Wohlgeboren


Wohlgeboren is a form of address for the lowest ranks of German nobility and claimed by the bourgeois notables. The Latin version of this term is "spectabilis".

German usage

The actual address is Wohlgeboren, it is the proper form of address for a Vogt or Büttel and it was claimed by the Bourgeois notables.

Swedish usage

"Välborne" by untitled Swedish nobility.

Higher form of address

The title should not be confused with the following, in order of increasing rank: