List of German noble families / W
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Surname | Period | Remarks | coat of arms |
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Guard home | since 13th century | Palatinate nobility | |
Wachholtz (Wachholz / Wacholz) | since 1249 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Wackenitz (Wakenitz) | since 1322 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Wackerbarth | since 1228 | First noble family from the Duchy of Lauenburg; 1705 imperial count status; since 1810 also royal Saxon barons for a line (since 1817 there has also been an aristocratic mailing family). | |
Wagenhoff | since 1496 | Noble family originating in Bavarian Swabia; 1555 Confirmation of imperial nobility by Emperor Karl V. | |
Wagensperg | 1349 | Krainer Uradel; 1602/1621 hereditary-Austrian baron class; 1625 imperial count status | |
choice | ? | Baltic noble family; Enrolled in the Livonian, Estonian and Courland Knighthood | |
Orphan of Fauerbach | since about 1266 | Noble knight family in the vicinity of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg , extinct in 1620. | |
Waitz von Eschen | since 1570 | family originating from Thuringia; 1764 imperial barons (since 1786 there has also been an homonymous nobility of the same name, created through adoption). | |
Walahones | 9th and 10th centuries | Counts from the Middle Rhine | - |
Walcher from Molthein | since 1854 | Austrian noble family; 1854 Austrian nobility; 1873 knighthood | |
Walck | since 1792 | Palatinate-Bavarian mail nobility with the predicate Noble von . | |
Walcke-Schuldt | since 1749 | Prussian noble family | |
Waldbott from Bassenheim | since 1136 | Rhenish nobility; 1638 imperial barons, 1720 imperial count for the Bassenheim line; 1646 imperial barons for the Königsfeld line; 1828 Prussian recognition of the baron class for the Bornheim line. | |
Forest castle | since 1170 | Noble Swabian nobility that was raised to the baron and count status and divided into numerous lines, of which the following are extinct (†): Waldburg-Warthausen († first half of the 13th century); Waldburg-Rohrdorf, later Waldburg-Meßkirch († around 1350); Waldburg-Sonnenberg († 1511); Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil († 1589); Waldburg-Waldburg († 1600); Waldburg-Friedberg-Scheer († 1717); Waldburg-Scheer († 1764); Waldburg-Trauchburg († 1772); Waldburg-Waldsee († 1833); Waldburg-Capustigall († 1875); Waldburg-Bestendorf (†?); Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach († 1903). --- The lines Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldsee , Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg and Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems still exist. | |
Waldeck | since 1137 | County in the Holy Roman Empire, since 1815 - as the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont | |
Waldeck | 12th Century | Noble family in the southern Black Forest | - |
Waldeck-Bergheim | 1778-1938 | Count's branch line of the Waldeck family | - |
Waldeck to Alten- and Hohenwaldeck | since the middle of the 11th century | old Bavarian noble family | |
Waldenburg | around 1199 | Meissnian-Thuringian noble noble family, which presumably descends from the noble noble family of those of Wartha | - |
Waldenfels | since 1248 | Franconian nobility; 1814 enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the baron class | |
Walderdorff | since 1211 | Noble family of the Westerwald region; 1663 baron class; 1666 count estate; 1745 imperial princes | |
Waldersee | since 1786 | Noble family from the illegitimate Ascanian branch | |
Waldesian | 1212 to early 15th century | Noble family in Anhalt , extinct at the beginning of the 15th century | |
Waldkirch | since 1487 | Citizens of the city of Schaffhausen (Switzerland) | |
Waldner von Freundstein | since 9th century | Alsatian noble family that later also had possessions in the Ortenau | |
