Jonkheer
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Jonkheer is an honorific in the Low Countries denoting the lowest rank of the nobility. In the Netherlands, jonkheer is a prefix used by the untitled nobility. In Belgium, this is the lowest title wit
Grave of Jhr. Johan Schimmelpenninck. A wine merchant, he was active in the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War and was imprisoned and tortured, before being executed in 1943. The tombstone notes his Resistance Cross.
Junker
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Junker is a noble honorific, derived from Middle High German Juncherre, meaning 'young nobleman' or otherwise 'young lord'. The term is traditionally used throughout the German-speaking and Scandinavi
Jonkheer
…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 Junker, which was historically used throughout the German-speaking part of Europe, and to some extent also within Scandinavia. The abbreviation of the honorific…
The renaissance humanist Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil, of the Swiss Meyer zum Pfeil family, held the honorific Junker