preference to nobility. Some civil, ecclesiastical, and military positions had required the holder to be sufficiently noble, with quarters of nobility being a...

various obsolete customary units of measurement Quarters of nobility or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by...

to the structure of the old regime. More than that, the decree by de Ségur, the minister of war, requiring four quarters of nobility as a condition for...

the middle children of a family, those born in between siblings, are treated or seen differently by their parents from the rest of their siblings. The...

line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate...

those traditions, such as quarters of nobility. By association with gentleman, the word can refer to: A woman of gentle birth or high social position;...

without the strict technical requirements of those traditions (such as quarters of nobility). To a degree, gentleman signified a man with an income derived from...

defined as a male relative who is a sibling of a parent or married to a sibling of a parent, as well as the parent of the cousins. Uncles who are related by...

Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among siblings, whether blood-related or not. In childhood, siblings generally spend more time together...

start of the Common Era, the family trees of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia became intertwined into the Julio-Claudian family tree as a result of marriages...

known of the members of the dynasty before Rædwald, who ruled from about 599 to c.624. The Viking invasions of the 9th century and Dissolution of the monasteries...

possessed the minimum quarters of nobility required, he was admitted as a minor canon (domizellar) by the cathedral chapter of Wurzburg Cathedral, and...

Cross, Knights of Justice (nobles with four quarters of nobility), Donats (nobles with less than four quarters), Priests, Knights of Grace (commoners)...

kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual. Examples of collateral relatives include siblings of parents or grandparents...

The known history of the monarchy of Thailand begins with the founding of the Sukhothai Kingdom, inaugurated by Si Inthrathit in 1238. This was succeeded...

four quarters of nobility. The Knights committed themselves to mutual assistance and loyalty to the order which, after the Provence became part of France...

of Suphannabhum   King of Ayutthaya   King of Lavo's Lopburi (as a frontier city of Sukhothai)   King of Suphannabhum   King of Phetchaburi   King of...

system of family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's side and father's side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property...

Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices...

other symbols instead of Thai script. The known history of the Lanna-related dynasties and rulers begins with the founding of the Ngoenyang Kingdom,...

  - Kings of Ava;   - Kings of Prome Half brother of Mindon, son of Princess Me Myat Shwe. Half brother of Pagan....

As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles in a newly established noblesse impériale [fr] (imperial nobility) to institute a stable elite in the...

Sociology of the family is a subfield of sociology in which researchers and academics study family structure as a social institution and unit of socialization...

prove 16 quarters of nobility and 10 degrees of nobility in the male line, birth in Franche-Comté, and Catholic religion. They had to be 16 years of age and...

the Tower when their regime collapsed and remained there in different quarters as prisoners. They were condemned to death for high treason in November...

grandson of Peter the Great could not be kept from his inheritance much longer. The majority of Russians and three-quarters of the nobility (especially...

(Stadtbezirk) of Dresden, Germany, incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters (Stadtteile): Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the...

Palace and addressed the Varangian Guard. Then the two of them slipped away with many of the nobility and embarked for Asia. By the next day the Doge and...

rank of female entertainers in early modern Japanese licensed quarters. Tayū were distinguished historically from other courtesans (yūjo; women of pleasure)...

the Tuareg nobility, not the artisanal client castes and the slaves. Two other Tuareg self-designations are Kel Tamasheq, meaning "speakers of Tamasheq"...