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List of European Jewish nobility

Austrian

Coat of arms of the Rothschild family, granted in 1822 by the Habsburg College of Heralds. It contains a clenched fist with five arrows, symbolizing the branches established by the five sons of Mayer Rothschild. The family motto appears below the shield: Concordia, Integritas, Industria (Harmony, Integrity, Industry).
Coat of arms of Leopold von Seligmann, 1874

Belgian

  • Baron Henich Apfelbaum
  • Baron Lambert
  • Baron Jacques Brotchi
  • Baron Julien Klener
  • Francisco de Silva y Solis (Marquis de Montfort): Military commander under Emperor Leopold I; greatly aided in the defeat of the French François de Créquy in 1675. He settled in Antwerp as a professed Jew.

British

  • See list of British Jewish nobility and gentry

Czech

Dutch

  • Lopes Suasso: family whose nobility was confirmed between 1818 and 1831, extinct in 1970 (notable member: Francisco Lopes Suasso, Baron d'Avernas le Gras (1657–1710), one of the leading shareholders of the West India Company, one of the most ardent supporters of the House of Orange, he supported William of Orange in 1688, in his invasion of England)
  • Salvador: family members ennobled in 1821, extinct 1975
  • Teixeira de Mattos: family members ennobled between 1817 and 1892 (to which family belongs the non noble translator Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
  • Goldman, Jonkheer.

French

Various Jewish families with foreign noble titles live in France, but there were no Jewish families formally ennobled by a French monarch.

German

Coat of arms of the Hirsch auf Gereuth family.

Between 1819 and 1900, a number of titles were conferred on Jews. Of a sample of 700 German nobles created during this period, 62 were Jewish.[1]

Hungarian

Coat of arms of the Königswarter family.
  • Baron Adolf Kohner de Szaszberek
  • Fischer
  • Goldberger de Buda
  • Hatvany-Deutsch
  • Hevesy von Bischitz
  • Hollitscher
  • Jüllich
  • Königswarter
  • von Lieben
  • von Neumann
  • Polanyi
  • Ronai (Baron Herman Weinberger von Rόna)
  • von Rosenberg-Redé
  • Schey von Koromla
  • Szitányi Ullmann
  • von Wertheimstein
  • Zuckerkandl

Italian

  • Baron Lumbroso, said to be from Egyptian-Jewish origin
  • Baron Mazza, Naples
  • del Castelo
  • Paradiso
  • Camondo
  • Rothschild banking family of Naples
  • Tedesco
  • Mendola, Palermo
  • Montini
  • The Franchetti Barons
  • Reinach
  • Senigaglia family
  • Vigil
  • Conte Cahen d'Anvers and Cahen di Torre Alfina (marchese)

Portuguese

Arms of the d'Aguilar Barons
  • Baron Diego Pereira d'Aguilar, Portuguese-born London-based Jewish businessman, created a baron of the Holy Roman Empire by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
  • Baron Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, second Baron d'Aguilar, a Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Baron Harry Emanuel de Almeda[3]
  • David de Stern, German-born British holder of a Portuguese viscountcy[4]
  • Hermann de Stern, German-born British holder of a Portuguese barony[5]

Russian

Coat of arms of the Babanin family
  • Baron Peter Shafirov (1670–1739), vice-chancellor of Russia under Peter the Great
  • Babanin family, a noble family that originated in the Tsardom of Russia
  • Günzburg, also Gunzbourg
    • Baron Joseph Günzburg, Osip Gintsburg, or Iosif-Evzel Gabrielovich Gintsburg (1812, Vitebsk - 1878, Paris), Industrialist[6]
      • Baron Horace Günzburg, Goratsiy Evzelevich Gintsburg, Naftali-Gerts Evzelevich Ginstsburg (1833, Zvenigorodka, Kiev province - 1909, St. Petersburg), Financier, Industrialist[7]
        • Baron Alexander Günzburg, Aleksandr Goratsievich Gintsburg (1863, Paris - 1948, Switzerland)
        • Baron David Goratsiyevich Günzburg (Барон Давид Горациевич Гинцбург David Goratsievich Gintsburg, July 5, 1857, Kamenetz-Podolsk - December 22, 1910, St. Petersburg) was a Russian orientalist and Jewish communal leader.
  • Grinkrugi
  • Ephron
  • Ephrussi
  • Kanegissery
  • Krupa/Kruppa
  • Polyakova
  • Dobrowolski Counts (later Dobrow), Russian and Polish family[8]
  • Gantsmakher
  • Khaykin
  • Ransohov
  • Wertheim (Poland)
  • Nasonov
  • Menschikoff
  • Ulyanov

Spanish

Coat of arms of the Abravanel family.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rubinstein, W. D. (1993). Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain: 1750 -1990. New York, USA. p. 160. ISBN 0415037182.
  2. ^ https://druidikal.wordpress.com/european-jewish-nobility/
  3. ^ The Nobilites edited by the Marquis de Ruvigny, auteur of « the blood Royal of Britain », “The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage”, “The Plant Agener Roll”, etc.
  4. ^ Goodman Lipkind, Joseph Jacobs (1901–1906). "Stern, David, Viscount de". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  5. ^ Goodman Lipkind, Joseph Jacobs (1901–1906). "Stern, Hermann, Baron de". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  6. ^ "Joseph, Baron Gunzburg (Russian philanthropist and banker) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  7. ^ "Horace, Baron Gunzburg (Russian philanthropist and civil-rights activist) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. 1909-03-02. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  8. ^ "Noble Families Of Jewish Ancestry". Chivalricorders.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-04-26.

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