A noble house is an

aristocratic Aristocracy (, ) is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. The term derives from the el, αριστοκρατία (), meaning 'rule of the best'. At the time of the word's ...

family or

kinship In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says th ...

group, either currently or historically of national or international significance, and usually associated with one or more

hereditary title Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are nobility titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families. Though both monarchs and nobles usually inherit their titles, the mechanisms often ...

s, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or

patriarch The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in ce ...

. The concept is comparable with that of an aristocratic clan, and can be used informally to describe non-European ruling families.''Oxford English Dictionary'', "house, ''n.¹'' and ''int'', " Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2011. When a reigning

monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

is a member of a noble house, such as the

House of Windsor The House of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. In 1901, a line of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (itself a cadet branch of the House of Wettin) succeeded the House of Hanover to ...

, that house can also be considered a

royal house A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...

. Many noble houses (such as the Houses of

York York is a cathedral city with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many hist ...

and Lancaster) have birthed

dynasties A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...

and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they are not separate or mutually exclusive entities.

List of noble houses

United Kingdom

House of Aberffraw The Royal House of Aberffraw was a cadet branch of the Kingdom of Gwynedd originating from the sons of Rhodri the Great in the 9th century. Establishing the Royal court ( cy, Llys) of the Aberffraw Commote would begin a new location from which t ...

* House of Abney-Hastings * House of Addison * House of Allenby * House of Anson * House of Anwyl * House of Arden * House of Ashley-Cooper * House of Asquith * House of Astor * House of Baden-Powell * House of Bailey * House of Baldwin * House of Balfour * House of Baring * House of Basset * House of Bathurst * House of Beauchamp * House of Beauclerk *

House of Beaufort The House of Beaufort is an English noble and quasi-royal family, which originated in the fourteenth century as the legitimated issue of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (the third surviving son of King Edward III), whose eldest legitimate ...

* House of Beaumont * House of Benn * House of Bennett * House of Bentinck *

House of Berkeley The Berkeley family is an ancient English noble family. It is one of only four families in England that can trace its patrilineal descent back to Anglo-Saxon times (the other three being the Arden family, the Swinton family and the Wentworth f ...

* House of Bohun * House of Boleyn * House of Bouverie * House of Bridgeman *

House of Bruce Clan Bruce ( gd, Brùs) is a Lowlands Scottish clan. It was a Royal House in the 14th century, producing two kings of Scotland ( Robert the Bruce and David II of Scotland), and a disputed High King of Ireland, Edward Bruce. Origins The surna ...

* House of Brudenell-Bruce * House of Buccleuch * House of Burdett-Coutts * House of Byng * House of Byron * House of Cadogan * House of Cairns * House of Cameron * House of Campbell * House of Capell * House of Carpenter * House of Cathcart * House of Cavendish * House of Cecil * House of Charteris * House of Chetwynd-Talbot * House of Cholmondeley * House of Churchill * House of Clive *House of Coeur De Lion * House of Coke * House of Compton * House of Cooper * House of Corbet * House of Cornwallis * House of Coventry * House of Crichton * House of Croft * House of Cunliffe-Lister *

House of De Burgh The House of Burgh or Burke (; ; ; ga, de Búrca; la, de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty (with the Anglo-Irish branches later adopting the surname Burke and its variants) who held the earld ...

* House of De Carteret * House of De Clare * House of De Montfort * House of De Ros * House of De Vere * House of De Warrenne * House of Delaval * House of Douglas * House of Drummond * House of Dundas *

House of Dunkeld The House of Dunkeld (in or "of the Caledonians") is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the clear succession of Scottish kings from 1034 to 1040 and from 1058 to 1286. The line is also variously referred to by historians ...

* House of Eden * House of Edgcumbe * House of Egerton * House of Eliot * House of Fairfax * House of Fane * House of Feilding * House of Ferrers * House of Fiennes * House of Fiennes-Clinton * House of Finch * House of Finch-Hatton * House of FitzAlan * House of FitzClarence * House of FitzGeorge * House of FitzHamon * House of FitzHugh * House of FitzJames * House of FitzRoy * House of FitzWalter * House of FitzWilliam * House of Fortescue * House of Fox-Strangways * House of Freeman-Mitford * House of Gathorne-Hardy * House of Godolphin * House of Godwin *

House of Gordon A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air con ...

* House of Gordon-Lennox * House of Gough-Calthorpe * House of Graham * House of Grenville * House of Greville * House of Grey * House of Grimston * House of Grosvenor * House of Hamilton * House of Hanbury-Tracy * House of Harley * House of Harris * House of Hastings * House of Herbert * House of Hervey * House of Hicks Beach * House of Hobart * House of Howard * House of Howe * House of Hughes * House of Hungerford * House of Hussey-Montagu * House of Irvine * House of Jellicoe * House of Johnstone * House of Kennedy * House of Kinnaird * House of Lambton *

House of Lancaster The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancasterfrom which the house was namedfor his second son Edmund Crouchback in ...

* House of Lascelles * House of Le Despencer * House of Legge * House of Lennox * House of Leslie * House of Leveson-Gower * House of Lindsay *

House of Longe Longe (; Old Norman: ''le Longe or le Long'') is a surname of Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman origin. The name Longe derives from the Anglo-Norman French ‘Lung’ or ‘Lang’ for tall or high. The family descend from the noble family of Peter de ...

* House of Lowther * House of Lumley *

House of Lyttelton The Lyttelton family (sometimes spelled Littleton) is a British aristocratic family. Over time, several members of the Lyttelton family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Lyttelton family include the viscountci ...

