The German nobility (German: Adel) was the elite hereditary ruling class or aristocratic class from ca. 500 B.C. to the Holy Roman Empire and what is now Germany.
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Swedish Noble Families - Unintroduced Nobility - Comital Families
... Crapon de Caprona Fouché d'Otrante (Napoleonic nobility) von der Groeben (German nobility) von Hallwyl (Swiss nobility) Joussineau de Tourdonnet (French nobility ...
... Crapon de Caprona Fouché d'Otrante (Napoleonic nobility) von der Groeben (German nobility) von Hallwyl (Swiss nobility) Joussineau de Tourdonnet (French nobility ...
German Nobility - Titles and Ranks - Non-reigning Titles
... sovereign families and for non-sovereign families Title (English) Title (German) Crown Prince(ss) Kronprinz(essin) Electoral Prince Kurprinz(essin) Grand Duke/Grand Duchess Großherzog(in) Grand Prince(ss ...
... sovereign families and for non-sovereign families Title (English) Title (German) Crown Prince(ss) Kronprinz(essin) Electoral Prince Kurprinz(essin) Grand Duke/Grand Duchess Großherzog(in) Grand Prince(ss ...
History Of Germans In Russia And The Soviet Union - Germans in The Baltics
... Main article Baltic German The German presence on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea dates back to the Middle Ages when traders and missionaries started arriving from ... The German-speaking Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquered most of what is now Estonia and Latvia (the former Livonia) in the early 13th century ... Order solidified into a regime of mostly German-speaking nobility ruling over indigenous peasants ...
... Main article Baltic German The German presence on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea dates back to the Middle Ages when traders and missionaries started arriving from ... The German-speaking Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquered most of what is now Estonia and Latvia (the former Livonia) in the early 13th century ... Order solidified into a regime of mostly German-speaking nobility ruling over indigenous peasants ...
Livonian Confederation - History - Livonian Civil Wars
... the lands by the Church, the order, the secular nobles of German descent who ruled the fiefs and the citizens of the Hanseatic town of Riga ... most important ally of the Livonian Order was the German nobility in the Danish Duchy of Estonia ... of the 14th century Denmark was no longer a powerful state and the local German nobility had effectively become the rulers of the territory ...
... the lands by the Church, the order, the secular nobles of German descent who ruled the fiefs and the citizens of the Hanseatic town of Riga ... most important ally of the Livonian Order was the German nobility in the Danish Duchy of Estonia ... of the 14th century Denmark was no longer a powerful state and the local German nobility had effectively become the rulers of the territory ...
Famous quotes containing the words nobility and/or german:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)