Waldorf | Sex originating from Cologne / Rhine; 1664 Bohemian nobility; 1702 Bohemian barons; 1727 Bohemian counts | - | |
Waldow | since 1223 | originally Bavarian noble family from the Nordgau; since 1814 there has been a line under the name of Waldow and Reitzenstein | |
Waldstätten | 1397 | Old Moravian noble family, Austrian barons 1754 | |
Waldstein | since 1278 | old Bohemian gentry; 1632 imperial count for the entire family | |
Waldstromer from Reichelsdorf | 1230-1844 | extinct patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg | |
Forest houses | since the 16th century | A patrician and industrial family that has lived in Essen since the middle of the 17th century, coming from the Hamelin area | |
Waldthurn | since 1217 | Upper Palatinate noble family | |
Wallbrunn | since 1190 or 1354 | appear from 1190 first as Lords of Ramstadt , from 1354 as Lords of Wallbrunn ; Imperial Knighthood, Hessian and Rhineland nobility; Headquarters in Partenheim near Mainz; Bohemian barons 1724, extension to the entire family in 1726 | |
Wallenberg | since 1695 | Bohemian-Silesian noble family | |
Wallenrodt | since 1244 | old Franconian noble family; 1676 imperial count status | |
Wallis of Carrighmain | since 12th century | Aristocratic family originally from France, which acquired estates and reputation in Ireland and Scotland and entered the imperial Austrian service with a branch | |
Wallmoden | since 1154 | Lower Saxon nobility; 1782 imperial count status | |
Walpote | 994 to around 1300 | Extinct noble Franconian family from Zwernitz Castle , in the service of the king and the Bamberg bishop | - |
Whale lake | 1288-1483 | extinct gentlemen from Swabia | |
Walsleben | 1243 to? | Pomeranian and Mecklenburg nobility | |
Walterskirchen | ? | Austrian noble family | |
Wambolt from Umstadt | since 838 | Rhenish-Hessian nobility of the Niddagau; 1664 imperial baron status | |
Wamekow | 1311 to the end of the 15th century | extinct, Mecklenburg noble family | |
Wangelin | 1249 to the 19th century | Mecklenburg nobility that belonged to the vassals of the princes of Werle | |
Wangenheim | since 1133 | Thuringian nobility; 1855/1856/1858/1866/1871 recognition of the baron status by various sovereigns; 1840 Counts for the Winterstein tribe | |
Wänker from Dankenschweil | ? | Post-aristocratic family, which descends from the noble family of Dankenschweil with headquarters in Danketsweiler | - |
Warburg | since 1244 | Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility | |
Wardenburg | since 1345 | German-Baltic noble family that settled in Estonia, on the island of Ösel, around 1770 | |
Warendorf | 1183 to? | Aristocratic family originally from Warendorf, which rose in the patriciate of Lübeck and provided councilors and mayors in this city from 1183 to 1566. | |
Warnstedt | since 1249 | Family from the Magdeburg nobility, later also in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and Sweden | |
Warsberg | since 1369 | Lorraine prehistoric nobility; 1826 Prussian recognition of the baron class | - |
Wait | 12th to 14th century | Swiss noble family in the area of today's Canton of Zurich | |
Wartenberg (Bohemia) | ? until 1758 | Dead old Bohemian noble family | |
Wartenberg | since 1215 | South German noble family with the ancestral seat of Burg Wartenberg and Obere Burg Wartenberg on the Wartenberg near Geisingen | |
Wartenberg (Palatinate) | before 1169 to 1818 (1844) | dead family named after Wartenberg Castle near Kaiserslautern; 1699 count status | |
Wartenberg (Altmark-North Thuringia) | from 1239 to | old noble family from the Altmark and Thuringia | |
Wartenberg (Bavaria) | 1588 (1602) until 1736 | Dead Bavarian noble family named after Castle and Gut Wartenberg , morganatic line of the Wittelsbach tribe ; 1602 Count estate | |
Wartenfels | 13th and 14th century | Swiss aristocratic family named after the castle of the same name near Lostorf | - |
