reprobation/reprimand/censure of nobility, also translated by Norman Davies as Test of Nobility was a legal procedure of the revocation of nobility in the Polish–Lithuanian...

royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristics associated with nobility may...

I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts federal...

Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total...

thereof) according to the Law of Arms may be admitted to the organisation. The AFGB utilises the same test of nobility as the Order of Malta, which equates the...

called a prova di nobiltà, a "test of nobility". This was particularly required of Venetian colonial elite in outlying regions of the Venetian thalassocracy...

accepts a real duel. Each Duelist was given a rose crest ring by the End of the World. Utena also has a rose crest, but hers came from a prince she met...

This is a list of fictional nobility that have appeared in various works of fiction. This list is organized by noble rank and limited to well-referenced...

test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer, or in a predetermined area that requires a test taker to demonstrate or perform a set of skills...

a test of nobility is required by an organisation such as a nobility association or an order of chivalry. As official grants of hereditary nobility are...

lowest grantable rank of nobility, and the basic unit of rank progression. For example, a yunjiwei who received another grant of yunjiwei became a jiduwei...

James II, effective head of the Catholic nobility, at whom it was largely aimed. In Scotland, a religious test was imposed immediately after the Reformation...

McMahon, footballer (Middlesbrough FC) Trevor McMahon (born 1929), New Zealand Test cricketer Vincent McMahon (cricketer) (1918–1988), Australian cricketer Wade...

False titles of nobility or royal title scams are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without...

the St. Louis Cardinals Otto Merz (1889–1933), chauffeur, race car driver, test driver and mechanic Otto Fahr (1892–1969), backstroke swimmer Christian Werner...

1469, and Malta became part of the Spanish Empire. Meanwhile, Malta's administration fell in the hands of local nobility who formed a governing body called...

was a lady at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Anne Knollys was the third daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1514–1596)...

Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1928. She was also Dame of Grace of the Order of Saint John (DGStJ) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of the...

foreign monarchies and the nobility, based on the maintenance of the feudal regime. This alliance prevented the emergence of an active, enterprising bourgeoisie...

"the Spanish equivalent of Francis Drake". He was declared a Caballero hidalgo in 1725 and obtained certification of nobility and royal arms in 1727....

territories. The classes of the order became Knight, Commander, Commander by Number, and Grand Cross. The concession and tests of nobility was suppressed in...

duties. However, with the exodus of part of the nobility, the Fabrique automatically lost a significant portion of its clientele. The crisis set in with...

member of the school's Motor Club, along with John Cunningham, who would later be famous as an RAF night fighter ace and test pilot. Towards the end of her...

undertaken by Martín de Garay but failed in the face of opposition from privileged classes—nobility and clergy—as well as from peasants, who rejected the...

respectively for 150 commoners and 17 Drabants of higher ranks—which de facto became the nominal size. While the nobility of Sweden and Livonia was strongly represented...

In the following January he was killed in an air accident while flight-testing the new Renard R.36 fighter. As a bobsledder he competed in the 1936 Winter...

played a part in the early development of television broadcasting. On 30 March 1930, experimental television tests were made there using thirty-line pictures...

former fashion model and former wife of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Catherine Victoria Lockwood...

translation posed multiple challenges: Georgian lacks equivalents for European nobility and clergy titles due to different social and religious traditions, requiring...

Eugen Simion, who sees Dauș as one of the Sburătorists who mainly contributed "utterly commonplace" poems, testing Lovinescu's patience. Within this club...