List of Dutch noble families

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Template:Short description Dutch nobility is regulated by act of law in the Wet op de adeldom (Law Regarding Nobility, passed into law on May 10, 1994) and is overseen by the Template:Interlanguage link multi (High Council of Nobility), an official state institution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Before 1814, the history of nobility was separate for each of the Dutch provinces. In the Early Middle Ages, there were, in each province, a number of feudal lords who often were just as powerful, and sometimes more so, than the rulers themselves. In old times, no title other than knight existed.

In the middle of the fourteenth century, quarrels between the feudal lords reduced many families and castles to ruins, contributing to the Dukes of Burgundys' acquisition by conquest or inheritance of many of the provinces forming the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In 1581, representatives of the Seven Provinces abjured Philip II of Spain, heir of the Dukes of Burgundy. This left a great part of the executive and legislative power to the Ridderschap (knightly estate) of each province, which consisted of the representatives of those families of the old feudal nobility.

In 1795, the Batavian Revolution did away with their power, and it was not before 1813, when William I became King of the Netherlands, that they were again given power in another form. Still, by the time of the constitution of 1848, they had no influence in government affairs.

In 1813, if no higher title was recognised, the men only were to bear the hereditary predicate of Jonkheer. Some old feudal families obtained or assumed the title of Baron or Baroness for all their descendants.

Older nobility, having been granted their titles by either the Holy Roman Emperors or French Kings long before 1813, held their pre-existent titles, some of which were confirmed in the new Kingdom of the Netherlands (such as the families Bentinck, Limburg Stirum and Van Rechteren). In some of these families it is more usual that only the oldest male descendant bears the family title while other descendants bear the predicate of Jonkheer (m) or Jonkvrouw (f).

Princes/Princesses

Dukes/Duchesses

The title Duke/Duchess (Hertog in Dutch) is no longer in existence in noble families of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in this day and age.

Marquises/Marquesses

Counts/Countesses

Viscounts/Viscountesses

  • Van Binnenmaas; The title (Dutch: Burggraaf) belongs to the family of the Marquess van Eeden, and is bestowed upon the eldest male heir. They also bear the titles of Count (Dutch: Graaf) van Mijnsheerenland and in Belgium Baron van Moerkerken-Damme.
  • Template:Interlanguage link multi (Viscount of Nieuport)
  • Du Bus
  • Roest van Alkemade

Barons/Baronesses

File:Boetzelaer.jpg
Coat of arms van den Boetzelaer
File:Taets van Amerongen wapen.svg
Coat of arms Taets van Amerongen

Hereditary knights/Jonkvrouwen

  • De Behr (extinct 1954)
  • De Bye (also: Van der Does de Bye)
  • Van Citters
  • Von Devivere
  • Du Bus (extinct 1976)
  • Van der Heim (extinct 1898)
  • Huyssen van Kattendijke
  • Van Lockhorst (extinct 1921)
  • De Maurissens
  • Pauw
  • De Plevits
  • Template:Interlanguage link multi
  • Van der Renne (extinct 1964)
  • Van Rosenthal
  • De van der Schueren
  • De Stuers
  • De Thier
  • Van Westreenen van Tiellandt (extinct 1848)

