Dönhoff
Sign in to savethumb|Coat of arms of the House of Dönhoff, as part of the German nobility in 1903 The House of Dönhoff (Polish: Denhoff, sometimes also Doenhoff) was an old and influential German noble family that later became prominent in Prussia and was incorporated into the Baltic-German and Polish-Lithuanian nobility. The family consisted of one princely line (died out) and other comital lines.
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thumb|Coat of arms of the House of Dönhoff, as part of the German nobility in 1903 The House of Dönhoff (Polish: Denhoff, sometimes also Doenhoff) was an old and influential German noble family that later became prominent in Prussia and was incorporated into the Baltic-German and Polish-Lithuanian nobility. The family consisted of one princely line (died out) and other comital lines.
== History == It was first mentioned in 1282, in the County of Mark in Westphalia. Their original seat was Dönhof near Witten which remained in the family until 1463. From 1303 until the 16th century a property called Dönhoff near Wetter (Ruhr) was also owned by the family.