List of German noble families / W

W.

Surname	Period	Remarks	coat of arms
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
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
Weitzel-Mudersbach	since 1553	Originally resident in Hessen, the Prussian noble family
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	-
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
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