Waiting life | since 1270 | Magdeburg nobility; 1703 Prussian counts; | |
Wasaburg | since 17th century | Swedish aristocratic family living in Germany, which formed a bastard line of the Swedish royal house Wasa | |
Wasen | since 1150 | Noble free in the vicinity of the Electoral Mainz city of Aschaffenburg and on the Untermain, extinct in 1611/1612. | |
Wasielewski | since 1531 | Polish noble family; with Nicolaus Wasilewski 1531 (Urk.d.Kgs.Sigismund I. for the city of Lubelsk (Lublin)), whose lineage in Prussia with Thaddäus v. Wasielewski, 1739, died 1803, begins. Legitimation at the Galician country table as Rr October 26, 1789 (for Thomas Wasielewski (W.Rogala)); | |
Wassenberg | 1020-1371 | Counts of the Lower Rhine, from which the dukes of Geldern emerged | - |
Wasserstelz | 1174-1319 | Swabian ministerial family | |
Wassilko | 1097 | The old Moldovan boyar family (1350) descended from the knjasen in the Kiev governorate, were Austrian barons in 1855, counts in 1918, and belonged to the nobility since 1907 | |
Wasungen | ? | three unrelated, Thuringian noble families | - |
Watzdorf | since 1261 | Thuringian nobility; 1719 Imperial Count for House Crostau; 1837 Saxon barons for the Kauschwitz family; | |
Weber | since 1808 | Bavarian noble family | |
Weber von Webenau | since 1769 | Austrian postal nobility; 1818 Austrian nobility | |
Webern | since 1731 | Austrian postal nobility, 1731 as "Noble von Webern" | |
Wechmar | since 1170 | Thuringian nobility | |
Wedderkop | before 1682 | Belgian-Holstein noble family, 1683 renewal of the nobility by Emperor Leopold II and admission to the knighthood of Schleswig-Holstein. This means that the sex within the knighthood is one of the recepti (in contrast to the Equites Originarii ). | |
Wedekind (to the Horst) | since 1278; and 1649 | old Lower Saxon family, from which Johann Ludwig Wedekind (* 1673; † 1725) received the status of Russian baron, one branch received the Hessian baron status in 1809 and another in 1915 the Prussian nobility; Probably not related to the family of the Schwarzburg family, documented since 1649, which was ennobled in 1749 | |
frond | since 1212 | Primeval nobility from Stormarn; - House Evenburg : Danish counts in 1684, Prussian counts in 1776, Prussian in 1914. Princes; Wedellsborg House : 1672 Danish counts; House Eilenstedt : 1798 Prussia. Count class; Rehfeld House : 1903 Prussian counts | |
Wedemeyer | since 1472 | Lower Saxony-Lüneburg postal nobility; 1819 Prussian nobility | |
Wegner | around 1500 | Family originating from Saxony; 1635 Polish nobility with Prussian indigenous people; there is also a Wegnern family who was ennobled in 1822. | |
Wehingen | ? | Lower aristocratic Swabian knight family | - |
Soft | since 1363 | old Bavarian nobility; 1623 imperial barons for the older line, 1636 for the younger line; | |
Weichselberg | 1050–1254 (?) | noble sex of the Middle Ages | - |
Weida | since 12th century | Thuringian noble family | |
Willow Hill | 1223-1425 | Franconian noble family | - |
Weigel | 1285-1430 | Patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg | |
Pond | since 1234/1357 or 1280 | Two noble families in Pomerania and Brandenburg; 1806 Prussian baron class for von Weiher from Pomerania as von Weiher and Nimptsch. The Brandenburg ponds received the status of imperial count in 1637. |
Pomeranian pond Brandenburg pond |
Weiher zu Nickenich | since 1163 | Knights from Nickenich in the Pellenz | - |
Weikersheim | 1911-1983 | Austrian noble family and princely family from Württemberg | - |
hamlet | since around 1100 | Wuerttemberg nobility family; 1900 Württemberg recognition as Freiherr von und zu Weiler | |
hamlet | since 1212 | Swabian noble family, which was divided into the lines Altenburg and Scheiben; Ancestral castle was the Altenburg near Weiler in the Allgäu | |
Weimar (Weimar-Orlamünde) | 10th to 12th century | thuringian noble family | |
