 "Junker" (and its cognates) was traditionally used as a noble honorific throughout the German-speaking parts of Europe.The title today survives in its traditional meaning in the Netherlands and Belgium in the Dutch form "Jonkheer".The term was also used in several countries in the title "Kammerjunker", the German and Scandinavian equivalent of the French "valet de chambre", a position usually given to young noble men in the service of a princely rank person at the court.