List of European Jewish nobility

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Austrian

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

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.
  • Hirsch

British

Baron Harry Emanuel de Almeda[1]

Czech

Dutch

French

Many noble foreign Jewish families live in France but there were not Jewish families formally ennobled by a French monarch.

German

Coat of arms of the Von 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.[2]

Greek

Spanos Verros Papadakis Zerlentes

Hungarian

Coat of arms of the Königswarter family.

Italian

Russian

Coat of arms of the Babanin family.

Spanish

Coat of arms of the Abravanel family.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Rubinstein, W. D. (1993). Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain: 1750 -1990. New York, USA. p. 160. ISBN 0415037182.
  3. ↑ "Joseph, Baron Gunzburg (Russian philanthropist and banker) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  4. ↑ "Horace, Baron Gunzburg (Russian philanthropist and civil-rights activist) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. 1909-03-02. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  5. ↑ "Noble Families Of Jewish Ancestry". Chivalricorders.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
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