Hereditary Knights
- Alewijn
- De Behr (extinct 1954)
- De Bye (also: Van der Does de Bye)
- Van Citters
- Van Cleef
- Von Devivere
- Du Bus (extinct 1976)
- Van Els (extinct 18th century)
- Van der Heim (extinct 1898)
- Huyssen van Kattendijke
- Van Lockhorst (extinct 1921)
- De Maurissens
- Pauw
- De Plevits
- Van Rappard (nl)
- Van der Renne (extinct 1964)
- Van Rij
- Van Rosenthal (nl)
- Van Scheintzbern
- De van der Schueren
- De Stuers
- De Thier
- Velu
- De Warzée d'Hermalle (extinct 1933)
- Van Westreenen van Tiellandt (extinct 1848)
Read more about this topic: List Of Dutch Noble Families
Famous quotes containing the words hereditary and/or knights:
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
Poor knights they are which bravely wait
The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
Keeping a simple Roman state,
Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)