The court ranks of Japan, also known in Japanese as ikai (位階), are indications of an individual's court rank in Japan based on the system of the state...

Wohlgeboren List of Japanese court ranks, positions and hereditary titles History of Russian military ranks In case of "His/Her Majesty's highest of all protégé"...

Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are nobility titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular...

common honorary titles include Knighthood, Damehood, and Companion of Honour. These titles are granted by the monarch and are not hereditary. The word monarch...

system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles, composed of various ranks, and within the framework of the Constitution of the United Kingdom form...

Cardinal Cushing – or clerical titles such as Archbishop). Some titles are hereditary. Titles include: Honorific titles or styles of address, a phrase used to...

titles, the highest ranks of the aristocracy, by being adopted into the Konoe family and formally becoming an aristocrat. He then passed the position...

offices of their counts and viscounts from becoming hereditary, in order to consolidate their position and limit chance of rebellion. The title was in...

no definite noble titles (titles of hereditary rulers being distinct from those of hereditary intermediaries between monarchs and commoners). Persons...

importance and popularity of sumo during the Edo period, many hereditary lines of referees became codified, and some sought the patronage of the House of Yoshida...

The ranks of imperial consorts have varied over the course of Chinese history but remained important throughout owing to its prominence in the management...

the court rank of grandee, which has precedence over all other noble titles. The last non-royal hereditary dukedom created was the title of Duke of Suárez...

prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government and the highest political position of Japan. The prime...

Unlike noble titles in the European and Japanese aristocracies, which were conferred on a hereditary basis, the bureaucratic position of yangban was granted...

conferred non-hereditary courtly or civic roles. The noble titles that were in use on its territory were mostly of foreign provenance and usually subject...

judicial domains. The succession of monarchs has mostly been hereditary, often building dynasties. However, elective and self-proclaimed monarchies have...

daughters being known as dayang-dayang ("princess of the first degree"). All of these titles are strictly hereditary. Below the royal nobility are the provincial...

for "knight", is a hereditary noble title in the Netherlands. It is the lowest title within the nobility system and ranks below that of "Baron" but above...

Horse, Cavallerizzo Maggiore, or Hereditary Superintendent of the Stables of the Palaces, was a hereditary position held by the Marquess Serlupi Crescenzi...

because of the structure of society. In many countries, the term upper class was intimately associated with hereditary land ownership and titles. Political...

and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is favored for official uses, including on Japanese...

family's hereditary titles. While titles such as emperor, king, and elector could only be legally occupied by one dynast at a time, holders of such other...

beginning of the Heian period, which lasted until 1185. The Heian period is considered a golden age of classical Japanese culture. Japanese religious...

"high families") during the Edo period in Japan generally referred to the hereditary position of the "Master of Ceremonies", held by certain fief-less samurai...

Bernadotte, Carl Gustaf has also been able to make a number of decisions about the titles and positions of its members. In June 1976, Carl Gustaf married Silvia...

Samurai (侍、さむらい) were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition...

Peninsula, some members of the Jeonju Yi clan were incorporated into the Imperial House of Japan and the Japanese peerage by the Japanese government. This lasted...

hereditary in certain feudal families in the Empire and the title came to be borne by rulers of some Imperial principalities until the abolition of the...

by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility since...

several official titles in various branches of society. As marshals became trusted members of the courts of Medieval Europe, the title grew in reputation...