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Austrian nobility

Index Austrian nobility

The Austrian nobility (österreichischer Adel) is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary. [1]

102 relations: A. de Herz, Abolition of monarchy, Adlerhorst, Alfred von Waldstätten, Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein, Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms, Archduke Géza of Austria, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austria-Hungary, Baron Rothschild, Bernhard von Eskeles, Briefadel, Charles de Worms, Charles von Hügel, Christian Social Party (Austria), Clary und Aldringen, Clothing fetish, Constantin Isopescu-Grecul, Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen, Dominic von Habsburg, Dorothea de Ficquelmont, Eggenberg family, Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505), Emil Vojnović, Emperor of Austria, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, False titles of nobility, Fenrich, Ferdinand de Rothschild, Ferdinand Troyer, Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg, Franz, Count of Meran, Freyung, Vienna, Genealogy of the Rothschild family, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Georg von Habsburg, Georg von Trapp, George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms, George Khevenhüller, German General Staff, German nobility, Giovanni Pietro de Pomis, Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, Graf, Grand Hotel Wien, Grigore Cugler, Guy de Rothschild, Hartig, Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright, Herrengasse, ..., Hochgeboren, Hohenberg family, Holy Roman Empire, Index of Austria-related articles, Johann Philipp von Lamberg, John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe, Joseph Aschbach, Jovan Tekelija, Julius von Payer, Karl von Habsburg, Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg, Khuen von Belasi, Leca of Cătun, Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna, Leopold von Mildenstein, List of barons of Austria-Hungary, List of counts of Austria-Hungary, List of princes of Austria-Hungary, List of untitled nobility of Austria-Hungary, Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1895, Manndorff zu Pfannhofen und Wissenau, Marcel Prawy, Marianne Faithfull, Matthias von Schönerer, Matuschka (surname), Michaela von Habsburg, Military Order of Maria Theresa, Minoritenplatz, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Nobility, Nora Waldstätten, Orsini-Rosenberg, Passion (musical), Percy de Worms, Philipp Schey von Koromla, Pranckh, Principality of Auersperg, Reylander, Rosina von Graben von Rain, Rothschild banking family of Austria, Rothschild family, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Siegmund von Pranckh, Starhemberg, Sypniewski, Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, Thun und Hohenstein, Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel, Vincenz Liechtenstein, Von, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. Expand index (52 more) »

A. de Herz

Adolf Edmund George de Herz, commonly shortened to A. de Herz, also rendered as Hertz and Herț (December 15, 1887 – March 9, 1936), was a Romanian playwright and literary journalist, also active as a poet, short story author, and stage actor.

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Abolition of monarchy

The abolition of monarchy involves the ending of monarchical elements in the government of a country.

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Adlerhorst

Adlerhorst (Eagle's eyrie) was a World War II bunker complex in Germany, located in the rural area of Langenhain-Ziegenberg, Wiesental Wetterau and Kransberg in the Taunus mountains in the state of Hesse.

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Alfred von Waldstätten

Alfred Georg Freiherr von Waldstätten (9 November 1872, Vienna — 12 January 1952, Mauerbach) was an Austro-Hungarian Army officer holding the rank of Generalmajor (major general) who served during World War I. He held senior positions on the Armeeoberkommando (General Staff) and possessed significant influence over the Chief of General Staff, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, and Emperor Karl.

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Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein

Prince Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein, (Alois Fürst von Schönburg-Hartenstein) (November 21, 1858 – September 21, 1944) was a military officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and as a Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein, a member of the Austrian nobility.

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Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms

Baron Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms (4 January 1869 – 11 January 1938) was an Austrian aristocrat (by courtesy) and an English philatelist.

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Archduke Géza of Austria

Archduke Géza of Austria (given names: Géza Ladislaus Euseb Gerhard Rafael Albert Maria; born 14 November 1940, in Budapest), in Austria and Hungary only known by law as Géza Habsburg-Lothringen, is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria (1895–1957) and his wife Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) thus he is a grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and great-great grandson (on his father's mother's side) of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sissi).

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Arthur Arz von Straußenburg

Generaloberst Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straußenburg (16 June 1857 – 1 July 1935) was an Austro-Hungarian Colonel General and last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.

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Baron Rothschild

Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertfordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Bernhard von Eskeles

Bernhard, Knight and Baron von Eskeles (BernhardRitter und Freiherr von Eskeles) (12 February 1753, Vienna – 7 August 1839, Hietzing (near Vienna, now Vienna)) was an Austrian-Jewish banker/financier and Court Jew.

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Briefadel

Briefadel (in German) or brevadel (in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) are persons and families who have been ennobled by letters patent.

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Charles de Worms

Baron Charles George Maurice de Worms (1903–1979) was an English chemist and lepidopterist.

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Charles von Hügel

Charles von Hügel (born Carl Alexander Anselm Baron von Hügel; 25 April 1795 – 2 June 1870) was an Austrian noble, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer, now primarily remembered for his travels in northern India during the 1830s.

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Christian Social Party (Austria)

The Christian Social Party (Christlichsoziale Partei, CS) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and in the First Republic of Austria, from 1891 to 1934.

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Clary und Aldringen

Clary und Aldringen, also known as Clary-Aldringen, is one of the most prominent Austro-Hungarian princely families.

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Clothing fetish

Clothing fetishism or garment fetishism is a sexual fetish that revolves around a fixation upon a particular article or type of clothing, a collection of garments that appear as part of a fashion or uniform, or a person dressed in such a garment.

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Constantin Isopescu-Grecul

Constantin Ritter von Isopescu-Grecul (or cavaler de Isopescu-Grecul; first name also Konstantin, last name also Isopescul-Grecul, Isopescu Grecu; Константин Ісопискуль-Грекуль; 1871–1938) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian jurist, politician, and journalist.

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Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen

Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (30 May 1852 Palais Mollard-Clary, Vienna – 12 February 1928 Castle Herrnau, Salzburg) was an Austro-Hungarian nobleman and statesman.

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Dominic von Habsburg

Dominic Habsburg-Lothringen, also known as Dominic von Habsburg (born 4 July 1937, Sonnberg, Lower Austria) is a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, also known by his ancestral titles as Archduke Dominic of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany.

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Dorothea de Ficquelmont

Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (14 October 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen (Daria Fyodorovna in Russian), was a Russian writer and salonist.

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Eggenberg family

Eggenberg was the name of an Austrian noble family from Styria, who achieved princely rank in the 17th century.

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Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505)

Elizabeth of Austria (Elisabeth, Elżbieta Rakuszanka; Elžbieta Habsburgaitė; c. 1436 – 30 August 1505) was the wife of King Casimir IV of PolandBrzezińska (1999), p. 190 and thus Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania.

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Emil Vojnović

Emil Vojnović von Belobreska (also Emil Woinovich; 23 April 1851 – 13 February 1927) was an Austro-Hungarian Army general and historian from the Military Frontier who until 1915 was the director of the War Archives in Vienna.

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Emperor of Austria

The Emperor of Austria (German: Kaiser von Österreich) was the ruler of the Austrian Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg

Ernst Rüdiger Camillo Starhemberg (Eferding, 10 May 1899 – Schruns, 15 March 1956; His Serene Highness Ernst Rüdiger Camillo 6. Fürst von Starhemberg until the 1919 abolition of nobility) was an Austrian nationalist and conservative politician prior to World War II, a leader of the Heimwehr and later of the Christian Social Party/Fatherland Front.

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False titles of nobility

False titles of nobility are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without recognition by the current or past government of a country in which titles of nobility exist or once existed.

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Fenrich

Fenrich (IPA, alternative spellings: Fendrich, Fenrick, sometimes with preposition von) was an Austrian lower nobility family of German origin, a branch of the House of Fenner (Venner, Venour).

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Ferdinand de Rothschild

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, the style he used in Britain, or Ferdinand James Anselm, Freiherr von Rothschild (17 December 1839 – 17 December 1898) was a French-born, Austrian-turned British and Jewish banker, art collector, and politician, who was a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers.

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Ferdinand Troyer

Count Ferdinand Troyer (February 1, 1780 – July 23, 1851) was an Austrian noble, philanthropist, and amateur clarinettist.

