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page 1Barons of the Holy Roman Empire
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
Freiherr
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(; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , ) and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc. Traditionally, it denotes the titled rank within the nobility above ' (knight) and ' (nobility without a specific title) and below ' (count or earl). The title superseded the earlier me
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright (1723-1807)
Anacharsis Cloots
Prussian noble (1755-1794)
House of Schwarzenberg
noble family
Theodore of Corsica
German noble (1694–1756)
Samuel von Brukenthal
Habsburg governor
Hans von Pechmann
German chemist (1850–1902)

Friedrich von Hügel
Austrian Roman Catholic layman theologian (1852–1925)
Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Prussian soldier
House of Franckenstein
noble family

Blasius Kolumban von Bender
Luxembourgish politician (1713-1798)
François Paul de Lisola
French diplomat (1613-1674)
Heinrich von Cocceji
Dutch scholar
Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg
German politician and author (1755-1836)
Johann Philipp Anton von Frankenstein
German priest (1695-1753)
Theobald von Oer
German artist (1807-1885)
Christian Darnton
British composer (1905-1981)

Erkinger I. von Seinsheim, Freiherr von Schwarzenberg
(1362-1437)
House of Guttenberg
noble family
Henry of Bibra
German priest