Vineyard | since 1226 | Feudal men of the Palatinate electors. The Lords of Weingarten formerly owners of Berwartstein Castle in 1343 a. Diemerstein Castle in the 15th century | |
Weinberg | 1140-1507 | extinct Hohenstaufen ministerial family from the Gmünd area | |
Weißelsdorf | 13th Century | extinct early knight dynasty in the Hofer area | - |
Weissenbach | since 1217 | Upper Saxon nobility | |
Weissenburg | 1175-1368 | extinct noble family resident in the Bernese Oberland | |
Weissenstein | 1037 to? | Medieval feudal people of the Margrave of Baden | - |
Weissenwolff | 1192-1917 | Austrian noble family; originally probably from Franconia | |
Weißpriach | since 1327 | Original nobility from Salzburg | |
Wide fraction | 1166 | Lower aristocratic, Alsatian family, which has been attested for Weitbruch and its surroundings since 1166 |
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Weitershausen | ? | Thuringian, Hessian and Swabian noble families | - |
Weitolshausen called Schrautenbach | ? | at the end of the 15th century immigrated from Würzburg via Heidelberg to the Landgraviate of Hesse, later a baron aristocratic family |
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Weitzel-Mudersbach | since 1553 | Originally resident in Hessen, the Prussian noble family |
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Weizsacker | since 1535 | old Palatinate miller family, from which Carl Weizsäcker received first the personal nobility in 1897 and the hereditary baron title in 1916 | |
Wilt | since 1503 | Saxon mail nobility; 1785 imperial nobility; 1782 imperial baron status; | |
Welczeck | since the 14th century | Silesian nobility; 1656 imperial baron status; 1894 hereditary count | |
Welda, Wellede | 1188 to around 1500 | old Westphalian noble family | |
Guelphs | 800-1055 and to this day | originally Burgundian and Swabian ruling dynasty with European significance, whose connection with the later and today's Guelphs is not certain. | - |
Welhartitz | ? –1390 | extinct Bohemian nobility | - |
Weling | since 1816 | Bavarian noble family of Jewish descent | |
Welling | ? | Livonian noble family originally from Münster in Westphalia | |
Welser | since 1246 | since 1567 Barons Welser von Zinnenburg; by acquiring the rule of Neunhof in 1660 members of the Franconian Imperial Knighthood; 1814 simple Bavarian nobility, 1819 Bavarian barons | |
Wels-Lambacher | 1020-1090 | medieval Bavarian counts | - |
Weltzien | since 1270 | Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility | |
Welzl from Wellenheim | since 1808 | Austrian post office | |
Wenckstern | since 1315 | Mecklenburg-Brandenburg nobility | |
Wenden (Livonia) | 1141-1867 | Brunswick, later also semi-urban and Brandenburg family, 1735 in Livonia, 1797 enrollment with the Livonian knighthood | |
Wenden (Pomerania) | since 1699 | Pomeranian-Prussian noble family | |
Wendhausen | since 1683 | aristocratic family from Brunswick and later also from Mecklenburg, in 1683 and 1684 imperial nobility, in 1721 imperial barons | |
Wendt | since 1231 | Westphalian nobility; Barons, state count in 1715 | |
Wenkheim | since 1660 | Frankish postal nobility; 1748 hereditary-Austrian knighthood, 1776 baron class, 1802 Hungarian count class; | |
from the Wense | since 1330 | Lower Saxon nobility | |
Vienna | before 1330 to 16th century | old Holstein noble family that was closely related to the knights of Barmstede , the knights of Raboisen and the von Wedel . | |
Wentzky | from 1476 to the middle of the 20th century | Silesian noble family | |
Will (pommerelles) | since about 1300 | Pomeranian noble family; immigrated from Werden on the Ruhr to Danzig | |
Werden (Rhineland) | 1223 - approx. 1290 | Rhineland noble family after Werden an der Ruhr; Sideline of Messrs. Schilling von Bornheim from Bornheim near Bonn | - |
