of Soest | since 1141 (extinct) | Aristocratic family named after the office in the Soest area | |
Vogt of Sumerau | ? | Swabian nobility | |
Vogt of Weida , Gera and Plauen | since the middle of the 12th century | Medieval aristocratic family in the area of today's Thuringia and Saxony. The Vogtland is named after them. | |
Voit von Rieneck | since 1251 | Franconian nobility; 1673 imperial baron status; 1697 Imperial Counts | |
Voit from Salzburg | 1258 (?) To 1853 | Service men on the Salzburg, arose from the Fieger family, who were wealthy in Haßgau . | |
Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach | since 1378 | Upper Palatinate nobility, originally from the Nuremberg patrician family | |
Volen von Wildenau | since 1232 | Swabian noble family | |
Volkenstorfer | 1120-1616 | Noble noble family of Upper Austria. In the 12th century it entered the ministry of the Styrian margraves | |
Volland | since 1276 | Originally from Swabia, the Vogt family, in 1530 and 1570 were raised to the imperial nobility | |
Full spit | 1210-1553 | extinct Westphalian noble family belonging to the knighthood | |
Volmestein | 1134 to early 15th century | Rhenish noble family | |
Voss (Mecklenburg) | since 1253 | Primeval nobility from Mecklenburg; Houses in Giewitz and Buch: 1800 and 1840, respectively, Prussian counts | |
Voss (Lower Saxony) | since 1221 | Primeval nobility from the Osnabrücker Nordland and the Oldenburger Münsterland; | |
Voss (Diepholz) | early 16th century | Noble family from Diepholz | |
Voss (County Mark) | 13th Century | Noble family from the County of Mark | |
Vrints to Falkenstein | ? | Bremen family who rose to the Austrian nobility through marriage | |
Vrtba | 16th century to first half of the 19th century | extinct Bohemian noble family | - |
Vultejus (Vultée) | since 1446 | Hessian family from Wetter near Marburg an der Lahn; 1630 imperial nobility; |