The von Quitzow family is a noble family of
Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...
, whose power in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century was so great that this period of Brandenburg history is sometimes called the "Age of the von Quitzows." Its most famous sons were the
robber barons, the brothers Dietrich (born 1366) and Hans (born 1370).
German families
Margraviate of Brandenburg
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