In Denmark, if a woman was the heiress to a farm or a business in a town, her children would quite often get her name.
Among the nobility the names were often accumlated. The longest surname is that of the family Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, which inherited several counties, baronies and fideicommisses through women. So if a son of a female holder of a county inherited the county, he was created count with his mother's name added to his original name. Women could inherit the land but not transmit the title.
Another example is the family with a long name is that of Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille. The present owner of Egeskov, count Michael, is the partner of Alexandra Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Or Prinsesse Alexandra af Berleburg as she is known in Denmark)
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: You are right. Sophie before her wedding was
: officially:
: Frau/Faulein Sophie Herzogin in Bayern.
: Her Christian name Sophie and her familyname
: being Herzogin in Bayern.
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: Dutch surnames can even have the word OF
: (meaning or) between to familynames.
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: Smith or Jones but than usually with fancier
: names often resulting from a marriage of a
: woman who was the heiress of one highly
: regarded family who married a man who
: stepped in her family's business or
: positions and thus married up.
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: In Germany the noble titles where not
: abolished and forbidden to use but became a
: part of the surname in 1919. So her name
: before her mariage was Sophie, Herzogin in
: Bayern. As for her style of Royal Highness
: she is referred with t at the official
: Website of the Princely Family.
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: I guess it's a tiny detail, but wasn't
: Sophie's name without a comma: Sophie
: Herzogin in Bayern?
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: Does any other countries than the
: Netherlands accept commas in surnames?
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