Werdenberg | 1259-1534 | extinct south-west German-Swiss counts | Werdenberg-Heiligenberg Werdenberg-Sargans |
Werder (Brandenburg) | since 1369 and 1522 | a noble family and a noble family each; 1879 Prussian counts for the ancient nobles of Werder | |
Werder (Lower Saxony) | since 1132 | Ministerial sex (de insula) or from the old market (de antiquo foro or de veteri foro), repeated bailiffs of the city of Hildesheim in the 12th and 13th centuries | |
Werder (Merseburg) | 1327-1794 | Noble family from the Merseburg ministry | |
Werl | since 987 | Westphalian counts; from them the Counts of Arnsberg and the Gravel von Hövel developed | |
Werlhof | since 1776 | Lower Saxony postal nobility | |
Werminghausen | 1278 to? | old Westphalian noble family with headquarters near Iserlohn | |
Wernau | 1264-1696 | extinct Swabian noble family | |
Werner | 11-12 century | Counts from Swabia | - |
Wernhardt | ? | German, Hungarian and Austrian noble families; 1818 hereditary-Austrian baron status | |
Wernigk of St. Ingbrecht | since 1709 | Palatine noble family | - |
Wernsdorff | since 1277 | Prussian noble family | |
Wersebe | since 1189 | Bremisches nobility; 1901 or 1905 KuK prevalence of the baron title previously used | |
Wertheim | 1132-1556 | extinct noble family from the Middle Rhine-Franconian; there are still two noble families of the same name | |
Werthern | since 1209 | Thuringian nobility; 1844 Prussian approval of the title of baron, 1702 and 1706 imperial count status for different lines. | |
Wessenberg | 1029 to? | Swiss aristocratic family, originally from today's Canton of Aargau | |
Westenholz | ? | aristocratic, Austrian noble family | |
Westerholt | since 1225 | Westphalian nobility; Hackfort line : 1650 imperial baron status ; Westerholt tribe : 1790 imperial count; | |
Westernach | 1257 to? | Swabian nobility; 1693 imperial baron status, 1814 entry in the Bavarian aristocratic register of the baron class | |
Westernhagen | since 1258 | Thuringian nobility from the Eichsfeld | |
Westphalen | since 1249 | East Westphalian nobility; 1792 Imperial Counts | |
Wettberg | 1224–? | Lower Saxon-Westphalian noble family, with a branch in the Baltic region since the 15th century | |
Wettiner | since 982 | Dynasty of German margraves, electors and kings | |
Wettstein from Westersheimb | since 1331 | Austro-Hungarian gender, with roots in Switzerland; 1709 Imperial knighthood | |
Wetzendorf | 1061-1349 / 50 | extinct Thuringian noble family | - |
Weveld | since 1644 | Bavarian noble family | - |
Wevelinghoven | 1145-1460 | one of the most important Rhenish aristocratic families (extinct); a family of Wevelinchoven had the same coat of arms and went out in 1955 | |
Weymarn | since 1693 | German-Russian noble family | |
Wicht / t (h) o Wicht (e) | since 1400 | East Frisian aristocratic family that originally lived in Lintel near Norden |
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Wickede | since 1230 | Dortmund councilors, then Lübeck councilors and canons | |
Wiczlinski | ? | Polish and Prussian noble families | |
Widmann-Sedlnitzky | since 19th century | Family with roots in Moravia and Austrian Silesia, which is counted among the Austrian nobility due to its hereditary membership in the manor house | |
Wied | since 1103; Line 1159 | Noble counts - 1784 imperial princes | |
Wiedau | 1738-1915 | Extinct Livonian family, 1638 imperial nobility, 1797 enrolled in the Livonian knighthood | |
Wiedersperger von Wiedersperg | since 1309 | original Vogtland nobility who moved to Bohemia, where the family was first elevated to the Bohemian and later to the Austrian baron class | |
Wiehe | 1231-1629 | extinct Thuringian knightly Burgmann family | |
Wieladingen | 13th and 14th centuries | Knight family in the southern Black Forest, Kleinmeier of the Säckingen women's monastery ; were probably from the Lords of stone out | |
Wienskowski | since 1526 | West Prussian noble family | |
