-
Depending on time and region,
various laws have
governed who
could be
ennobled and how. Typically,
nobility was
conferred on
individuals who had ****isted...
- bourgeois, most
particularly the
members of the
various parlements, were
ennobled by the king,
constituting the
noblesse de robe. The old
nobility of landed...
-
scholars were
occasionally ennobled until the country's
defeat in the
Second World War in 1945 (新華族, shin kazoku, 'the
newly ennobled'). The
system was abolished...
- John
Jacob Astor, 1st
Baron Astor of Hever,
ennobled (United Kingdom) John Copley, 1st
Baron Lyndhurst,
ennobled (United Kingdom)
Helen Beresford, Baroness...
-
economic and
industrial development of Sweden,
particularly mining. He was
ennobled by King
Charles XII of
Sweden for his
contributions to
Swedish technological...
- States, and took over the
Quirinal Palace, and any
nobles subsequently ennobled by the pope
prior to the 1929
Lateran Treaty. For the next 59 years, the...
- century. The
ennobled families includes the
families ennobled by an
office or by
letters patent from the King.
Different principles of
ennoblement can be distinguished:...
- from
cavalry officer Lieutenant Nils
Gunnarsson Haal (died 1680 or 1681),
ennobled in 1652 with a
change of name to "Gyllenhaal". The name "Gyllenhaal" originated...
-
broad scheme of things,
insignificant lands,
whereas other cantons had
ennobled families abroad. In
Switzerland there were many
families of
dynasties who...
- Meeûs family,
formerly Meeûs, is a
bourgeois of
Brussels family that was
ennobled by
Leopold I. de Meeûs d'Argenteuil de Meeûs d'Argenteuil de
Trannoy In...
