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==Honorific title==
In [[Brandenburg]] Junker was originally the members of the higher ''[[edelfrei]]'' ([[Imperial immediacy|immediate]]) nobility without or before the [[accolade]]. It evolved to a general denotation of a young or lesser noble, sometimes
[[Martin Luther]] disguised himself as "Junker Jörg" at the [[Wartburg]]; he would later mock King [[Henry VIII of England]] as "Juncker Heintz".<ref>Henry VIII: September 1540, 26-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 16: 1540-1541 (1898), p. 51. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76214 Date accessed: 10 June 2012</ref>
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