 It evolved to a general denotation of a young or lesser noble, sometimes politically insignificant, understood as "country squire".Martin Luther disguised himself as "Junker Jörg" at the Wartburg; he would later mock King Henry VIII of England as "Juncker Heintz".As part of the nobility, many "Junker" families only had prepositions such as "von" or "zu" before their family names without further ranks.