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^{[clarification needed]}, 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

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these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded.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.

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

Asia

Arabia and the Levant

Japan

Nepal

Thailand

Europe

England, Great Britain, United Kingdom

Ireland

France

Holy Roman Empire and Germany

The Low Countries of the Habsburg Netherlands

Italy and the Papal States

Spain and Portugal

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Holy Crown Lands of Hungary (Contemporary Hungary, Transylvania and Slovakia)

Carpathian states (Wallachia and Moldavia)

Nordic countries

Russia, Georgia, Armenia

Albania

Western Balkan states (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia)

Bosnian

Croatian

Montenegrin

Serbian

The Byzantine Empire, Greece and Crusader States of the Levant

European Jewish

The Americas

Brazil

Canada

Haiti

Mexico

United States

Africa

Benin

Burundi

Cameroon

The Congo

Ghana

Egypt and Sudan

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Lesotho

Libya

Madagascar

Mali

Morocco

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegambia

South Africa

Zanzibar

Polynesia

Hawaii

Samoa

Tonga

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