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...

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...

Commission of the Nobility (French: Commission d'information et de liaison des associations nobles d'Europe, CILANE) is an organisation for cooperation of European...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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)...

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...

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

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

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

served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe before and during World War II. She was the second German woman to be awarded the honorary title of Flugkapitän...

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...

d'Olbreuse, a minor member of the French nobility and a Huguenot. George William (1624–1705), Duke of Bunswig. Henry IV of France, king of France. Louise de Coligny...

Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. At the age of 31, Reid was given medical charge of the Royal Household at Balmoral. Queen Victoria became...

nobility. In Dead Beat, he is the subject of a ritual used to instigate a Wild Hunt. A book describing the summoning is sought after by a number of necromancers...

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...

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

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...

creation of new classes, such as artisans, as well as the presence of nobility and religious elites. Scholars have also linked the emergence of representative...

tests and interviews are available for Oxbridge applicants. There are about two hundred and fifty students at Collingham. Pupils come from a range of...

emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility. 897...

felt Forbes' condition was closer to that of a transsexual, and Professor John Strong described the medical tests involved as "not wholly conclusive". Professor...

French nobility. The total population of Trinidad was 17,718, of which 2,151 were of European ancestry, 4,476 were "free blacks and people of colour"...

Dirksens were parvenu nobility, unlike the ancient Junker families, they were insecure about their social standing, and from the age of five onward, Herbert...

Peter Troake (1908–1997), Canadian mariner Peter Twiss (1921–2011), British test pilot Peter van Uhm (born 1955), Dutch general Peter Vanneck (1922–1999)...