# Waldgrave > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Waldgrave > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Waldgrave.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldgrave > Source revision: 1253069621 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German noble family}} {{about|the German noble family|the English family|Waldegrave family|the Northamptonshire village|Walgrave}} {{refimprove|date=July 2021}} [[File:Armoiries de Tavigny.svg|thumb|Arms of the Wildgraves at [Kyrburg](/source/Kyrburg)]] [[File:Wildgraf Dhaun COA.png|thumb|Arms of the Wildgraves at [Dhaun](/source/Dhaun)]] The first '''Waldgraves''' or '''Wildgraves''' (Latin: ''comites silvestres'') descended from a division of the House of the [Counts of Nahegau](/source/Emichones) in the year 1113. When the {{lang|de|[Nahegau](/source/Nahegau)|italic=no}} (a countship named after the river [Nahe](/source/Nahe_(Rhine))) split into two parts in 1113, the counts of the two parts, belonging to the [House of Salm](/source/House_of_Salm), called themselves [Wildgrave](/source/Wildgrave)s and [Raugrave](/source/Raugrave)s, respectively. They were named after the geographic properties of their territories: Wildgrave ({{langx|de|Wildgraf}}; {{langx|la|comes sylvanus}}) after {{lang|de|Wald}} ("forest"), and Raugrave ({{langx|de|Raugraf}}; {{langx|la|comes hirsutus}}) after the rough (i.e. mountainous) terrain.{{Meyers Online|13|0605|spezialkapitel=Raugraf}} == References == {{reflist}} Category:German noble families Category:Noble families of the Holy Roman Empire {{Noble-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Waldgrave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldgrave) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldgrave?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.