Bohemian or Czech nobility refers to the noble families

Nobility

Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...

 of the Czech state

Czech lands

Czech lands is an auxiliary term used mainly to describe the combination of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. Today, those three historic provinces compose the Czech Republic. The Czech lands had been settled by the Celts , then later by various Germanic tribes until the beginning of 7th...

 (historically composed of Bohemia proper

Bohemia

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

, Moravia

Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

, Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

 (especially Upper

Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of...

) and Lusatia

Lusatia

Lusatia is a historical region in Central Europe. It stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Elbe valley in the west, today located within the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as in the Lower Silesian and Lubusz voivodeships of western Poland...

), also known as "Bohemian Crown", "The Lands of the Bohemian Crown" or "The Lands of the Crown of Saint Wenceslaus".

Aristocracy was abolished by law in December 1918 at the occasion of birth of the independent Czechoslovak Republic

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

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Families

(still under construction)

• z Aichelburka
• Bavorové ze Strakonic
• Belcredi
• Bibra
  Bibra family
  For other Bibra and Bibran entries, go to Bibra disambiguation pageBibra family was one of the leading families in Franconia and Thuringia from the mid-15th century to about 1600. Later on the family rose from Reichsritter to Reichsfreiherr...
  
  
• Bořkové-Dohalští
• z Bubna
• Clary-Aldringenové
  Clary-Aldringen
  The House of Clary-und-Aldringen or Clary-Aldringen is one of the most prominent Austro-Hungarian princely family of Bohemian noble origin.-Origin:...
  
  
• Colloredo-Mansfeldové
  Colloredo-Mannsfeld
  Colloredo-Mansfeld is an Austrian Princely dynasty which according to – unverified – family tradition descends from the Swabian Lords of Waldsee. Allegedly one Liebhart of Waldsee came to Italy attendant King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle...
  
  
• Czernin
• Chotkové
• Deymové
• Dobřenští
• z Dubé
• Berka z Dubé
  Berka z Dubé
  Berka z Dubé was a medieval Bohemian aristocracy line established by Hynek Berka z Dubé .-Domanial:Houska, Bělá, Bezděz, Lemberk, Dubí, Zákupy, Milštejn, Tolštejn, Kokořín, Kuřívody, Berštejn-Notable aristocrats:...
  
  
• Filípkové
• z Jelení
• Hildprandtové
• Jankovský z Vlašimi
  Jankovský z Vlašimi
  The family Jankovský z Vlašimi origin is from ancient family Vlašimskou of Prince Vlastislaviců with Coat of Arms of the Přemyslovci Black Eagle on the family's shield. Beginning in the 13th Century at Jankov in Bohemia was the family line Jankovskou: z Vlašimě, z Jankova and then Jankovští z...
  
  
• Janowsky z Janowicz
• Jesenští
• Harrach
  Harrach
  The Harrach family is a Bohemian and Austro-German noble family. The Grafs von Harrach were among the most prominent families in the Habsburg Empire.-History:...
  
  
• Holleb
• Kálnokyové
• Kinští
• Kolowrat
• Kounicové
• z Kravař
• z Kunštátu
• Lichtenburkové
• Lichtenštejnové
• Lannové
• Lichnowsky
  Prince Lichnowsky
  Lichnowsky -Freiherr und Edler Herr von Woschutz :* Franz Bernhard Lichnowsky, Freiherr und Elder Herr von Woschutz 1664-1747)* Franz Bernhard Lichnowsky, Graf Lichnowsky ...
  
  
• z Lipé
• Lobkovicové
• Matuškové
• z Mitrovic
  House Wratislaw of Mitrovic
  Wratislav of Mitrowitz The family had many members, who were in certain times very famous:* Eugen Graf Wratislaw von Mittrowitz , Austrian General...
  
  
• Neubergové
• Nosticové
  Nostitz (family)
  The Nostitz family are a Silesian aristocratic family, named after Nostitz in Saxony, with a history dating back to 1280.Famous members of the family have included:* Helene von Nostitz, , writer and salon Dame...
  
  
• Paarové
• Parishové
• Piccolomini
  Piccolomini
  Piccolomini is the name of an Italian noble family, which was prominent in Siena from the beginning of the 13th century onwards. In 1220, Engelberto d'Ugo Piccolomini received the fief of Montertari in Val d'Orcia from the emperor Frederick II as a reward for services rendered...
  
  
• z Poděbrad
• Přemyslovci
• Purkyně
• Ringhofferové
• Rohanové
• Ronovci
• Rosenberg
  House of Rosenberg
  The Rosenberg family was the most significant and influential Bohemian noble family playing important role in Czech medieval history from 13th century till 1611...
  
  
• z Rýzmburka
• Slavník's dynasty
  Slavník's dynasty
  The Slavniks/Slavníks or Slavnikids was a powerful dynasty in Bohemia during the 10th century. It governed Zličané, one of the oldest Czech tribes. The center of the principality was the gord of Libice located at the confluence of the rivers Cidlina and Elbe...
  
  
• Smiřičtí
• Šlikové
• Schwarzenbergové
  House of Schwarzenberg
  -History:The family was first mentioned in 1172. A branch of the Seinsheim family was created when Erkinger I of Seinsheim acquired the Franconian barony of Schwarzenberg, the castle Schwarzenberg and the title Baron of Schwarzenberg, in 1405–21. At this time, they also possessed some fiefdoms in...
  
  
• Šporkové
• Šternberkové
• Švamberkové
• Thun-Hohenstein
  Thun-Hohenstein
  Thun und Hohenstein, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, is a family which belonged to the historical Bohemian and Austrian nobility. One branch of the family has dwelled at Děčín , Bohemia, for more than 200 years....
  
  
• Waldstein
  Waldstein family
  The House of Waldstein is a Bohemian noble family. It acquired large properties in Bohemia and Moravia and produced many statesmen and civil servants. In 1628 the family was one of the first among the Bohemian nobility to be promoted to graf status, then to Reichsgraf two years later...
  
  
• Vítkovci
• z Vlašimi
• Vršovci
  Vršovci
  The Vršovci were a noble Czech family and clan, probable or legendary ancestors of some bearers of the Oksza and the Rawicz coat of arms ....
  
  
• Zedwitzové
• Žerotínové

Source

• Der böhmische Adel von Graf Meraviglia-Crivelli 1886. *http://www.historie.hranet.cz/heraldika/pdf/meraviglia1886