l'égalité des familles patriciennes et de leurs titulatures" (17 and 18 July 1782) is not really a collective ennoblement but the official confirmation of a state of things. Lucerne In Lucerne at the end of the 17th century the patricians were named with the title "Junker" and regularly made use of their nobility when they were abroad, particularly when they served in the foreigner armies. Some families also received foreigner letters of nobility. Solothurn In Soleure the patriciate in fact was formed gradually. Some families set up the corporations to be able to control the co-optation. So the capacity passed to a definite number of privileged families who then formed a noble patrician whose members were qualified "Herren und Bürger". Numbers of these families accepted letters of nobility abroad, particularly in France. Noble Families of Berne von Erlach von Graffenried von Gunten Noble Families of Fribourg Noble Families of Soleure Noble Families of Lucerne Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald In the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwald, the political evolution from the Middle Ages to the 19th century was realised by a relatively similar way but really doesn't lead to the constitution of a "patriciate" but rather to the formation of a relatively closed class of new families sharing the political power with the ancient noble families. Some of the new families were ennobled abroad while others were incorporated to the Nobility by "integration". Noble Families of Uri: von Attinghausen-Schweinsberg (freiherren, higher nobility; leading family of Uri in the 13/14th c.). A number of local families were appointed meier (bailiffs) by the abbess of Fraumünster, the ruler of Uri, around the middle of the 13th century. These abbatial ministeriales grew more influential after the end of Attinghausen hegemony and are generally considered members of the lower nobility. They include the following families: Niemirschin (bailiffs of Bürglen) Schüpfer (related to the Niemirschin; bailiffs of Bürglen, at times landammanns of Uri) Meier von Erstfeld (bailiffs of Erstfeld, at times eigenleute of Wettingen Abbey) Meier von Silenen (perhaps related to the Schüpfer; bailiffs of Silenen ca. 1256-1370; originally from Urseren; later also ministeriales of the bishop of Sion, with Jost of Silenen ascending to the bishopric itself; influential patrician family in the city of Lucerne) von Moos (bailiffs of Silenen after 1370; originally most likely ministeriales of Disentis in the Urseren valley; would later become an influential family of patricians and industrialists in the city