Belgian noble titles

' (female equivalent: '; in the masculine only; jonkvrouw is used in the feminine, even in French; ) is an honorific in the Low Countries denoting the lowest rank of the nobility. Currently in the Netherlands, jonkheer in general concerns a prefix used by the untitled nobility. In Belgium, this is the lowest title within the nobility system, recognised by the Court of Cassation. It is the cognate and equivalent of the German noble honorific , which was historically used throughout the German-speaking part of Europe, and to some extent also within Scandinavia.

noble rank in the Netherlands and Belgium