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page 1Lower Saxon nobility

Adolph Freiherr Knigge
German writer and leading Illuminati member (1752–1796)
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
Russian general (1683-1767)

Tiesenhausen
thumb|Tiesenhausen's Blazon
thumb|Counts von Tiesenhausen's [[coat of arms ]]
Altmann of Passau
German bishop
Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Prussian soldier
House of Amsberg
The House of Amsberg (, ) is a German noble family of Polabian origin that originated in Mecklenburg and whose agnatic head is the present King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander. A great-grandson of a blacksmith and grandson of a baker, parish pastor August Amsberg (1747–1820) started calling himself "von Amsberg" in 1795, and the family's right to use this name was confirmed in 1891 by Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. By this permission to use a nobiliary particle, the family effectively became part of the German untitled lower nobility (Niederer Adel) of the Gran
Ernst zu Münster
German diplomat (1766-1839)
Dietrich of Horne
German bishop (14th century)

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg
German officer, estate manager and local politician as well as resistance fighter against National Socialism (1891-1958)
Poppo I of Blankenburg
Count of Regenstein-Blankenburg