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Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg

Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg,The Habsburgs' titles are not recognised anymore in Austria or in Hungary.

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Franz, Count of Meran

Franz Ludwig Johann Baptist Count von Meran, Baron von Brandhofen (b. 11 March 1839 in Vienna; d. 27 March 1891 in Opatija) was an Austrian nobleman and Viennese courtier.

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Freyung, Vienna

The Freyung is a triangular public square in Vienna, located in the Innere Stadt first district of the city.

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Genealogy of the Rothschild family

The Rothschild family is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century.

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Georg Ritter von Schönerer

Georg Ritter von Schönerer (17 July 1842 – 14 August 1921) was an Austrian landowner and politician of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Georg von Habsburg

Georg von HabsburgThe Habsburgs' titles are not recognised anymore in Austria or in Hungary, where he is referred to as Georg Habsburg-Lothringen, which is his legal name (see Austrian nobility and Statute IV of 1947 regarding the abolition of certain titles and ranks (Hungary)).

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Georg von Trapp

Corvette Captain Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947), was an Austro-Hungarian Navy officer.

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George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms

George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms (1829–1902) was an Austrian aristocrat (by courtesy), and an English public official and banker.

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George Khevenhüller

Georg von Khevenhüller (also spelled as Gjuro or George Khevenhiller; 22 April 1533 – 9 September 1587) was a Carinthian nobleman of the Khevenhüller dynasty.

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German General Staff

The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially Great General Staff (Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.

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German nobility

The German nobility (deutscher Adel) and royalty were status groups which until 1919 enjoyed certain privileges relative to other people under the laws and customs in the German-speaking area.

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Giovanni Pietro de Pomis

Giovanni Pietro de Pomis (ca.1565 or 1569/70 – 6 March 1633) was an Italian painter, medailleur, architect and fortress master builder.

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Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield

Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (6 February 1890 – 23 September 1986) was the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War.

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Graf

Graf (male) or Gräfin (female) is a historical title of the German nobility, usually translated as "count".

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Grand Hotel Wien

The Grand Hotel Wien is a five-star luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria.

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Grigore Cugler

Grigore Cugler (Gregorio or Gregori Cugler; also known under the pen name Apunake; – September 30, 1972) was a Romanian avant-garde short story writer, poet and humorist.

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Guy de Rothschild

Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (21 May 1909 – 12 June 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family.

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Hartig

Hartig is a German surname.

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Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS (20 October 1840 – 9 January 1903), known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.

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Herrengasse

The Herrengasse (meaning in German language: "Street of the Lords" or "Lords Lane") is a street in Vienna, located in the first district Innere Stadt.

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Hochgeboren

Hochgeboren ("high-born"; illustrissimus)) is a form of address for the titled members of the German and Austrian nobility, ranking just below the sovereign and mediatised dynasties. The actual address is "Euer" Hochgeboren. It is the proper form of address for counts (Grafen) that are neither heirs to mediatised families of the Holy Roman Empire (counts of the Holy Roman Empire or Reichsgrafen) nor families who have been bequeathed higher predicate by the Emperor. By courtesy, barons (Freiherr) belonging to old houses of the Uradel are also addressed in the same way. The correct term for immediate counts (Reichsgrafen) is Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness"), while the proper form of address for princes (Fürsten) and dukes (Herzöge) is Durchlaucht ("Serene Highness"). In The Netherlands Hooggeboren (High-born) is used to address Dukes, Margraves, Counts or Viscounts.

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Hohenberg family

Hohenberg is an Austrian noble family that descends from Countess Sophie Chotek (1868–1914), who in 1900 married Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863–1914), the heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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Index of Austria-related articles

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Austria include.

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Johann Philipp von Lamberg

Cardinal Johann Philipp ''Graf'' von Lamberg Johann Philipp Cardinal Count von Lamberg (born May 25, 1651 in Vienna; died October 30, 1712 in Regensburg), was bishop of Passau, a Cardinal and diplomat in the service of the Habsburg emperors.

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John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe

Commander John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe, 6th Baron Fremantle, (22 January 1927 – 21 May 2018) was a British baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman.

