• H.Ill.H.) is the usual English-language translation of the German word Erlaucht, a style historically attributed to certain members of the European nobility...
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  • (Furstenbank); and the comital houses that were accorded the address of Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness), which previously possessed a vote in one of the...
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  • the same way. The correct term for immediate counts (Reichsgrafen) is Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness"), while the proper form of address for princes...
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  • and countesses bear the style of Illustrious Highness (HIllH, German: Erlaucht). In addition to their national royal styles, many monarchs have or had...
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  • Holy Roman Empire (reichsständische Fürsten), as "Illustrious Highness (Erlaucht) became customary for those of the comital houses (reichsständische Grafen...
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  • sometimes of members of the house of Fürsten (if bearing the title "Prinz") Erlaucht for the heads of semi-sovereign comital houses (the mediatised counts of...
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    Serene Highness), princes to Durchlaucht (Serene Highness) and counts to Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness). Imperial States enjoyed several rights and privileges...
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    conferring upon her, along with the Battenberg countship, the style of Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness), usually reserved in Germany for counts of mediatized...
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  • (abbreviation HIllH, oral address Your Illustrious Highness, German: Seine/Ihre Erlaucht); Italian: Sua Altezza Illustrissima; Spanish: Su Ilustrísima; Russian:...
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    of Battenberg in 1851, with the style of Illustrious Highness (German: Erlaucht). In 1858, she was elevated to Princess of Battenberg, with the style of...
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  • extinct. Mediatized counts (Reichsgrafen) were entitled to the style of Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness), while others bore the style of Hochgeboren (High...
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    above, beyond or greater than illustrious, as it is an augmentation of Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness"), which was accorded to immediate counts (Reichsgrafen)...
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  • Hochadel, the heads of their families being entitled to be addressed as Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness"), rather than simply as Hochgeboren ("High-born")...
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  • nobility, ranking just below the sovereign and mediatised dynasties; - Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness), the correct address for those German immediate...
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    Austrian nobility. The elder branch additionally later bore the style Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness") with the title of Prince de Bétha. This is signified...
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    Erlaucht Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont Minister-President of the Austrian Empire In office 4 April 1848 – 4 May 1848 Monarch Ferdinand I Preceded by...
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    Mediatized counts were often entitled to the style of "Illustrious Highness" (Erlaucht). Ranking below them were the comital families of ancient lineage, wealth...
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  • (mediate Counts; immediate counts or Reichsgrafen are entitled to the address Erlaucht) and those Freiherren descending from the mediæval Uradel. Another honorific...
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    not internationally recognised, nor was their head granted the style of Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness) and they were omitted from Section II of the Almanach...
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    Lippe-Biesterfeld family was given the style Illustrious Highness (German: Erlaucht) at Detmold on 27 August and 1 October 1844. When, in 1895, the mentally...
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    (Count) or Gräfin (Countess) von Clary und Aldringen and were styled as Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness). During the Napoleonic Wars, the family's Teplitz...
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  • W. Gerlach: Trauerrede, gesprochen am 19. August 1875 am Sarge Ihrer Erlaucht, der verwitweten, regierenden Gräfin-Mutter, Frau Louise, Auguste, Henriette...
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