* House of Lytton * House of MacAlpin * House of Macdonald * House of MacLellan * House of Manners * House of Manners-Sutton * House of Marsham * House of Monckton * House of Money-Coutts * House of Montagu * House of Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie * House of Montgomery * House of Morgan * House of Mortimer * House of Mosley * House of Mountbatten * House of Mowbray * House of Murray * House of Neville * House of Noel * House of North * House of Northcote * House of Onslow * House of Paget * House of Palmer * House of Parker * House of Paulet * House of Peel * House of Pelham * House of Pelham-Clinton * House of Pepys *

House of Percy A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

* House of Petty-FitzMaurice * House of Philipps * House of Phipps * House of Pitt * House of Plantagenet * House of Pratt * House of Ramsay * House of Rich * House of Robinson * House of Rodney * House of Roper-Curzon * House of Rous * House of Russell * House of Ruthven * House of Ryder * House of Sackville * House of Scott * House of Scudamore * House of Seymour * House of Seymour-Conway * House of Shirley * House of Sinclair *

House of Spencer The Spencer family is an aristocratic family in the United Kingdom. From the 16th century, its members have held numerous titles including the dukedom of Marlborough, the earldoms of Sunderland and Spencer, and the Churchill barony. Two pro ...

* House of Spencer-Churchill * House of Stanhope * House of Stanley * House of Stratford * House of Strathmore *

House of Stuart The House of Stuart, originally spelt Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter ...

* House of St. Leger * House of Sudeley * House of Swinton * House of Talbot * House of Thynne * House of Tollemache * House of Townshend *

House of Tudor The House of Tudor was a royal house of largely Welsh and English origin that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd and Catherine of France. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and i ...

* House of Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes * House of Tyndall * House of Vane * House of Vane-Tempest-Stewart * House of Vernon * House of Villiers * House of Vivian * House of Waldegrave * House of Wallace * House of Wallop * House of Walpole * House of Ward * House of Wedgwood * House of Wellesley * House of Wentworth * House of Wessex * House of Williams-Wynn *

* House of Windsor-Clive * House of Wodehouse * House of Wood * House of Woodville *

House of York The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. Three of its members became kings of England in the late 15th century. The House of York descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, t ...

France

* House of Albret * House of Amboise *

House of Anjou Angevin or House of Anjou may refer to: *County of Anjou or Duchy of Anjou, a historical county, and later Duchy, in France **Angevin (language), the traditional langue d'oïl spoken in Anjou **Counts and Dukes of Anjou *House of Ingelger, a Franki ...

* House of Armagnac * House of Artois * House of Aumont * House of Avesnes * House of Bauffremont * House of Baux * House of Beauharnais * House of Bethune * House of Blacas *

House of Blois The House of Blois () is a lineage derived from the Frankish nobility, whose principal members were often named Theobald (''Thibaud'', ''Thibault'', ''Thibaut'' in French). History Heirs of the viscounts of Blois, the House of Blois accumulated ...

House of Bonaparte Italian and Corsican: ''Casa di Buonaparte'', native_name_lang=French, coat of arms=Arms of the French Empire3.svg, caption=Coat of arms assumed by Emperor Napoleon I, image_size=150px, alt=Coat of Arms of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, ty ...

House of Bourbon The House of Bourbon (, also ; ) is a European dynasty of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spanis ...

House of Broglie The House of Broglie (, also ; french: Maison de Broglie, or ) is a French noble family, originally Piedmontese, who migrated to France in the year 1643. History () was the name of an old Piedmontese noble family, from which were descended ...

House of Capet The House of Capet (french: Maison capétienne) or the Direct Capetians (''Capétiens directs''), also called the House of France (''la maison de France''), or simply the Capets, ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328. It was the most ...

* House of Choiseul *

House of Clermont-Tonnerre The House of Clermont-Tonnerre is a French noble family, members of which played some part in the history of France, especially in Dauphiné, from about 1100 to the French Revolution (1789–99). History Sibaud, lord of Clermont in Viennois, ...

* House of Crussol d'Uzès *

House of Courtenay The House of Courtenay is a medieval noble house, with branches in France, England and the Holy Land. One branch of the Courtenays became a Royal House of the Capetian Dynasty, cousins of the Bourbons and the Valois, and achieved the title ...

House of Dreux The House of Dreux was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. It was founded by Robert I, Count of Dreux, a son of Louis VI of France, who was given the County of Dreux as his appanage. The Counts of Dreux were relatively minor nobles in France ...

* House of Évreux *

House of Foix Foix (; oc, Fois ; ca, Foix ) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the Préfecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of sout ...

* House of Fouché d'Otrante * House of Gramont *

House of Grimaldi The House of Grimaldi ( , also , , ) is the current reigning house of the Principality of Monaco. The house was founded in 1160 by Grimaldo Canella in Genoa and became the ruling house of Monaco when Francesco Grimaldi captured Monaco in 129 ...

House of Guise The House of Guise (pronunciation: �ɥiz Dutch: ''Wieze, German: Wiese'') was a prominent French noble family, that was involved heavily in the French Wars of Religion. The House of Guise was the founding house of the Principality of Joinv ...

* House of Harcourt * House of La Fayette * House of La Force *

House of La Rochefoucauld The title of Duke de La Rochefoucauld is a French peerage belonging to one of the most famous families of the French nobility, whose origins go back to lord Rochefoucauld in Charente in the 10th and 11th centuries (with official evidence of nobili ...

* House of La Tour d'Auvergne * House of La Trémoille *

House of Lorraine The House of Lorraine (german: link=no, Haus Lothringen) originated as a cadet branch of the House of Metz. It inherited the Duchy of Lorraine in 1473 after the death without a male heir of Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine. By the marriage of Fra ...

* House of Montfort *

House of Montmorency The House of Montmorency, pronounced , was one of the oldest and most distinguished noble families in France. Origins The family name Montmorency derived from their castle in the '' pays de France'', recorded in Latin as ''Mons Maurentiacus'', ...

House of Montrichard
* House of Monpezat * House of Noailles * House of Normandy *

House of Orléans The 4th House of Orléans (french: Maison d'Orléans), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans (french: link=no, Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the R ...

* House of Pineton de Chambrun * House of Poitiers * House of Polignac * House of Rohan * House of Tabouillot * House of Talhouët * House of Talleyrand-Périgord *

House of Valois The Capetian house of Valois ( , also , ) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct Capetians") to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. Junior members of the ...

Holy Roman Empire and Germany

* House of Abensberg-Traun *

House of Ascania The House of Ascania (german: Askanier) was a dynasty of German rulers. It is also known as the House of Anhalt, which refers to its longest-held possession, Anhalt. The Ascanians are named after Ascania (or Ascaria) Castle, known as ''Schlos ...

