customs in the German-speaking area, until the beginning of the 20th century. Historically, German entities that recognized or conferred nobility included the...

The Baltic German nobility was a privileged social class in the territories of modern-day Estonia and Latvia. It existed continuously from the Northern...

fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility), as both countries were previously part of...

The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a...

Finnish nobility French nobility German nobility Freiherr Graf Junker Hungarian nobility Icelandic nobility Irish nobility Italian nobility Black Nobility Lithuanian...

Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...

(Hungarian nobility) Reventlow (Danish/German nobility) Stolberg (German nobility) Tolstoy (Russian nobility) von Trampe (German nobility) Barons von...

1945. Following Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication and the German Revolution, all German nobility as a legally defined class was abolished. On promulgation...

The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping...

name does not negatively affect the well-being of the child. Among German nobility, a fashion arose in the early modern period[citation needed] to give...