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Edler (Edler von), was until 1919 the lowest title of
nobility in
Austria-Hungary and
Germany, just beneath a
Ritter, but above nobles without title which used only the preposition "von" before their surname. It was mostly given to civil servants and military officers, as well as those upon whom the second rank of an
Order (decoration) had been conferred. Women were styled
Edle (Edle von).
Originally, from the Middle Ages, under the
feudal system (in Europe and elsewhere), the nobility were generally those who held a
fief, often in the form of heritable land worked by
vassals.
To preserve the feudal naming practice, even in cases where upper ranking bureaucrats were the recipients of patents of nobility on the basis of long service and/or merit, as in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries (see
bureaucratic nobility), the old practice of denoting a noble with a
territorial designation was continued out of a sense of tradition.
Thus, landless nobles were created under the formula, "Edler von XYZ", where the surname, XYZ, or possibly a place name, XYZ, followed the German preposition 'von', which, in this context, was taken to denote nobility. The
English translation of this is normally "
Noble of XYZ", where "XYZ" is classically a place name, but often a surname. Frequently, the
nobiliary particle von (English 'of', or, more commonly, the French
particule de noblesse 'de', meaning the same thing), was represented simply by the abbreviation 'v.' to specify that it was being used to denote a member of the nobility, and not simply as the ordinary German-language preposition 'von'.
An example of such a person's name and title is 'Josef Draginda, Edler v. Draginda'. His wife would have been, for example, 'Johanna Draginda, Edle v. Draginda'. Another example is the Austro-Hungarian general
Viktor Weber Edler von Webenau, who signed the
Armistice of villa Giusti between
Austria-Hungary and the
Entente in the end of
World War I.
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