* House of Amsberg *

House of Auersperg } The House of Auersperg ( sl, Auerspergi or ''Turjaški'') is an Austrian princely family, which held estates in Austria and Tengen (in Baden-Württemberg, Germany). The princely family of Auersperg was a junior branch of the house of Counts of A ...

House of Babenberg The House of Babenberg was a noble dynasty of Austrian Dukes and Margraves. Originally from Bamberg in the Duchy of Franconia (present-day Bavaria), the Babenbergs ruled the imperial Margraviate of Austria from its creation in 976 AD until its ...

* House of Battenberg * House of Bentheim * House of Bibra * House of Bismarck * House of Breuberg * House of Campenhausen * House of Czernin * House of Clary and Aldringen * House of Colloredo-Mansfeld * House of Dietrichstein * House of Dohna * House of Eggenberg *

House of Eltz The House of Eltz was a noted German noble family of the '' Uradel''. The Rhenish dynasty has had close ties to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia since 1736. History Though older sources mentioned one Eberhard zu Eltz, a Frankish citizen of Trier ...

* House of Esterházy * House of Falkenstein * House of Finck von Finckenstein *

House of Franckenstein The House of Franckenstein (also ''Frankenstein'') is the name of a feudal, Franconian noble family in Germany, descendants from the Lords of Lützelbach from Höchst im Odenwald, respectively their offsprings, the Dynasts of the Breuber ...

* House of Fugger-Babenhausen *

House of Fürstenberg A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Gravenreuth *

House of Glücksburg The House of Glücksburg (also spelled ''Glücksborg'' or ''Lyksborg''), shortened from House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, is a collateral branch of the Germans, German House of Oldenburg, members of which have reigned at vari ...

House of Guttenberg The House of Guttenberg is a prominent Franconian noble family. It traces its origins back to 1149 with a Gundeloh von Blassenberg (Plassenberg), though the first mention in a document is dated 1158. The name Guttenberg is derived from Gutt ...

House of Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

House of Hanover The House of Hanover (german: Haus Hannover), whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. The house ori ...

* House of Harrach * House of Henckel von Donnersmarck *

House of Hesse The House of Hesse is a European dynasty, directly descended from the House of Reginar, House of Brabant. They ruled the region of Hesse, one branch as prince-electors until 1866, and another branch as grand dukes until 1918.Burke's Peerage, Bur ...

House of Hohenberg The House of Hohenberg is an Austrian and Czech 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 ...

House of Hohenlohe The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire which was divided between several branches. The Hohenlohes became imperial counts in 1450. The county was divided numerous ti ...

House of Hohenstaufen The Hohenstaufen dynasty (, , ), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The dynasty ...

House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...

* House of Isenburg * House of Ketteler * House of Khevenhüller * House of Kinsky * House of La Marck *

House of Leiningen The House of Leiningen is the name of an old German noble family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland, and the Palatinate. Various branches of this family developed over the centuries and ruled counties with I ...

* House of Lichnowsky * House of Liechtenstein *

House of Limburg-Stirum The House of Limburg-Stirum (or Limburg-Styrum), which adopted its name in the 12th century from the immediate county of Limburg an der Lenne in what is now Germany, is one of the oldest families in Europe. It is the eldest and only surviving b ...

House of Lippe The House of Lippe (german: Haus Lippe) is the former reigning house of a number of small German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. Prince ...

House of Lobkowicz The House of Lobkowicz (''Lobkovicové'' in modern Czech, sg. ''z Lobkovic''; ''Lobkowitz'' in German) is a Czech noble family that dates back to the 14th century and is one of the oldest Bohemian noble families. The family also belong to the G ...

House of Löwenstein-Wertheim A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

House of Luxembourg The House of Luxembourg ( lb, D'Lëtzebuerger Haus; french: Maison de Luxembourg; german: Haus Luxemburg) or Luxembourg dynasty was a royal family of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as ki ...

House of Mecklenburg The House of Mecklenburg, also known as Nikloting, is a North German dynasty of Slavic origin that ruled until 1918 in the Mecklenburg region, being among the longest-ruling families of Europe. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1909–2004), f ...

* House of Metternich *

House of Nassau The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The lords of Nassau w ...

House of Oettingen-Oettingen The House of Oettingen was a high-rank noble Franconian and Swabian family. It ruled various estates that composed the County of Oettingen between the 12th century and the beginning of the 19th century. In 1674 the house was raised to the rank of ...

House of Oldenburg The House of Oldenburg is a German dynasty with links to Denmark since the 15th century. It has branches that rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The c ...

* House of Orsini-Rosenberg * House of Ortenburg *

House of Pappenheim Pappenheim was a German county in western Bavaria, Germany, located on the Altmühl river between Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen, and south of Weißenburg. As former sovereign family, mediatized to Bavaria in 1806, the family which ruled the sta ...

* House of Putbus * House of Puttkamer * House of Rennenkampff *

House of Reuss Reuss (german: Reuß , ) was the name of several historical states located in present-day Thuringia, Germany. Several lordships of the Holy Roman Empire which arose after 1300 and became Imperial Counties from 1673 and Imperial Principalities ...

House of Salian The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty (german: Salier) was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors (1027–1125). After the death of the l ...

* House of Salm *

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (; german: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a Europeans, European Royal House, royal house. It takes its name from its oldest domain, the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, its member ...

* House of Sayn-Wittgenstein * House of Schönborn * House of Schönburg *

House of Schwarzburg The House of Schwarzburg was one of the oldest noble families of Thuringia. Upon the death of Prince Friedrich Günther in 1971, a claim to the headship of the house passed under Semi-Salic primogeniture to his elder sister, Princess Marie ...

* House of Schwarzenberg *

House of Sinzendorf A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Solms-Braunfels * House of Starhemberg * House of Stolberg * House of Thun and Hohenstein * House of Thurn and Taxis * House of Urach * House of Waldburg * House of Waldeck and Pyrmont * House of Waldstein *

House of Welf The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconia, Franconian family from ...

House of Wettin The House of Wettin () is a dynasty of Germany, German monarch, kings, Prince Elector, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The dynasty is one of ...

House of Windisch-Graetz The House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, is an Austrian-Slovenian aristocratic family, descending from Windischgraz in Lower Styria (present-day Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). The noble dynasty serving the House of Habsburg achieve ...

* House of Wittelsbach *

House of Württemberg The House of Württemberg is a German dynasty and former royal family from Württemberg. History County The House probably originated in the vicinity of the Salian dynasty. Around 1080 the ancestors of modern Württemberg, which was then call ...

House of Zähringen The House of Zähringen (german: Zähringer) was a dynasty of Swabian nobility. The family's name derived from Zähringen Castle near Freiburg im Breisgau. The Zähringer in the 12th century used the title of Duke of Zähringen, in compensatio ...

Arabia and the Levant

* House of Abaza * House of Al-Afifi * House of Abu Lahum * House of Al-Alawiyya * House of Al-Ahmar * House of Al-ash-Sheikh * House of Al-Atrash * House of Al-Falahi * House of Al-Falasi * House of Al-Fayez * House of Al-Fa'iz * House of Al-Gilani * House of Al-Harhara * House of Al-Hashim * House of Al-Husayni * House of Al-Iryani * House of Al-Jabriyun * House of Al-Jarwani * House of Al-Jayyusi * House of Al-Maktoum * House of Al-Mualla * House of Al-Nabhani * House of Al-Nahyan *

House of Al-Nuaimi The Na'im () (singular Al Nuaimi ) is an Arab tribe in the United Arab Emirates. The tribe is also present in other gulf countries. The Na'im is divided into three sections, the Al Bu Kharaiban, the Khawatir and the Al Bu Shamis (singular Al Sha ...

* House of Al-Qasimi * House of Al-Qu'aiti * House of Al-Rasheed * House of Al-Sabah * House of Al-Said * House of Al-Saud * House of Al-Sha'lan * House of Al-Sharqi * House of Al-Sudairi * House of Al-''Uyūnīyūn'' * House of Al-Ya'rubi * House of Al-Zaydina * House of Arslan * House of Jumblatt *

House of Khalifah The House of Khalifa ( ar, آل خليفة, translit=Āl Khalīfah) is the ruling family of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Al Khalifas profess Sunni Islam and belong to the Anizah tribe, some members of this tribe joined the Utub alliance which m ...

* House of Ma'n

The Low Countries of the Habsburg Netherlands

House of Arenberg The House of Arenberg is an aristocratic lineage that is constituted by three successive families that took their name from Arenberg, a small territory of the Holy Roman Empire in the Eifel region. The inheritance of the House of Croÿ-Aarschot m ...

* House of Baillet * House of Beaufort-Spontin *

House of Belgium A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Chalon * House of Chasteler * House of Chimay *

House of Croÿ The House of Croÿ () is a family of European mediatized nobility, which held a seat in the Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594. In 1533 they became Dukes of Arschot (in Belgium) and ...

* House of Dampierre * House of De Borchgrave * House of De Lannoy * House of De Witte * House of D'Udekem * House of Egmond * House of Goubau * House of Hénin *

House of Hornes The House of Hornes was an important European noble family, which became extinct in the male line in 1826. The name refers to Horn, a small village in Limburg, located in the Netherlands. History Lordship Originally, the lordship ('' ...

* House of Ligne *

House of Looz-Corswarem The House of Looz-Corswarem is a Belgian ducal family belonging to the Belgian nobility. As reigning Princes of the :File:RheinaWolbeck.jpg, Principality of Rheina-Wolbeck, they also belonged to the German nobility. The immediate territory of the f ...

* House of Merode *

House of Nassau-Weilburg The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of t ...

House of Orange-Nassau The House of Orange-Nassau ( Dutch: ''Huis van Oranje-Nassau'', ) is the current reigning house of the Netherlands. A branch of the European House of Nassau, the house has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherland ...

* House of Parthon * House of Snoy et d'Oppuers * House of Spoelberch * House of Terlinden * House of Trazegnies * House of Ursel *

House of Valois-Burgundy The House of Valois-Burgundy (french: Maison de Valois-Bourgogne, nl, Huis van Valois-Bourgondië), or the Younger House of Burgundy, was a noble French family deriving from the royal House of Valois. It is distinct from the Capetian House of Bur ...

House of van de Werve Van de Werve is the name of one of the oldest noble families from Antwerp that is still in existence. History This family is known to be one of the oldest noble families Flanders. For centuries years they have played an important part in th ...

* House of van der Noot * House of Van Rechteren * House of Van Renesse * House of Van Voorst tot Voorst * House of Van Wassenaer * Seven Noble Houses of Brussels : ** House of Coudenbergh ** House of Roodenbeke ** House of Serhuyghs ** House of Serroelofs ** House of Sleeus **

House of Steenweeghs The House of Steenweeghs or Steenweeghs Lineage (French: Lignage Steenweeghs) is one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, along with Roodenbeke, Sleeus, Serhuyghs, Sweerts, Serroelofs and Coudenberg.Baudouin Walckiers, PB, ''Filiations lig ...

** House of Sweerts

Italy and The Papal States

* House of Alberti * House of Aldobrandeschi * House of Aldobrandini * House of Altoviti *

House of Anscarids The Anscarids ( la, Anscarii) or the House of Ivrea were a medieval dynasty of Frankish origin which rose to prominence in Northern Italy in the tenth century, even briefly holding the Italian throne. The main branch ruled the County of Burgu ...

* House of Barberini * House of Barbiano di Belgiojoso * House of Bardi * House of Boncompagni *

House of Borghese The House of Borghese is a princely family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence in the 13th century and held offices under the '' commune''. During the 16th century ...

House of Borgia The House of Borgia ( , ; Spanish and an, Borja ; ca-valencia, Borja ) was an Italian-Aragonese Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. They were from Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from the tow ...

