Mecklenburgian nobility

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Mecklenburgian royal

German noble family

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

Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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Mecklenburger-Schwerinese Royal