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: Is that similar to the German Schmidt gen.
: Schultz? (Schmidt called Schultz)
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: 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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