* House of Borromeo *

House of Bourbon-Parma The House of Bourbon-Parma ( it, Casa di Borbone di Parma) is a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family, whose members once ruled as King of Etruria and as Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Duke of Guastalla, Guastalla, and Duke of Lucca, Lucca. The ...

House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons that ruled Southern Italy and Sicily for more than a century in the 18th and 19th centuries. It descends from the Capetian dynasty in legitimate male line through Phili ...

* House of Caetani * House of Canossa *

House of Caracciolo The House of Caracciolo () is a prominent aristocratic family from the city of Naples. The Caracciolo are considered one of the most important families in the history of the Kingdom of Naples, holding relevant posts in the Spanish Empire as well. ...

* House of Chigi * House of Colonna * House of Cybo * House of Della Gherardesca *

House of Della Rovere The House of Della Rovere (; literally "of the oak tree") was a noble family of Italy. It had humble origins in Savona, in Liguria, and acquired power and influence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes: Fr ...

* House of Della Torre * House of Doria-Pamphili-Landi * House of Erba-Odescalchi *

House of Este The House of Este ( , , ) is a European dynasty of North Italian origin whose members ruled parts of Italy and Germany for many centuries. The original House of Este's elder branch, which is known as the House of Welf, included dukes of Bavaria ...

House of Farnese The House of Farnese family (, also , ) was an influential family in Renaissance Italy. The titles of Duke of Parma and Piacenza and Duke of Castro were held by various members of the family. Its most important members included Pope Paul ...

* House of Fieschi * House of Fisichella * House of Gherardini *

House of Gonzaga ) , type = Noble house , country = , estates = Ducal Palace (Mantua)Ducal Palace ( Nevers) , titles = * Prince of Arches * Duke of Montferrat * Duke of Mantua * Duke of Guastalla * Duke of Nevers * ...

* House of Hauteville * House of Loredan * House of Malaspina * House of Mancini * House of Massimo * House of Mattei *

House of Medici The House of Medici ( , ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici, in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the ...

House of Montefeltro Montefeltro is the name of a historical Italian family who ruled Urbino and Gubbio and became Dukes of Urbino in 1443. The family extinguished in the male line in 1508 and the duchy was inherited by the Della Rovere family. History The ...

House of Orsini The House of Orsini is an Nobility of Italy, Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in Middle Ages, medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: Pope Stephen II, Steph ...

* House of Pallavicini * House of Pazzi * House of Pignatelli * House of Ruffo * House of Ruspoli * House of Sacchetti * House of Salamon * House of Salviati * House of Sanseverino *

House of Savoy The House of Savoy ( it, Casa Savoia) was a royal dynasty that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, the family grew in power from ruling a small Alpine county north-west of Italy to absolute rule of ...

House of Sforza The House of Sforza () was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Milan. They acquired the Duchy of Milan following the extinction of the Visconti family in the mid-15th century, Sforza rule ending in Milan with the death of the last me ...

* House of Simonetti * House of Spinola * House of Strozzi * House of Torlonia * House of Venier * House of Ventimiglia * House of Visconti

Spain and Portugal

House of Alba The House of Alba de Tormes ( es, Casa de Alba de Tormes), commonly known as the House of Alba, is a prominent Spanish noble family that descended from 12th-century nobility of post-conquest Toledo. The family's claim to Alba de Tormes dates from ...

* House of Alburquerque *

House of Álvarez-Cuevas The House of Álvarez-Cuevas or House of Álvarez de Cuevas is a Spanish Nobility, aristocratic family. History The House of Álvarez-Cuevas has its origins in the Asturias, Principality of Asturias, although its members soon settled in the Ki ...

House of Argavieso Argavieso refers to a Lordship in the kingdom of Aragón, Spain. The lords were originated in the bastard of Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand II ( an, Ferrando; ca, Ferran; eu, Errando; it, Ferdinando; la, Ferdinandus; es, Fernando; ...

House of Barcelona The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 (as kings from 1162) until 1410. They descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy. ...

* House of Bettencourt *

House of Braganza The Most Serene House of Braganza ( pt, Sereníssima Casa de Bragança), also known as the Brigantine Dynasty (''Dinastia Brigantina''), is a dynasty of emperors, kings, princes, and dukes of Portuguese origin which reigned in Europe and the A ...

* House of Bourbon-Anjou * House of Cadaval *

House of Camondo The Camondo family was a prominent European family of Jewish financiers and philanthropists. History Part of the Sephardic community in Spain, the Camondo family settled in Venice after the 1492 Spanish decree that ordered the expulsion o ...

* House of Carrillo * House of Castro *

House of Correia Correia is a noble medieval family of Portuguese Christian conquerors of the Reconquista. History The origin of the Correia family is from the village of Salceda de Caselas, district of Tui, Pontevedra, Kingdom of Galicia. The history of the ...

* House of Corte-Real *

House of Cotoner The House of Cotoner is a noble house distinguished in the service of the Spanish Monarchy until the 20th century. History Italian origins The house's origins go back to the Italian city state of Republic of Siena (Italy). When the Cotoner ...

House of Enríquez The House of Enríquez is a Spanish noble lineage of royal origin. History The House of Enríquez originated in the Crown of Castile, in the person of Frederick of Castile (Casa de Borgoña), natural son of King Alfonso XI of Castile and Ele ...

* House of Entença * House of Gonçalves da Câmara *

House of Godoy A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

House of Haro The House of Haro was one of the most powerful families of Castile during the Middle Ages and strongly supported the expansionist policies of Alfonso VI of Castile. As a reward, Íñigo López was named the first Lord of Biscay. In the early 16 ...

House of Hoyos The House of Hoyos is a Spanish and Austrian noble family. It derives its name from El Hoyo de Pinares in Ávila, Castile and León, and can be traced to the 9th century. Juan de Hoyos and his family accompanied the later Ferdinand I, Holy Ro ...

House of Íñiguez A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

House of Jiménez A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air cond ...

* House of la Cerda * House of Lara *

House of Lasso de la Vega The House de la Vega, Laso de la Vega or Lasso de la Vega (sometimes even Garci Lasso de la Vega or Garcilaso de la Vega depending on the family member referenced) is a Spanish noble line from the Kingdom of Castile. The family origins lie in t ...