Wierzbicki | since 931 | Polish nobility; spread from Pomerania, later West Prussia, over all of Poland with branches in Lithuania, Russia and Volhynia | Different coats of arms |
Wiesenbronn | End of the 12th century until 1394 | extinct, Lower Franconian noble family | - |
Wiesenthau | 1128-1814 | extinct Franconian nobility; 1809 matriculation in Bavaria with the baron class | |
Wietersheim | since around 1500 | originally Westphalian noble family | |
Wigeriche | before 919 to 12th century | one of the oldest attested European noble families | - |
Wild | 14th Century | Saxon noble family | |
Wildberg | 1123-1368 | Franconian noble family | |
Wildenberg (Eifel) | 1235-1328 | Owner of a small estate in the southwest of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Wildenberg (Switzerland) | ? | Noble Swiss noble family from the Vorderrhein Valley in the canton of Graubünden | |
Wildenburg | Mid-1230s to 1418 | extinct Rhenish noble family | - |
Wildenfels | ? | Saxon noble family | |
Wildenstein (Franconian Forest) | since 1318 | Franconian nobility; 1817 matriculation in Bavaria with the baron class; (three other genders of the same name). | |
Wildenstein (Middle Franconia) | since at least the 15th century | Noble family in what is now the Middle Franconian border area. (three other genders of the same name). | |
Wildenstein (Styria) | ? | ancient Styrian noble family | |
Wild counts | 1103-1409 | extinct medieval counts | |
Wildon | 12th to 14th century | Styrian ministerial family; Owner of the hereditary marshal's office and also of the office of chief food | |
Wilhelminer | 9-13 century | Bavarian aristocratic family of the 9th century | - |
Willading | 1710-1824 | Bernese patrician family possibly from Willadingen, which was raised to the nobility in 1710 and expired in 1824 in the male line | |
Willich (1765) | since 1765 | aristocratic family from the Mark Brandenburg | - |
Willich (1786) | since 1786 | aristocratic family from the Mark Brandenburg | - |
Willich (1790) | since 1790 | Bavarian noble family | - |
Willisen | since 1541 | Aristocratic mail from the Wetterau; 1702 Imperial Knighthood; 1863 Prussian approval of the title of baron. | |
Wilmersdorff | 1147 to 1802 | extinct Brandenburg nobility | |
Wilmsdorff | since 1467 | Prussian noble family, since the 18th century also Dutch as von Proebentow van Wilmsdorff | |
Wimpffen | since 1555 | originally from the Württemberg noble family, whose members held high military ranks in the French and Austrian armies | |
From the corner | 1283-2014 | First noble family in Meißen, Anhalt and the Duchy of Magdeburg. | |
Diapers | before 1376-1457 | extinct Westphalian noble family | |
Windheim | since 1750 | Hanoverian city noble family | |
Windisch-Graetz | since 1220 | dynasty named after the rulership in Styria; 1551 imperial baron status; 1557 imperial count; 1804 imperial prince | |
Angle / Winkl | since around 1140 | Ministerial family of the Babenbergs, who were based in Tullnerfeld | |
Winkelhausen | 1271-1739 | Westphalian-Bergisches nobility family | |
Winkler von Mohrenfels | since 1501 | Patrician family from Nuremberg; 1709 Imperial nobility | |
Wins | ? | medieval noble family from Frankfurt (Oder) | - |
Winter from eagle's wing | since 1560 | nobility from the Palatinate; 1681 Imperial nobility | - |
Winter field (t) | since 1286 | Märkisches nobility family, presumably noble-free old Saxon origin; 1671 (first) Danish feudal baron class; 1706 Spanish marquis; 1719 hereditary-Dutch counts; | |
Wintzingerode | since 1209 | Primeval noble family from the Eichsfeld; 1813 Westphalian confirmation of the baron status; 1794 imperial count status | |
Wirsberg | (1203) 1303 | old Franconian noble family | |
Wipe | before 1200 to 19th century | old Holstein noble family, they were closely related to the Pogwisch and Wulf families | |
