List of noble houses

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A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance, and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch. The concept is comparable with that of an aristocratic clan, and can be used informally to describe non-European ruling families.[1]

When a reigning monarch is a member of a noble house, such as the House of Windsor, that house can also be considered a royal house. Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties 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these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded.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 Addison
  • House of Allenby
  • House of Anson
  • House of Arden
  • House of Ashley-Cooper
  • House of Asquith
  • House of Astor
  • House of Baldwin
  • House of Balfour
  • House of Baring
  • House of Basset
  • House of Bathurst
  • House of Beauchamp
  • House of Beauclerk
  • House of Beaufort
  • House of Beaumont
  • House of Bennett
  • House of Bentinck
  • House of Berkeley
  • House of Bohun
  • House of Boleyn
  • House of Bouverie
  • House of Bridgeman
  • House of Bruce
  • House of Brudenell-Bruce
  • House of Buccleuch
  • House of Byng
  • House of Byron
  • House of Cadogan
  • House of Cairns
  • House of Campbell
  • House of Capell
  • House of Carpenter
  • House of Cathcart
  • House of Cavendish
  • House of Cecil
  • House of Chetwynd-Talbot
  • House of Cholmondeley
  • House of Churchill
  • House of Coke
  • House of Compton
  • House of Cooper
  • House of Corbet
  • House of Cornwallis
  • House of Coventry
  • House of Croft
  • House of Cunliffe-Lister
  • House of De Burgh
  • House of De Clare
  • House of De Ros
  • House of De Vere
  • House of De Warrenne
  • House of Douglas
  • House of Drummond
  • House of Dundas
  • House of Dunkeld
  • House of Eden
  • House of Edgcumbe
  • House of Egerton
  • House of Eliot
  • House of Fane
  • House of Feilding
  • 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
  • House of Gordon-Lennox
  • House of Gough-Calthorpe
  • House of Grenville
  • House of Greville
  • House of Grey
  • House of Grimston
  • House of Grosvenor
  • House of Hamilton
  • 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 Hussey-Montagu
  • House of Jellicoe
  • House of Lambton
  • House of Lancaster
  • House of Lascelles
  • House of Legge
  • House of Lennox
  • House of Leslie
  • House of Leveson-Gower
  • House of Longe
  • House of Lowther
  • House of Lumley
  • House of Lyttelton
  • House of Lytton
  • House of Macdonald
  • House of Manners
  • House of Marsham
  • House of Monckton
  • House of Montagu
  • House of Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
  • House of Morgan
  • House of Mortimer
  • House of Mosley
  • House of Mountbatten
  • House of Mowbray
  • 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
  • House of Petty-FitzMaurice
  • House of Phipps
  • House of Plantagenet
  • House of Pratt
  • House of Rich
  • House of Robinson
  • House of Rodney
  • House of Roper-Curzon
  • House of Rous
  • House of Russell
  • House of Ryder
  • House of Sackville
  • House of Scudamore
  • House of Seymour
  • House of Shirley
  • House of Sinclair
  • House of Spencer
  • House of Spencer-Churchill
  • House of Stanhope
  • House of Stanley
  • House of Stratford
  • House of Strathmore
  • House of Stuart
  • 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
  • House of Vernon
  • House of Villiers
  • House of Vivian
  • House of Waldegrave
  • House of Wallop
  • House of Walpole
  • House of Ward
  • House of Wellesley
  • House of Wentworth
  • House of Wessex
  • House of Windsor
  • House of Windsor-Clive
  • House of Wodehouse
  • House of Wood
  • House of Woodville
  • House of York

France[]

Holy Roman Empire and Germany[]

