of Lucerne; still extant) Noble Families of Schwyz: Reding von Bibberegg (ministeriales) Noble Families of Unterwald: Rudenz (ministeriales, originally from the Haslital) Zürich In 1400 the city of Zürich formally became autonomous within the Holy Roman Empire. Before this date the only noble families were families of ministériaux. Quickly the political power came to the corporations while giving a dominant position to the noble corporation of the "Constaffel" in which was constituted a "noble chamber" called "adelige Stube zum Rüden Stübli". The members families of the Corporations were mainly in them by heredity The members of Stübli used the title "Junker". In 1798 the Stübli did not count any more than eleven families. The Bonstetten family came to Bern in 1463 and ended in 1606. Some still extant families of the nobility of Zürich received additionally foreign titles such as the Hirzel, count in France in 1788. Noble Families of Zurich von Kyburg Bonstetten Brun Bürkli Daeschner Escher vom Glas Escher vom Luchs Hirzel von Jori Kilchsperger Landenberg Manesse Meiss Meyer von Knonau Mülner von Orelli Winterthur Schaffner, Zug In the cantons of Schaffners and Zug, the political power belonged to the corporations. So there was not real hereditary prerogative for the governmental loads. In the canton of Zug the few families who had received letters of nobility abroad are extinguished. The very democratic system of this canton hindered a nobility expansion. In the canton of Schaffner the noble families formed since the 13th century the "Herrenstube" which became during the 15th century one of the twelve corporations. Some ancient families were extinguished and replaced in the "Herrenstube" by new families of the "integration nobility". In 1864 these families were maintained in their right to be buried in the "Junkernfriedhof", their last privilege. Noble Families of Schaffhouse Noble Families of Zug Valais, Thurgovie, Tessin In the cantons of Valais, Thurgovie and Tessin, the former noble families were maintained and only some families were ennobled abroad. The "patriciat valaisan" which provides in particular the prince-bishops, was formed with families of old nobility but also with some families incorporated into the nobility either by possession of a right of jurisdiction either by membership to the "nobility of integration". Some of these families also accepted letters of nobility abroad. This patriciate was not a patriciate of right but in fact. Tessin, before becoming a Swiss canton in 1803, did not form a political