Wiser | since 1450 | Family originating from Lower Austria; 1500 imperial coat of arms letter; 1577 imperial nobility; May 1702 imperial baron, July 1702 imperial count. | |
Wisner from Morgenstern | 1792 to? | extinct noble family from Agram County, 1792 Hungarian nobility and coat of arms letter, expansion into the Banat and Paraguay | |
Wispeck | since 1167 | old Salzburg noble family | |
Wissmann / Wissmann | since 1787 | Prussian noble family | |
Wistinghausen | since 1640 | German-Baltic noble family; originally from the Detmold area | |
Witkowitz | since 1697 | Noble family from today's Poland; Knighthood in the 18th century; | |
Witowski | since 1192 | Polish-German noble family | |
Witte | since 1816 | Prussian aristocratic family, originally from Pomerania | - |
Wittelsbach | since approx. 1000 | one of the oldest German families, from which the Bavarian and Palatinate rulers emerged for centuries; | |
Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld | since 1145 | Klevian, baronial noble family | |
Smell | since 1143 | Thuringian nobility | |
Wittken | since 1240 (1256) | Pomeranian nobility | |
Wittstatt | 1090-1584 | extinct medieval noble family from Oberwittstadt | |
Witzendorff | since 1290 | Lüneburg nobility; 1639 Imperial nobility with improved coat of arms; 1914 Prussian name and coat of arms association with those of Rehdiger as von Witzendorff-Rehdiger. | |
Joke life | since 1133 | Thuringian nobility; Roter Hof : 1860 Austrian approval of the baron status; Blauer Hof : Westphalian counts in 1813, Prussian counts in 1886. | |
Wnuck | since 1525 | Kashubian noble family from Pomerania; 1817 Prussian diploma for nat. son | |
Wobeser | since 1300 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Woedtke | since 1389 | Pomeranian noble family, a tribe and coat of arms with that of Kleist | |
Woellwarth | since 1136 | Swabian nobility; Barons since the 19th century | |
Woehrmann | ? | Originally a middle-class Lübeck family and the resulting noble family with branches in the Baltic States and Saxony | - |
Wolde | since 1284 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Woldeck | since 1230 | Old Markian nobility | |
Woldenberg | until 1383 | Counts of Lower Saxony | - |
Wolf (Upper Palatinate) | 11th to 15th century | noble, Bavarian noble family (Wolf von Gögglbach, Wolf von Schönleiten and von Wolfsegg, Wolf von Schmidmühlen, Wolf von Nabeck) | |
Wolf (Thuringia) | 1290 to probably the 16th century | Eichsfelder and the Thuringian noble family | |
Wolf of Goddenthow | since 1284 | Pomeranian nobility | |
Wolf of Wolfsthal | 1180-1688 | Extinct noble family from the Steigerwald | |
Wolfenbüttel | 1073-1361 | Extinct old Saxon noble family of noble origin, in the 12th century Counts of Peine, agnates of the nobles and Counts of Schladen, tribal relatives with those of Apenburg, von Asseburg, von Bärwinkel, von Bartensleben, von Winterfeld | |
Wolfershausen | since 1275 | Lower Hessian noble family | |
Wolff | since 1427 | German-Baltic noble family. 1726 the Indigenate of the Livonian Knighthood, 1729 the Indigenate of the Estonian Knighthood. 1747 Elevation to the imperial baron status. | |
Wolff von Gudenberg | since 1301 | Hessian nobility; 1873 imperial baron status | |
Wolff from and to Todenwarth | since 1418 | old Henneberg-Hessian family; 1623 knightly imperial nobility; 1637 confirmation of imperial baron status | |
Wolff-Metternich | since 1301 since 1440 |
old Hessian noble family Rhenish branch line of Wolff von Gudenberg ; 1637 Imperial Barons; 1731 imperial count status |
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Wolf shield | 1646-1771 | Livonian noble family; 1646 Swedish nobility | |
Wolffersdorff | since 1240 | Saxon nobility; Imperial baron class; 1741 hereditary imperial count by Elector Friedrich August III, Duke of Saxony and King of Poland, in the vicariate of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. | |