* House of Latas *

House of Lecubarri The House of Lecubarri ( es, Casa de Lecubarri; ) was an ancient noble family, possibly a cadet branch of the House of Poitiers, through Bernard William of Gascony, Bernard William I. The etymology of the name comes from the words lek(h)u (place) an ...

* House of Maia *

House of Marcoartu The House of Marcoartu ( es, link=no, Casa de Marcoartu) is an ancient Spanish aristocratic family ( es, link=no, Familia de Marcoartu), descended from the House of Gascony, present in the European bourgeoisie. The etymology of the name comes fro ...

* House of Medina Sidonia * House of Medinaceli *

House of Méndez de Sotomayor The House of Méndez de Sotomayor is a branch of the House of Sotomayor that rose to prominence during King Ferdinand III of Castile's reign and went on to found the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio. The house was known for its service to both the ...

House of Mendoza The Mendoza family was a powerful line of Spanish nobles. Members of the family wielded considerable power, especially from the 14th to the 17th centuries in Castile. The family originated from the village of Mendoza (Basque ''mendi+oza'', 'c ...

* House of Montcada * House of Moctezuma * House of Nápoles *

House of Narro The House of Narro is a Spanish noble lineage originally from Guipuzcoa, Basque Country. From there, it spread to various provinces and Spanish kingdoms, particularly to Catalonia, the current Rioja, Avila (Castile and Leon) and America. It ...

* House of Olivares * House of Osorio * House of Osuna * House of Pardo * House of Romay *

House of Santcliment The House of Santcliment was an aristocratic and noble Catalan people, Catalan house established by , Lord of Mequinenza, between 1230 and 1244. He was granted authority by James I of Aragon over the castles of Cinca (Spain), Cinca, Malda, and a ...

House of Silva The House of Silva () is an aristocratic family of Spanish and Portuguese origin. History Juan de Mena's ''Memorias de algunos linages antiguos e nobles de Castilla'', a work of the first half of the 15th century of noble family ancestries, ma ...

House of Sousa Sousa is a noble family of Portugal. History The descendants are of the marriage of Martim Afonso Chichorro and Inês Lourenço de Sousa. It is one of the eldest and nobler houses of Portugal. Its origin starts with the Visigoth Kings and the ...

* House of Tagle *

House of Trastámara The House of Trastámara ( Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan: Casa de Trastámara) was a royal dynasty which first ruled in the Crown of Castile and then expanded to the Crown of Aragon in the late middle ages to the early modern period. They wer ...

* House of Zúñiga

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

* House of Czartoryski * House of Czetwertyński * House of Giedroyć *

House of Griffins The House of Griffin or Griffin dynasty (german: Greifen; pl, Gryfici, da, Grif) was a dynasty ruling the Duchy of Pomerania from the 12th century until 1637. The name "Griffins" was used by the dynasty after the 15th century and had been take ...

House of Jabłonowski A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

* House of Jagiellon * House of Kalinowski *

House of Koniecpolski The House of Koniecpolski (plural: Koniecpolscy) is the name of the Polish noble family. History The Koniecpolski was a magnate family. The family appears in the historical annals beginning in the 15th century. The family originated from the vi ...

House of Krasiński A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

House of Leszczyński A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

House of Lubomirski A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Miełżyński * House of Mniszech * House of Mystkowski * House of Ogiński *

House of Opaliński A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

House of Ossoliński A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

* House of Ostrogski *

House of Piast The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 930–992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great. Bran ...

* House of Poniatowski * House of Potocki *

House of Radziwiłł A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

House of Sanguszko 150px, Paweł Karol Sanguszko 150px, Dymitr Sanguszko 150px, Roman Sanguszko 150px, Janusz Sanguszko 150px, Hieronim Sanguszko 150px, Barbara Sanguszko née Dunin 150px, Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko 150px, Władysław Hieronim Sanguszko 150p ...

* House of Sapieha * House of Sobieski * House of Sułkowski *

House of Wiśniowiecki A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Zamoyski * House of Zasławski

Holy Crown Lands Of Hungary (Modern Day Hungary, Transylvania and Slovakia)

* House of Aba * House of Andechs * House of Andrássy * House of Apor * House of Apponyi * House of Báthory * House of Batthyány-Strattmann * House of Bebek * House of Bethlen * House of Csányi * House of Eötvös * House of Ernuszt * House of Esterházy * House of Festetics *

House of Forgách The House of Forgách was a Hungarian noble family in Hungary which became very influential during the Ottoman wars in Europe in Royal Hungary. The family held the title of Count in Hungary, granted to them on 11 May 1675. Notable members * F ...

House of Garai Garai or Garay ( hr, Gorjanski) were a Hungarian-Croatian noble family, a branch of the Dorozsma (Durusma) clan, with notable members in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were lords of Csesznek. Origin The family was descended from the Dorozsma ...

* House of Hunyadi * House of Kálnoky * House of Lázár * House of Mattyasovszky * House of Mikes *

House of Monok The House of Monok (), alternatively spelled Monaky, Monoky, or Monoki in English and Hungarian, is a Hungarian noble dynasty which held power from the 13th century until the 17th century. The earliest ancestors of the House of Monok are of the ...

* House of Nádasdy * House of Pálffy de Erdöd * House of Perneszy * House of Podmanitzky * House of Ráday * House of Rákóczi * House of Révay * House of Rosty * House of Széchenyi *

House of Szilágyi A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

* House of Teleki * House of Thurzó * House of Tisza * House of Ugron * House of Zápolya * House of Zichy

Carpathian states (
Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and s ...
and
Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centra ...
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* House of Basarab *

House of Bogdan-Mușat The House of Bogdan, commonly referred to as the House of Mușat, was the ruling family which established the Principality of Moldova with Bogdan I ( 1363–1367), giving the country its first line of Princes, one closely related with the Ba ...

