High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The German titles Freiherr (Baron) and Freifrau and Freiin (Baroness) are titles of nobility, used preceding the names of people, or later (after 1919), before family names. They are titles of lower peerage rank in the former Holy Roman Empire (in German Heiliges Romisches Reich, HRR), and in its various German successor states, including Prussia, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Hessen and others. In Austria-Hungary and elsewhere, such as in the Baltic and Nordic countries, "Freiherr" (literally "free lord") was considered to be nearly equal to the title of Baron. The original distinction from other barons was that a Freiherr's landed property was allodial instead of a fief. Barons who received their title from the Holy Roman Emperor are known as Barons of the Holy Roman Empire, Reichsfreiherr, although the title is sometimes shortened to Freiherr.

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