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Surname	Headquarters	was standing	Notes on history and distribution	Membership in aristocratic associations, alliances or registers	Links to relevant picture galleries	coat of arms
Gift from Landeck	Landegg Castle near Magdenau in Toggenburg	Rapperswilische Ministeriale, Sanktgallische inheritance gifts	in the 15th century as saint Gallic feudal people on Neuravensburg ; Konrad Schenk von Landeck			Scheibler
Landenberg	Alt-Landenberg Breitenlandenberg Hohenlandenberg Hohenschramberg	Men's		Leitbracken		Scheibler
Landenberg from Greifensee	Greifensee Castle			Leitbracken
Langenegg	Langenegg Castle near Waltenhofen	Gentlemen patricians (not in direct line, but by purchase)	Named after the castle. Extinct in 1415. Then came to the Lords of Rauns zu Langenegg through the heiress. After it died out, it was sold by the heirs in 1513 to the patrician Winter from Kempten, by marriage. From then on, this was called von Langenegg. In 1647 it fell to the Kempten Abbey as a settled fief.			Sieve maker
Lanz von Liebenfels	Constancy	Nobility since around 1470	Liebenfels (until 1574), Gündelhart (until 1622), Beerenberg (He, 17th century – 1727), Worblingen (He, from 1706), part of Gailingen (He, from 1734/36), Beuren an der Aach (He, from 1767)	Canton of Hegau		Sieve maker
Laubenberg	Alt-Laubenberg Castle near Grünenbach , Laubenbergerstein Castle , later Rauhenzell Castle near Immenstadt	Men's	abstract	Leitbracken Swabian Federation	Hans Caspar von Laubenberg (1452–1522), counselor and chief military officer of Maximilian I. More pictures here	Scheibler Siebmacher
Mountain of glue	Mountain of glue	help stone ministerials	mentioned in 1324, extinct in 1466; Niederstotzingen (1401 – approx. 1446), Burgberg (1442–1459)	Leitbracken		Scheibler
Leinstetten	Leinstetten Castle			Leitbracken		Scheibler
Leutrum von Ertingen	Ertingen Castle	Imperial Knights Barons		Sankt Jörgenschild part on the Neckar (1488) Swabian Confederation Canton Neckar (from 1548 to 1805), Canton Kocher (1723–1776, because of Filseck)	Franziska von Hohenheim more pictures here	Sieve maker
Lichtenberg	Lichtenberg Castle	Men's	Mentioned for the first time in 1197 , Großbottwar founded in the 13th century and sold their rule in 1357 to Württemberg Hermann II. Hummel von Lichtenberg , Chancellor Ludwig of Bavaria	Leitbracken	Lichtenberg Castle	Ingeram Codex
Lichtenberg	Lichtenberg Castle (Alsace)	Noble Free	Male line extinct in 1480	Leitbracken		Ingeram Codex
Lichteneck	Lichteneck	teckish and aichelberg ministerials	Lines Neidlingen, Lichteneck (expired 1469), Randeck (expired 1480)	Leitbracken		Scheibler
Lichtenstein	Lichtenstein near Honau, Lichtenstein near Neufra		Extinguished in 1687	Leitbracken		Ingeram Codex
Love stone	Liebenstein Castle	Imperial Knights Barons	First mentioned in 1283	Canton Kocher (with Jebenhausen , Eschenbach , later abandoned, Liebenstein, Schlat , Steinbach, Bönigheim) Canton Neckar (with half of Köngen ) Canton Danube (until 1782 with Buttenhausen )	Liebenstein Castle more pictures here	Sieve maker
Liesch (from Hornau)	Horb am Neckar , Hornau Castle gone			Canton Neckar-Black Forest (1581–1604)		Sieve maker
Lierheim	Lierheim		in the 16th century Ganerbe zu Bönnigheim	Leitbracken		Ingeram Codex
Gifting from Limpurg	Limpurg Castle			Leitbracken		Ingeram Codex
Lomersheim	Lomersheim	Noble Free	extinguished in 1645	Leitbracken		Ingeram Codex
Lion's Arch	Schenkenberg Castle, Aargau Löwenstein Castle	Count	In the 12th century, the two branch lines Calw- Löwenstein and Calw- Vaihingen split off from the Counts of Calw . The three lines died out in the 13th century. The second line followed with Albrecht von Schenkenberg (1250–1304), oo Luitgard von Bolanden, son of Rudolf I von Habsburg, King of the Holy Roman Empire, owner of Schenkenberg Castle , Aargau, Switzerland (old coat of arms: half, soaring eagle over rafters, new coat of arms: striding lion on Dreiberg) The county of Löwenstein remained in the possession of this family until 1436 with the right until the death of Georg von Löwenstein (painting of the founder with coat of arms Kalvarienberg by Hans Pleydenwurff , died 1464), Canon in Bamberg, to hold all parts of the county. The ancestors of today's Löwenstein-Wertheim family go back to Count Ludwig von Löwenstein (1463–1524).		Council meeting of Count Eberhard des Mild von Württemberg (ruled 1392–1417) with Heinrich, Count von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg (* 1378 / 79-1443) No. 17 more pictures here	Siebmacher, coat of arms of the Löwenstein-Wertheimers
Counts of Lupfen				Leitbracken	Council meeting of Count Eberhard des Mild von Württemberg (ruled 1392–1417) Junker von Lupfen No. 18 more pictures here	Scheibler

Swabian noble families  A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z Uncertain assignment

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In most cases, coats of arms were chosen from Scheibler's book of arms (older part 1450-1480) or from Siebmacher's book of arms (1605). Both heraldic books use the term Swabia in their sorting.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Otto von Alberti: Württembergisches Adels- und Wappenbuch . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1889–1916
3. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden Gender Book , Volume 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 431  
4. ^ Konrad Burdach:  Schenk von Landeck, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 58-61.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Ingeram Codex: Society in the Leitbracken of Swabia
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
7. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden Gender Book , Volume 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 461f and P. 505ff  
8. ↑ Der Landkreis Konstanz , Volume IV, ISBN 3-7995-6184-6 , descriptions of places
9. ↑ ^{a b} The Society of Sankt Jörgenschild joined the Swabian Federation in 1488 at the beginning of the first unification period . In the later unification periods, not all lower nobility genders were represented
10. ^ OAB Geislingen, p. 203
11. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden Gender Book , Volume 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 492ff  
12. ↑ OAB Kirchheim, pp. 196f, 212
13. ↑ Dieter Hellstern: Der Ritterkanton Neckar-Schwarzwald , p. 208