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Prior to Frederick the Great the family lived in Austrian Silesia and bore the Latin name Praetorius. After Silesia was annexed by Prussia the family was given a barony and the name von Richtoffen by Frederick. Frederick died in 1786 so the ennobeling took place sometime between that date and the beginning of Frederick's reign in 1740.
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