Wolffradt | since 1647 | Pomeranian noble family; 1647 Swedish nobility, 1772 Swedish barons, 1810 Bonapartian counts | |
Wolffskeel | 1219 | Franconian nobility; 1819 enrolled in the Bavarian barons class; 1901 Bavarian counts | |
Wolframsdorf | 1278 | Vogtland-Meissnian and Thuringian noble families | |
Wolfstein | 1290-1740 | Bavarian-Franconian nobility | |
Wolf harrow | ? | Swabian-Franconian noble family | - |
Wolfurt | 1226 to 15th century | medieval noble family and knighthood | |
Wolkenstein-Rodenegg / Wolkenstein-Trostburg | 1140/47 | Tyrolean nobility with two lines: Rodenegg and Trostburg; Wolkenstein-Trostburg line : 15th century barons, 1630 imperial counts; Wolkenstein-Rodenegg line : 1564 barons, 1628 imperial counts | |
Wool beater | 1408 to? | German-Kashubian noble family, Polish nobility recognition in 1526, Russian nobility legitimation in 1825 | |
Wolzog | since 1393 | Lower Austrian nobility, improvement of the hereditary-Austrian coat of arms in 1588, old Lower Austrian knighthood in 1591, knighthood in 1602 and award of the Neuhaus predicate , 1605 Moravian incolate, 1607 hereditary-Austrian baron, 1702 confirmation of imperial baron | |
Wopersnow | 1385 to the end of the 18th century | extinct Pomeranian nobility, later in Mecklenburg, Denmark, Wallonia and Lorraine, as well as Lower Saxony | |
Worbis | 1209 to the 18th century | Eichsfelder and the Thuringian noble family | |
Chamberlain of Worms | since 11th century | Noble family from the Middle Rhine | |
Woyrsch | since 1417 | Bohemian nobility | |
Wozenitz | since 1330 | extinct, Mecklenburg noble family | |
Wrangel | since 1277 | Baltic nobility; various lines were raised in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to the Swedish and Prussian barons or counts. | |
Wratislaw von Mitrowitz | since 1406 | Primeval nobility of the countries of the Bohemian Crown; 1701 Imperial Counts | |
Wrede | since 1202 | Westphalian nobility; 1653 Swedish barons; 1687 Swedish counts (Finnish line). | |
Wreech | 1278 to? | old Neumark noble family | |
Wrisberg | since 1355 | Lower Saxon noble family | |
Wróblewski | Polish noble family from Mazovia; 1772 Prussian nobility | ||
Wrochem | since 1379 | Silesian nobility; | |
Wulffen | 1156; 1220; 1407 | three different noble families from Anhalt-Magdeburg, Brandenburg and Halberstadt. The Halberstadt family was accepted into the baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1813. | Anhalt-Magdeburg Brandenburg |
Würben / Wrbna u. Freudenthal | since 1214 | Silesian-Bohemian-Moravian noble family; Barons, state count in 1624. Since the beginning of the 19th century it has been called Wrbna u. Freudenthal | |
Wurmb | since 1173 | Thuringian-Saxon nobility | |
Wormbrand Stuppach | since 1194 | Lower Austrian nobility; 1607 Lower Austrian gentry; 1607 hereditary-Austrian baron class; 1682 counts | |
Wormlings | since 1120 | Swabian nobility; | |
Württemberg | since 1080 | old dynasty of counts; 1495 imperial princes; Electors; Dukes | |
Würtzburg | 1137-1922 | extinct Franconian nobility; 1812 Enrollment in the baron class in Bavaria. | |
Wussow (Western Pomerania) | 1262-1804 | Pre-Pomeranian nobility | |
Wussow (Western Pomerania) | since 1277 | Old Pomeranian noble family | |
Wüstenhoff | 15th century to 1897 | Magdeburg family, spread to Westphalia and East Prussia | |
Wuthenau | since 1273 | Märkischer Uradel; 1721 Imperial barons and imperial counts. | |
Wylich including Wylich and Lottum | since 1158 | Nobility from the county of Kleve; 1608 Austrian barons, 1701 imperial count for the Gribbbenvorst line; 1654 Imperial Barons for the Diersfordt line | |
Wyttenbach | since 1158 | Originally from Biel, the patrician family from Bern, who had been a citizen of the city of Bern since 1586 (branch with the sloping stream in the coat of arms) and 1623 (branch with the straight stream in the coat of arms); 1511 letter of nobility from Emperor Maximilian |