List of Family Houses in Dune

The following are the family Houses featured in the fictional "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert. The assembly of all the nobles in the Imperium, called the Landsraad, consists of many additional Houses Great or Minor which are never mentioned in the novels.

House Atreides

House Atreides is one of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the Imperium, its members play a role in every novel in the series. It is suggested within the series that the root of the Atreides line is the mythological Greek House of Atreus. In Homer's Iliad, the brothers Agamemnon and Menelaus are dubbed "the Atreides," or, sons of Atreus.

House Boro

House Boro was the imperial house that ruled the Old Empire before its downfall at the hands of the thinking machines. During the Butlerian Jihad, Iblis Ginjo married Camie Boro, the last descendant of House Boro, as part of his plan to ascend in the League of Nobles. Their great-granddaughter Jessica Boro-Ginjo would later marry Faykan Corrino, the first Padishah Emperor, making future members of House Corrino and House Atreides descendants of House Boro.

House Corrino

House Ecaz

House Ecaz rules the fourth planet of Alpha Centauri B, also named Ecaz. During the events of "Prelude to Dune", the head of the House is Archduke Armand Ecaz. At this time, House Ecaz was in kanly, or vendetta, with House Moritani.

House Fenring

House Hagal

House Hagal allied itself with the Imperial House Corrino when Padishah Emperor Elrood IX wed Yvette Hagal. Their daughter Edwina would later be the great-grandmother of Paul Atreides. Their homeworld of Hagal was once rich in gems before it was mined out.

House Ginaz

House Harkonnen

House Moritani

House Mutelli

House Mutelli also wed one of its own, Barbara, to Emperor Elrood IX.

House Novebruns

The planet Novebruns is noted in "Children of Dune" when Gurney Halleck recounts that "three hundred and twenty-one liters [of melange] were said to have bought half of Novebruns Planet from the Mutelli family." In ', the Lord of House Novebruns"' formally requested that Emperor Shaddam IV grant the destroyed House Taligari world of Zanovar to him so that he could mine it for "valuable raw materials."

House Ordos

House Ordos is featured in the Westwood Studios "Dune" video games; this House is listed in the non-canon "Dune Encyclopedia" [McNelly, Willis E. "The Dune Encyclopedia", 1 June 1984, pg. 273, ISBN 0-425-06813-7 (US edition)] but has never been mentioned in any of the novels.

House Richese

House Taligari

In the "Prelude to Dune" series, House Taligari had adopted Tyros Reffa, illegitimate son of Padishah Emperor Elrood Corrino IX and his concubine Shando Balut, later the wife of Earl Dominic Vernius of Ix. Their homeworld was the recreational planet Zanovar.

House Vernius

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