Brunette Girl Reveals Outside With A Sword And Knight's Armour

The German and Austrian equivalent of an hereditary knight is a Ritter. This designation is used as a title of nobility in all German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "Freiherr". For its historical association with warfare and the landed gentry in the Middle Ages, it can be considered roughly equal to the titles of "Knight" or "Baronet".
France, Italy, and Poland also had the hereditary knighthood that existed within the nobility system.
• Great Britain and Ireland
There are traces of the Continental system of hereditary knighthood on the British Isles.. Notably all three of the following belong to the Welsh-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, created by the Earls of Desmond, acting as Earls Palatine, for their kinsmen.