Jonkheren/Jonkvrouwen

Jonkheer/Jonkvrouw

  • Alberda van Ekenstein
  • Van Oranje-Nassau van Amsberg; members of this family are Count of Oranje-Nassau as well Jonkheer van Amsberg File:Arms of the children of Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg
  • Van Andringa de Kempenaer
  • Van Asch van Wijck
  • Van Baerdt van Sminia
  • Von Balluseck
  • Barnaart
  • Barnaart van Bergen
  • De Beaufort File:De Baeufort wapen 1868.svg
  • Beelaerts van Blokland
  • Van Beijma
  • Van Beijma thoe Kingma
  • Van Benthem van den Bergh / Van den Berch van Heemstede
  • Van Beresteyn
  • Van den Bergh
  • Backer
  • De Beaufort / Godin de Beaufort
  • Den Beer Poortugael
  • Bicker File:Bicker groot wapen.svg
  • Bloys van Treslong
  • Boddaert
  • Boogaert / Van Adrichem Boogaert
  • Boreel
  • Van den Bosch
  • Bosch van Drakestein
  • De Bosch Kemper
  • Von Bose
  • Bowier
  • nl:Van den Brandeler
  • De Brauw
  • Von Chrismar File:Von Chrismar wapen.svg
  • Calkoen
  • Changuion
  • Van Citters
  • Dedel
  • Van der Does
  • Van der Does de Willebois
  • Van Doorn
  • Elias
  • Van den Eynde
  • Van Eys
  • Van Eysinga
  • Feith
  • Flugi van Aspermont
  • Van Foreest
  • Van Geen
  • De Geer / Van Lintelo de Geer
  • Von Geusau / Alting van Geusau / Valckenier von Geusau
  • Gevaerts
  • Gevers / Gevers Deynoot / Gevers van Endegeest / Gevers Leuven
  • Von Ghycze
  • De Girard de Mielet van Coehoorn
  • Van der Goes / Van der Goes van Naters
  • Goldman
  • Graafland / Hooft Graafland / Hooft Graafland van Schotervlieland
  • De Graeff File:De Graeff wapen.svg
  • Graswinckel
  • Greven
  • Groeninx van Zoelen
  • Van Grotenhuis van Onstein
  • Gülcher (noble branch extinct)
  • Van Haeften
  • Van Haersma de With
  • Van Heemskerck van Beest
  • Hesselt van Dinter
  • Van Heurn
  • Van der Hoeven
  • Van Holthe / Van Holthe tot Echten
  • Hooft
  • Hooft van Woudenberg
  • Van Humalda van Eysinga
  • Huydecoper / Huydecoper van Nigtevecht
  • Van Iddekinge
  • Jankovich de Jeszenice
  • De Jong van Beek en Donk
  • De Jonge / De Jonge van Campens Nieuwland / De Jonge van Ellemeet / De Jonge van Zwijnsbergen
  • Just de la Paisières
  • Van Karnebeek
  • van der Kelen
  • Kenessey de Kenese
  • Van Kinschot
  • De Kock
  • Kreutzwendedich von dem Borne
  • De Kuyper
  • De la Court
  • De Lange
  • Van Lawick
  • Van Lawick van Pabst
  • Leijssius
  • Van Lennep
  • Van Lidth de Jeude File:Van Lidth de Jeude wapen.svg
  • Van Loon
  • Loudon
  • Lycklama à Nijeholt
  • Van der Maessen de Sombreff
  • De Marees van Swinderen
  • Martens van Sevenhoven
  • Martini Buys
  • Van der Meer de Walcheren
  • Merkes van Gendt
  • Meyer
  • Michiels
  • Van der Mieden / Van der Mieden van Opmeer
  • Mock
  • Mollerus
  • Von Mühlen
  • De Muralt
  • Nahuys
  • Van Nispen tot Pannerden /Van Nispen tot Sevenaer
  • van Oordt
  • Op ten Noort
  • Van Panhuys
  • De Pesters
  • Ploos van Amstel
  • Van de Poll File:Van de Poll wapen 1876.svg
  • Plompe van Meerdervoort
  • Prins
  • Prisse
  • Quarles de Quarles / Quarles van Ufford
  • Quintus
  • Van Raab van Canstein
  • De Ranitz
  • Reigersman
  • Rengers Hora Siccama
  • Repelaer / Repelaer van Driel
  • Rethaan Macaré
  • Reuchlin
  • Van Riemsdijk
  • Van Rijckevorsel
  • Röell
  • De Rotte
  • De Roy van Zuidewijn
  • Rutgers van Rozenburg
  • Sandberg / Sandberg van Boelens / Sandberg tot Essenburg
  • Van Santen
  • Van Staden
  • Van Sasse van Ysselt
  • De Savornin Lohman
  • Schimmelpenninck
  • Von Schmidt auf Altenstadt
  • Schorer
  • De Serière
  • Serraris
  • Sickinghe File:Sickinghe wapen 1902 a.svg
  • Six
  • Van Sminia
  • Smissaert
  • Smits van Oyen
  • Snoeck
  • Snouck Hurgronje
  • Speelman
  • Spengler
  • Van Spengler
  • Stoop
  • Storm van 's-Gravesande
  • Stratenus
  • Strick van Linschoten
  • Van Suchtelen / Van Suchtelen van de Haare
  • Teding van Berkhout
  • Testa
  • Van Tets
  • Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
  • Des Tombe
  • Trip / Laman Trip / Van Vierssen Trip
  • Tulleken
  • Vegelin van Claerbergen
  • Verheyen
  • Versélewel de Witt Hamer
  • De Villeneuve
  • Van Vliet
  • Van Vredenburch
  • Van Weede / Van Weede van Dijkveld
  • Van Weme
  • Wesselman van Helmond
  • Wichers / Van Buttingha Wichers
  • De Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteijn
  • Wittert van Hoogland
  • Wladimiroff
  • Van der Wyck

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Following the House of Lords Act 1999, the current (and presumed last) Marquis has sat in the British House of Lords as a representative hereditary peer under his British title since 2010. See https://members.parliament.uk/member/3391/career
  4. ↑ Following the House of Lords Act 1999, the current Baron has sat in the British House of Lords as a representative hereditary peer under his Scottish title since 2019. See https://members.parliament.uk/member/4713/career

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Sources

  • Melville de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, The Nobilities of Europe, Adamant Media Corporation, 2000

External links

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