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Joseph Aschbach

Joseph Aschbach (29 April 1801 – 25 April 1882) was a German historian who studied the Visigoths, writing "Geschichte der Westgoten" ("History of the Visigoths") in 1827.

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Jovan Tekelija

Jovan Popović Tekelija (1660s — 1721 or 1722) was 17th and 18th-century Austrian nobleman and military officer.

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Julius von Payer

Julius Johannes Ludovicus Payer (2 September 1841, – 29 August 1915), ennobled Ritter von Payer in 1876, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, mountaineer, arctic explorer, cartographer, painter, and professor at the Theresian Military Academy.

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Karl von Habsburg

Karl von Habsburg (Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam; born 11 January 1961), also known as Karl of Austria and referred to by his ancestral titles as Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, is an Austrian politician, the current head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine which ruled the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Empire of Austria, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and the Kingdom of Hungary as well as the Crown lands of Bohemia and Croatia by hereditary right until the end of World War I. Born in Starnberg, Germany, in 1961, he is the son of Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and the grandson of the last Austrian emperor, Charles I. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People's Party 1996–1999.

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Karl-Konstantin von Habsburg

Karl-Konstantin von HabsburgThe Habsburg's titles are not recognised anymore in Austria or in Hungary, where he is referred to as Karl-Konstantin Habsburg-Lothringen, which is his legal name.

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Khuen von Belasi

Khuen von Belasi (originally Khuen, Khuon, Khun is the name of an Austrian noble family of the county of Tyrol. The family starts late 13th century with Egon or Egino de Tramino ("dem Kühnen", meaning "the keen"). On 13 June 1542, Blasius Khuen became "Regimentsrat" of lower Austria and also geheimer Rat to the Emperor of Austria. From 1560 to 1568, he became upper Austrian chamberlain. In 1573, Rudolf Khuen was titled Belasy von Gandeck, also Liechtenberg and Aur, Freiherr zu Neu-Lembach. Rudolf Khuen bought the county Gandegg in 1557.

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Leca of Cătun

Leca or Lecca of Cătun, also known as Leca of Leurdeni, Comisul Leca, or Postelnico Leka (? – February or March 1616), was a Wallachian political figure, prominent under Princes Michael the Brave, Radu Șerban, and Radu Mihnea.

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Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna

D. Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna, 8th Countess of Assumar (31 October 1750 – 11 October 1839) was a Portuguese noblewoman, painter, and poet.

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Leopold von Mildenstein

Leopold Itz, Edler von Mildenstein (30 November 1902 – November 1968) was an SS officer of the 1930s and 1940s who is remembered as a leader of the Nazi Party's support during the 1930s for some of the aims of Zionism.

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List of barons of Austria-Hungary

This page lists baronial families in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whether extant or extinct.

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List of counts of Austria-Hungary

This page lists comital families in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whether extant or extinct.

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List of princes of Austria-Hungary

This page lists princely families in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whether extant or extinct.

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List of untitled nobility of Austria-Hungary

This page lists untitled noble families, or whose title is unclear, in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whether extant or extinct.

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Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1895

The Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1895 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 29 November 1895 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool East Toxteth.

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Manndorff zu Pfannhofen und Wissenau

von und zu Manndorff zu Pfannhofen und Wissenau are an Austrian nobility family, more specifically the Uradel (old nobility).

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Marcel Prawy

Marcel Prawy (birth name: Marcel Horace Frydmann, Ritter von Prawy) (born 29 December 1911, in Vienna – died 23 February 2003, in Vienna) was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic.

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Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.

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Matthias von Schönerer

Mathias Ritter von Schönerer (9 January 1807, Vienna – 30 October 1881, Vienna) was one of the most important railway pioneers in Austria.

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Matuschka (surname)

Matuschka (German-language spelling), Matuška (Czech language spelling), Matúška (Slovak language spelling), or Matuska (Hungarian-language spelling) is a surname of Austrian nobility of Slavic language origin.

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Michaela von Habsburg

Michaela von Habsburg (Michaela Maria Madeleine Kiliana Habsburg-Lothringen) was born 13 September 1954, in Würzburg.