* House of Brâncoveanu * House of Brătianu * House of Cantacuzino * House of Cantemir * House of Caradja * House of Craiovești * House of Dănești * House of Drăculești * House of Dragoș * House of Ghica * House of Kogălniceanu * House of Moruzi * House of Movilă * House of Racoviță * House of Rosetti * House of Sturdza * House of Șoldănești * House of Văcărescu * House of Ypsilantis

Nordic Countries

House of Awaldzstadom A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

House of Ahlefeldt A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

* House of Benkestok *

House of Bernadotte The House of Bernadotte is the royal family of Sweden since its foundation there in 1818. It was also the royal family of Norway between 1818 and 1905. Its founder, Charles XIV John of Sweden, was born in Pau in southern France as Jean Bernado ...

* House of Bjelke * House of Danneskiold-Samsøe * House of Estridsen * House of Essen * House of Fabritius de Tengnagel * House of Falkenskiold * House of Falsen * House of Fersen * House of Gyldenstierne * House of Gyllenhaal * House of Güldencrone * House of Igelström * House of Knagenhjelm * House of Koskull * House of Lagergren * House of Løvenørn * House of Mannerheim *

House of Munso A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

* House of Munthe af Morgenstierne * House of Neergaard * House of Oxenstierna * House of Reventlow * House of Rosenkrantz *

House of Rosensverd The House of Rosensverd is a Norwegian noble and royal family. Along with the Gyldenløve family of Austrått, the family are among the few noble and royal families who descend from the medieval royal House of Sverre according to genealogists ...

House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg The House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg () was a branch of the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg of the House of Oldenburg. The line descended from Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. Like all of the secondary ...

* House of Schulman * House of Staël von Holstein * House of Stockfleth * House of Svanenhielm *

House of Sverre The House of Sverre ( no, Sverreætten) was a royal house or dynasty which ruled, at various times in history, the Kingdom of Norway, hereunder the kingdom's realms, and the Kingdom of Scotland. The house was founded with King Sverre Sigurdss ...

House of Vasa The House of Vasa or Wasa Georg Starbäck in ''Berättelser ur Sweriges Medeltid, Tredje Bandet'' pp 264, 275, 278, 291–296 & 321 ( sv, Vasaätten, pl, Wazowie, lt, Vazos) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden. Its memb ...

* House of Werenskiold *

House of Wrangel Wrangel (sometimes transliterated as Wrangell or Vrangel, from the Russian ''Вра́нгель'') is a Baltic German noble family, whose members have also been included in Swedish, Russian, Spanish and Prussian nobility. The family's earliest ...

Russia, Georgia and Eastern Slavic States

* House of Abashidze * House of Abashidze-Gorlenko * House of Amilakhvari * House of Amirejibi * House of Avalishvili * House of Bagration * House of Baratashvili * House of Barclay de Tolly * House of Belosselsky-Belozersky * House of Belsky * House of Chavchavadze * House of Chichua * House of Chikovani * House of Dadeshkeliani *

House of Dadiani The House of Dadiani ( ka, დადიანი ), later known as the House of Dadiani- Chikovani, was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Mingrelia. The House of Dadiani Th ...

* House of Demidov * House of Diasamidze * House of Dolgorukov * House of Dondukov * House of Drutsky * House of Durnovo * House of Gagarin * House of Garsevanishvili *

House of Gelovani The House of Gelovani ( ka, გელოვანი) is a Georgian princely family from the lower part of the mountainous province of Svaneti – formerly rulers of Svaneti. Origin The family can be traced back to the 11th century: one of the p ...

* House of Golitsyn * House of Gorchakov * House of Guramishvili * House of Gurgenidze *

House of Gurieli The House of Gurieli () was a Georgian princely ('' mtavari'') family and a ruling dynasty (dukes) of the southwestern Georgian province of Guria, which was autonomous and later, for a few centuries, independent. A few ducal rulers of the dynas ...

House of Izmaylov The House of Izmaylov is a prominent family of Russian high nobility, descended from the boyars of the Grand Duchy of Ryazan. The Izmaylov family was one of the most powerful in the Duchy of Ryazan. The family was listed in the parts 6 ('ancient ...

House of Jaqeli The House of Jaqeli ( ka, ჯაყელი) was a Georgian princely (''mtavari'') family and a ruling dynasty of the Principality of Samtskhe, an offshoot of the House of Chorchaneli. History "Jaqeli", literally meaning "of/from Jaqi", was or ...

* House of Javakhishvili * House of Khilkov * House of Lieven * House of Lyapunov * House of Menshikov * House of Meshchersky * House of Mikeladze * House of Mstislavsky * House of Obolensky * House of Odoyevsky * House of Orbeliani *

House of Orlov Orlov (russian: Орлóв) is the name of a Russian noble family which produced several distinguished statesmen, scientists, diplomats, and soldiers. The family first gained distinction in the 18th century through the achievements of five ...

House of Pahlen A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air ...

* House of Pavlenishvili * House of Razumovsky * House of Repnin *

House of Romanov The House of Romanov (also transcribed Romanoff; rus, Романовы, Románovy, rɐˈmanəvɨ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina, Anastasia Romanova, was married to t ...

* House of Romodanovsky * House of Rurik * House of Rzhevsky * House of Shalikashvili * House of Sheremetev * House of Shervashidze * House of Stroganov * House of Tolstoy * House of Trubetskoy * House of Tsereteli * House of Vorontsov * House of Yuryevsky * House of Yusupov * Zubov, House of Zubov

Albania

*Arianiti family, House of Arianiti *House of Kastrioti *Muzaka family, House of Muzaka *House of Zogu *Dukagjini family, House of Dukagjini *Thopia family, House of Thopia *Gropa family, House of Gropa *Progoni, House of Progoni *Balšić noble family, House of Balsha *Zenevisi family, House of Zenevisi *Spata family, House of Shpata *Zaharia family, House of Zaharia *Spani family, House of Spani *Mataranga family, House of Mataranga *Begolli family

Western Balkans states (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia)

Bosnian

* Boričević dynasty, House of Boričević * Hrvatinić, House of Hrvatinić * House of Šantić (Santic) * Kosača noble family, House of Kosača * House of Kotromanić * Kulinić dynasty, House of Kulinić * Ljubibratić noble family, House of Ljubibratić * Miloradović noble family, House of Miloradović * House of Nikolić * Pavlović noble family, House of Pavlović * Radivojević noble family, House of Radivojević * Sanković noble family, House of Sanković * Zlatonosović noble family, House of Zlatonosović

