From the
early modern period, the style has been used by the members of those
comital families () who, like the , held the status of
Imperial immediacy. They retained it even after the
German Mediatisation of 1802/03, confirmed by the of the
German Confederation in 1828. The style was also adopted by the cadet members of some princely families like
Colloredo-Mansfeld,
Fugger,
Khevenhüller,
Dietrichstein,
Sayn-Wittgenstein,
Schönburg,
Solms,
Starhemberg,
Stolberg,
Waldburg or
Waldeck-Pyrmont. Mediate comital families were entitled to the lower style, . is sometimes used to translate the Russian word (), a style used by members of some Russian princely families (also sometimes translated as
Serene Highness). In
Imperial Russia, the Russian princely counts hold the style of Illustriousness, often translated as "Illustrious Highness". == References ==