Hochwohlgeboren

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Hochwohlgeboren is a form of address for members of the lower German nobility or gentry. The English translation is High Well Born.

This form of address had connections with the ability to bequeath a family coat of arms and that landed property was allodial instead of a fief. The actual address is "Euer Hochwohlgeboren" (Your High Well Born) and is the correct form of address for German Barons, Knights and Freiherren.

The title should not be confused with (Euer) Hochgeboren. This title ranks higher than Hochwohlgeboren and is the style of Counts and Freiherren of the Uradel.

Another similar title is (Euer) Wohlgeboren which ranks lower than Hochwohlgeboren and is the title of a Vogt or Büttel.