Croatian

* Berislavić family of Grabarje, House of Berislavić * Crnković family, House of Crnković * Drašković family, House of Drašković * Frankopan, House of Frankopan * Jelačić family, House of Jelačić * Kačić family, House of Kačić * Keglević family, House of Keglević * Kurjaković family, House of Kurjaković * Nelipić family, House of Nelipić * Pejačević family, House of Pejačević * Trpimirović dynasty, House of Trpimirović * House of Šubić * House of Talovac * House of Zrinski

Montenegrin

* House of Balšić * Crnojević noble family, House of Crnojević * Petrović-Njegoš dynasty, House of Petrović-Njegoš

Serbian

* Bakić noble family, House of Bakić * House of Branković * Dejanović noble family, House of Dejanović * Golemović noble family, House of Golemović * Karađorđević dynasty, House of Karađorđević * Jakšić noble family, House of Jakšić * House of Lazarević * Mrnjavčević family, House of Mrnjavčević * Musić noble family, House of Musić * Nemanjić, House of Nemanjić * Obrenović dynasty, House of Obrenović * Paskačić noble family, House of Paskačić * Preljubović noble family, House of Preljubović * Rastislalić noble family, House of Rastislalić * Vlastimirović dynasty, House of Vlastimirović * Vojislavljević, House of Vojislavljević * Vukanović dynasty, House of Vukanović

Greece, The Byzantine Empire and Crusader States of the Levant

* angelos, House of Angelos * Bagratuni dynasty, House of Bagratuni * House of Calogerà * House of Châteaudun * House of Châtillon * De la Roche family, House of De la Roche * Doukas, House of Doukas * House of Grenier * Gattilusi, House of Gattilusi * Ghisi, House of Ghisi * Hauteville family, House of Hauteville * House of Ibelin * Kantakouzenos, House of Kantakouzenos * Komnenos, House of Komnenos * Kourkouas, House of Kourkouas * Laskaris, House of Laskaris * House of Lusignan * Madi family, House of Madi * Maleinos, House of Maleinos * Mavrocordatos family, House of Mavrocordatos * Houses of Montlhéry and Le Puiset * Palaiologos, House of Palaiologos * Philanthropenos, House of Philanthropenos * Phokas (Byzantine family), House of Phokas * Rubenids, House of Rubenid * Walter of Saint Omer, House of Saint Omer * Marco I Sanudo, House of Sanudo * Skleros, House of Skleros * Theotokis, House of Theotokis * Tocco family, House of Tocco * House of Toulouse * Vatatzes, House of Vatatzes * House of Venier, House of Venieris * Villehardouin family, House of Villehardouin * Ypsilantis, House of Ypsilantis

Ireland

* Marquess of Waterford, House of Beresford * Earl of Cork, House of Boyle * Earl of Meath, House of Brabazon * Marquess of Sligo, House of Browne * Butler dynasty, House of Butler * Marquess of Donegall, House of Chichester * Marquess Conyngham, House of Conyngham * Uí Dúnchada, House of FitzDermot *FitzGerald dynasty, House of FitzGerald *Earl of Kerry, House of Fitzmaurice *Baron Upper Ossory, House of FitzPatrick *Earl of Granard, House of Forbes *Earl of Arran (Ireland), House of Gore *Guinness family, House of Guinness *Duke of Abercorn, House of Hamilton *Baron Decies, House of Horsley-Beresford *Earl of Roden, House of Jocelyn *Earl of Kingston, House of King *Earl of Cavan, House of Lambart *Marquess of Ely, House of Loftus * MacCarthy Mor, House of MacCarthy * MacDermot, House of MacDermot * Dermot MacMurrough, House of MacMurrough Kavanagh * McGillycuddy of the Reeks, House of McGillycuddy * McInerney, House of McInerney * Earl of Clanwilliam, House of Meade * Earl of Drogheda, House of Moore * Earl of Westmeath, House of Nugent * O'Brien dynasty, House of O'Brien * O'Byrne family, House of O'Byrne * O'Callaghan, House of O'Callaghan * O'Conor Don, House of O'Conor * O'Donnell dynasty, House of O'Donnell * O'Donovan family, House of O'Donovan * Farrelly, House of Ó Faircheallaigh * Whelan, House of Ó Faoláin * Ó Fearghail, House of Ó Fearghail * O'Neill Dynasty, House of O'Neill * O'Rourke, House of O'Rourke * David O'Morchoe, House of O'Morchoe * O'Connell family, House of O'Connell * O'Dwyer (surname), House of O'Dwyer * O'Sullivan, House of O'Sullivan * O'Toole family, House of O'Toole * Earl of Longford, House of Pakenham * Earl of Shelburne, House of Petty * Earl of Bessborough, House of Ponsonby * Earl of Tyrone, House of Power * Earl of Mexborough, House of Savile * Earl of Courtown, House of Stopford * Marquess of Headfort, House of Taylour * Viscount Tracy, House of Tracy * Earl Winterton, House of Turnour * Earl of Mornington, House of Wellesley

Nepal

* Pande family, Panday Dynasty * Basnyat family, Basnet Dynasty * Rana dynasty, Rana Dynasty * Thapa dynasty, Thapa Dynasty * Shah dynasty, Shah Dynasty * Malla (Kathmandu Valley), Malla Dynasty * Chand kings, Chand Dynasty * Katyuri kings, Katyuri Clan * Shakya, Shakya Clan

Africa

Senegambia (Senegal and The Gambia

* Guelowar * Joof family, Joof ** The Royal House of Boureh Gnilane Joof ** The Royal House of Jogo Siga Joof ** The Royal House of Semou Njekeh Joof * Faye family, Faye * Joos Maternal Dynasty Many of these houses are of many different countries such as Butler dynasty, House of Butler which has held power and lands in countries such as France, Ireland, Germany and the UK.

References

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