  • House of Abensberg-Traun
  • House of Ascania
  • House of Amsberg
  • House of Auersperg
  • House of Babenberg
  • 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
  • House of Esterházy
  • House of Falkenstein
  • House of Finck von Finckenstein
  • House of Franckenstein
  • House of Fugger-Babenhausen
  • House of Fürstenberg
  • House of Gravenreuth
  • House of Glücksburg
  • House of Guttenberg
  • House of Habsburg
  • House of Hanover
  • House of Harrach
  • House of Henckel von Donnersmarck
  • House of Hesse
  • House of Hohenberg
  • House of Hohenlohe
  • House of Hohenstaufen
  • House of Hohenzollern
  • House of Isenburg
  • House of Ketteler
  • House of Khevenhüller
  • House of Kinsky
  • House of La Marck
  • House of Leiningen
  • House of Lichnowsky
  • House of Liechtenstein
  • House of Limburg-Stirum
  • House of Lippe
  • House of Lobkowicz
  • House of Löwenstein-Wertheim
  • House of Luxembourg
  • House of Mecklenburg
  • House of Metternich
  • House of Nassau
  • House of Oettingen-Oettingen
  • House of Oldenburg
  • House of Orsini-Rosenberg
  • House of Ortenburg
  • House of Pappenheim
  • House of Putbus
  • House of Puttkamer
  • House of Rennenkampff
  • House of Reuss
  • House of Salian
  • House of Salm
  • House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • House of Sayn-Wittgenstein
  • House of Schönborn
  • House of Schönburg
  • House of Schwarzburg
  • House of Schwarzenberg
  • House of Sinzendorf
  • 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
  • House of Wettin
  • House of Windisch-Graetz
  • House of Wittelsbach
  • House of Württemberg
  • House of Zähringen

Arabia and the Levant[]

The Low Countries of the Habsburg Netherlands[]

Italy and The Papal States[]

  • House of Aldobrandeschi
  • House of Aldobrandini
  • House of Altoviti
  • House of Anscarids
  • House of Barberini
  • House of Barbiano di Belgiojoso
  • House of Bardi
  • House of Boncompagni
  • House of Borghese
  • House of Borgia
  • House of Borromeo
  • House of Bourbon-Parma
  • House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
  • House of Caetani
  • House of Canossa
  • House of Caracciolo
  • House of Chigi
  • House of Colonna
  • House of Cybo
  • House of Della Gherardesca
  • House of Della Rovere
  • House of Della Torre
  • House of Doria-Pamphili-Landi
  • House of Erba-Odescalchi
  • House of Este
  • House of Farnese
  • House of Fieschi
  • House of Fisichella
  • House of Gherardini
  • House of Gonzaga
  • House of Hauteville
  • House of Loredan
  • House of Malaspina
  • House of Mancini
  • House of Massimo
  • House of Mattei
  • House of Medici
  • House of Montefeltro
  • House of Orsini
  • 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
  • House of Sforza
  • House of Simonetti
  • House of Spinola
  • House of Strozzi
  • House of Torlonia
  • House of Venier
  • House of Ventimiglia
  • House of Visconti

Spain and Portugal[]

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[]

Central European states (Hungary and Slovakia)[]

Carpathian states (Wallachia and Moldavia)[]

Nordic Countries[]

Russia, Georgia and Eastern Slavic States[]

Albania[]

  • House of Arianiti
  • House of Kastrioti
  • House of Muzaka
  • House of Zogu
  • House of Dukagjini
  • House of Thopia
  • House of Gropa
  • House of Progoni
  • House of Balsha
  • House of Zenevisi
  • House of Shpata
  • House of Zaharia
  • House of Spani
  • House of Mataranga
  • Begolli family


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

Bosnian[]

Croatian[]

Montenegrin[]

Serbian[]

Greece, The Byzantine Empire and Crusader States of the Levant[]

Ireland[]

Nepal[]

  • Panday Dynasty
  • Basnet Dynasty
  • Rana Dynasty
  • Thapa Dynasty
  • Shah Dynasty
  • Malla Dynasty
  • Chand Dynasty
  • Katyuri Clan
  • Licchavi Clan
  • Shakya Clan

Africa[]

Senegambia (Senegal and The Gambia[]

  • Guelowar
  • Joof
    • The Royal House of Boureh Gnilane Joof
    • The Royal House of Jogo Siga Joof
    • The Royal House of Semou Njekeh Joof
  • Faye
  • Joos Maternal Dynasty

Many of these houses are of many different countries such as House of Butler which has held power and lands in countries such as France, Ireland, Germany and the UK.

References[]

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "house, n.¹ and int, 10. b." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2011.
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