Deposed or Extinct Sovereign Houses
The majority of these nations are now republics or part of republics. The Princely Houses of Germany often have given their own names to the states they ruled.
- Afghanistan
- Barakzai
- Durrani dynasty
- Albania:
- House of Wied
- House of Zogu
- Anhalt: House of Ascania
- Aragon: House of Aragon
- Armenia:
- House of Bagratid
- House of Rubenid
- House of Lampron
- House of Lusignan
- Austria: House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Azerbaijan: House of Shirvanshahs
- Baden: House of Zähringen
- Bavaria: House of Wittelsbach
- Bohemia: Přemyslid dynasty, House of Luxembourg, Jagiellon Dynasty; House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Bosnia: House of Boričević-Berislavić
- Brazil: House of Bragança (branch of the House of Aviz); later Orléans-Bragança (branch of the House of Bourbon, a line of the House of Capet)
- Brunswick: House of Hanover (branch of the House of Guelph, a line of the House of Este)
- Bulgaria:
- House of Dulo
- House of Krum
- House of Cometopuli
- House of Assen
- House of Terteroba
- House of Sratsimir
- House of Dragaš
- House of Battenberg (branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt)
- House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Busseto: Pallavicino
- Byzantine Empire
- Palaiologos dynasty
- Angelos
- Doukas
- Komnenos
- Laskaris
- Cantacuzino family
- China:
Han Chinese:
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- House of Ying 嬴氏: Imperial Family of Qin Dynasty
- Hata clan 嬴氏 (Qin Dynasty), one branch of descendants of Qin Shi Huang, currently live in Japan.
- House of Liu 劉氏 Liu: Imperial Family of Han Dynasty
- House of Li 李氏 Li (李): Imperial Family of Tang Dynasty
- House of Zhao 趙氏 Zhao: Imperial Family of Song Dynasty
- House of Zhu 朱氏 Zhu, Imperial Family of Ming Dynasty
- House of Borjigin 孛兒只斤, a.k.a. 博爾濟吉特 (Yuan Dynasty, Mongol Imperial Family)
- House of Aisin-Gioro 愛新覺羅 (Qing Dynasty, Manchu Imperial Family)
- House of Ying 嬴氏: Imperial Family of Qin Dynasty
- Former Commonwealth Realms: House of Windsor (agnatically the House of Wettin, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha line)
- Croatia: House of Trpimirović, Jagiellon Dynasty
- Cyprus
- House of Windsor (agnatically the House of Wettin, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha line)
- House of Lusignan
- House of Cornaro
- Komnenos
- Egypt: Muhammad Ali Dynasty
- England:
- House of Wessex
- House of Normandy
- House of Anjou
- House of Plantagenet
- House of Lancaster
- House of York
- House of Plantagenet
- House of Tudor
- House of Stuart
- Ethiopia: Solomonic dynasty
- Ferrara, Modena & Reggio: House of Este; later Austria-Este (a branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine)
- France:
- House of Capet (royal), branches including: House of Valois (extinct 1589), House of Bourbon, and House of Orleans.
- House of Bonaparte (imperial)
- Georgia: Bagrationi
- German Empire: House of Hohenzollern (Prussian line)
- Greece:
- House of Wittelsbach
- Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (branch of the House of Oldenburg)
- Hesse and by Rhine: House of Lorraine-Brabant
- Hawaii:
- House of Kamehameha
- House of Keoua
- House of Kalaimamahu
- House of Kalakaua
- House of Kawananakoa
- House of Kalokuokamaile
- Hungary:
- Árpád dynasty;
- House of Samuel Aba of Hungary
- Capetian House of Anjou
- House of Luxembourg
- Jagiellon Dynasty
- House of Hunyadi
- House of Szapolyai
- House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Iran (Persia):
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Qajar Dynasty
- Irak (Iraq): Hashemites
- Ireland (native):
Provincial overkingdoms:
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- O'Connor dynasty (Connacht),
- O'Brien dynasty (Munster).
- O'Neill dynasty (Ulster),
- MacMurrough-Kavanagh dynasty (Leinster),
Regional kingdoms:
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- O'Donnell dynasty (Tyrconnell),
- O'Rourke dynasty (Breifne),
- MacCarthy dynasty (Desmond)
- Ireland (non-native):
- House of Tudor,
- House of Stuart,
- House of Windsor (still reigning in Northern Ireland)
- Israel: House of David
- Kingdom of Italy (medieval): House of Ivrea - lines Valperga di Masino, di San Martino-Lorenzato, Castellamonte, San Martino d'Aglie.
- Kievan Rus: House of Rurik (Several princely and noble families of Rurik stock)
- Italy:
- House of Savoy, or in Italian "Savoia"
- House of Bonaparte (royal)
- Korea:
- GoguryoKingdom (House of Go(高))
- BaekjeKingdom (House of Buyeo(扶餘))
- SillaKingdom (House of Park(朴), House of Sok(昔), House of Kim(金))
- BalhaeKingdom (House of Dae(大))
- GoryeoKingdom (House of Wang(王))
- JoseonKingdom (House of Yi(李))
- Leinster: MacMurrough Kavanagh.