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Military Order of Maria Theresa

The Military Order of Maria Theresa (Militär-Maria-Theresien-Orden, Katonai Mária Terézia-rend, Vojenský řád Marie Terezie, Wojskowy Order Marii Teresy, Vojaški red Marije Terezije, Vojni Red Marije Terezije was the highest military honour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Minoritenplatz

The Minoritenplatz is one of the oldest public squares in Vienna.

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Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 – 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major figure of 18th century Protestantism.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Nora Waldstätten

Nora von Waldstätten (born Nora Marie-Theres Beatrice Elisabeth Freiin von Waldstätten) (born 1981) is an Austrian actress.

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Orsini-Rosenberg

Orsini-Rosenberg (also Ursin-Rosenberg) is the name of an old Austrian noble family.

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Passion (musical)

Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine.

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Percy de Worms

Percy George de Worms (3 November 1873 – 2 April 1941) was an English aristocrat and philatelist.

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Philipp Schey von Koromla

Philipp Schey Freiherr von Koromla (20 September 1798 – 26 June 1881) was an Austrian-Hungarian merchant and philanthropist.

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Pranckh

Pranckh is the name of an ancient Austrian noble family, descending from Pranckh Castle, near Sankt Marein bei Knittelfeld in the former March and later Duchy of Styria.

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Principality of Auersperg

The House of Auersperg (Auerspergi or Turjaški) is an Austrian noble family with its roots in Carniola (present-day Slovenia).

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Reylander

Reylander is a surname of Austrian origin and sometimes used as von Reylander as part of the Austrian nobility, normally used the title Baron until the nobility was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary.

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Rosina von Graben von Rain

Rosina von Graben von Rain (died 1534 (?)), also called Rosina von Rain, was an Austrian noble woman, a member of the Graben von Stein family and heiress of the burgraviate of Sommeregg Castle in Carinthia.

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Rothschild banking family of Austria

The Rothschild banking family of Austria was founded by banker Salomon Mayer von Rothschild in 1820 in Vienna in what was then the Austrian Empire.

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Rothschild family

The Rothschild family is a wealthy Jewish family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established themselves in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. During the 19th century, the Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the world, as well as the largest private fortune in modern world history.The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798–1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999, page 481-85The Secret Life of the Jazz Baroness, from The Times 11 April 2009, Rosie Boycott The family's wealth was divided among various descendants, and today their interests cover a diverse range of fields, including financial services, real estate, mining, energy, mixed farming, winemaking and nonprofits.The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty, By Frederic Morton, page 11 The Rothschild family has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories, many of which have antisemitic origins.

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Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten

Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten (26 April 1861 – 12 May 1921) was a Colonel-General in the Austro-Hungarian army and served as the last Imperial Minister for War not only to the Austro-Hungarian Empire but to the ancient Habsburg monarchy which sat at its head.

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Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (9 September 1774 – 28 July 1855) was a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Austrian branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family.

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Siegmund von Pranckh

Siegmund Freiherr von Pranckh (5 December 1821, Altötting, Upper Bavaria – May 8, 1888, Munich), descendant of the ancient Austrian noble family Pranckh, originally residentiary in the former March and later Duchy of Styria, was a Bavarian general and Minister of War.

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Starhemberg

---- Starhemberg is the name of an old Austrian noble family originating from Upper Austria, specifically Steyr and Steinbach.

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Sypniewski

The surname Sypniewski is of Polish origin and centered on the Oder region where families bearing this surname are still found today.

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Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski

Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski (19 May 1866 – 18 October 1928) was a Polish military commander, diplomat, and politician, a general of the Austro-Hungarian Army and then the Polish Army.

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Thun und Hohenstein

The Thun und Hohenstein family, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Bohemian and Austrian nobility.

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Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel

Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel (May 10, 1857 – April 17, 1938) was a Colonel General in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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Vincenz Liechtenstein

Vincenz Liechtenstein (30 July 1950 in Graz – 14 January 2008 in Deutschfeistritz, Styria) was an Austrian politician (ÖVP).

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Von

Von is a term used in German language surnames either as a nobiliary particle indicating a noble patrilineality or as a simple preposition that approximately means of or from in the case of commoners.

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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and scion of the Rothschild family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_nobility

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