- Libya: Senussi
- Lippe: House of Lippe
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania: House of Mindaugas, House of Gediminas (Ruthenian Hedyminovichy, Belarusian: Гедымінавічы) later a branch of Gediminids - the Jagiellons
- Maldives: Huraa dynasty
- Mali
- Keita Dynasty
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin: House of Mecklenburg (Nikloting dynasty)
- Mecklenburg-Strelitz: House of Mecklenburg (Nikloting dynasty)
- Melfi: House of Melfi
- Mexico:
- House of Iturbide
- House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Mirandola: Pico della Mirandola
- Modena & Reggio
- House of Este
- House of Habsburg-Este
- Monferrato : House of Gonzaga
- Mongolia: the Borjigin Mongol Empire, Choros
- Montenegro:
- House of Vojislavljević
- House of Balšić
- House of Crnojević
- House of Petrović
- Naples and the Two Sicilies: Capetian House of Anjou (branch of the House of Capet); House of Bourbon (branch of the House of Capet)
- Nepal: Shah dynasty
- Oldenburg: House of Oldenburg
- Ottoman Empire (Turkey): House of Osman
- Palatinate of the Rhine: House of Wittelsbach
- Parma Piacenza & Guastalla:
- Farnese
- Bourbon-Parma, a line of the House of Capet
- Poland
- Piast Dynasty
- Jagiellon Dynasty
- Portugal
- House of Burgundy
- House of Aviz
- House of Braganza
- House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- House of Aviz-Beja
- House of Braganza
- House of Aviz
- House of Burgundy
- Persia (Iran):
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Qajar Dynasty
- Polatsk: House of Rahvalodavichy, a branch of the Rurik Dynasty
- Prussia: See German Empire
- Reuß : House of Reuss
- Romania: House of Romania
- Russia: House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (branch of the House of Oldenburg)
- Ryukyu Kingdom: House of Sho
- Sarawak: Brooke family
- Saxony: House of Wettin
- Saxe-Altenburg (Ernestine branch)
- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Ernestine branch)
- Saxe-Meiningen and Hildburghausen (Ernestine branch)
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Grand Duchy of Saxony, Ernestine branch)
- Saxony (Kingdom of Saxony, Albertine branch)
- Schaumburg-Lippe: House of Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt: House of Schwarzburg
- Schleswig-Holstein: House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (branch of the House of Oldenburg)
- Scotland
- House of Alpin
- House of Dunkeld
- House of Balliol
- House of Bruce
- House of Stewart/Stuart
- Senegambia - (present-day Senegal and the Gambia) :
- Joof Dynasty
- House of Boureh Gnilane Joof
- House of Jogo Siga Joof
- House of Semou Njekeh Joof
- House of Joos
- Lingeer Fatim Beye
- Lingeer Ndoye Demba
- House of Guelowar
- Joof Dynasty
- Serbia
- House of Zupan
- House of Nemanjić
- House of Mrnjavčević
- House of Lazarević
- House of Branković
- House of Smederevo
- House of Obrenović
- House of Karadjordjević
- Yugoslavia:
- House of Karadjordjević
- Sicily: House of Altavilla, House of Hohenstaufen, Aragonese Kings of Sicily
- Slavonia: Jagiellon Dynasty
- Spain (pre-unification)
- House of Ivrea
- Nasrid Dynasty
- House of Navarre (inherited by the Bourbon dynasty, a line of the Capetian dynasty)
- House of Trastámara
- Spain (unified Kingdom)
- senior branch of the House of Habsburg (extinct 1700)
- House of Bourbon (current rulling royal family, restored in 1975)
- House of Bonaparte
- House of Savoy
- Sri Lanka: Nayaks of Kandy
- Thailand
- Uthong Dynasty
- Suphannaphum Dynasty
- Sukhothai Dynasty
- Prasat Thong Dynasty
- Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty
- Thonburi Dynasty
- Turkey: House of Osman
- Tunisia: Husainid Dynasty
- Tuscany:
- Medici
- House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Tyrconnell: O'Donnell
- Vietnam:
- Lý Dynasty
- Trần Dynasty
- Mạc Dynasty
- Lê Dynasty
- Nguyễn Dynasty
- Waldeck and Pyrmont: House of Waldeck-Pyrmont
- Wales:
- House of Aberffraw
- House of Dinefwr
- House of Mathrafal
- Westphalia: House of Bonaparte (royal)
- Wied: House of Wied
- Württemberg: House of Württemberg
- Yawnghwe (Myanmar): Kanbawza
- Yemen: al-Qasimi
- Zimbabwe: Munhumutapa the bloodline survives in several kingdoms and chieftaincies in Southern Africa.
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