noble titles and distinctions, see French nobility. The dates of the creation of the twelve peerages are obscure. http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france... 30 KB (70 words) - 01:19, 9 November 2023 |
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry. The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping... 34 KB (4,011 words) - 16:33, 14 April 2024 |
The Peerage of France (French: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages... 19 KB (2,352 words) - 16:45, 21 December 2023 |
The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class... 33 KB (4,281 words) - 18:05, 9 April 2024 |
The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a... 57 KB (6,508 words) - 07:50, 24 April 2024 |
Nobles of the Sword (category French nobility) The Nobles of the Sword (French: noblesse d'épée) were the noblemen of the oldest class of nobility in France dating from the Middle Ages and the early... 8 KB (1,090 words) - 03:35, 14 April 2024 |
Croatian nobility (Croatian: plemstvo, lit. 'vlastelin'; French: la noblesse) was a privileged social class in Croatia during the Antiquity and Medieval... 31 KB (3,245 words) - 09:42, 18 July 2023 |
Duke was the highest hereditary title in the French nobility during the time of the monarchy in France. The highest precedence in the realm, attached... 9 KB (1,248 words) - 04:55, 16 February 2024 |
Freiherr (section Prior to abolition of nobility) rank. The Duden orthography of the German language references the French nobility title of Baron, deriving from the Latin-Germanic combination liber... 16 KB (1,944 words) - 23:59, 21 March 2024 |
Gisela (French: Gisèle; fl. 911, possibly also Gisla) was a French princess who was married to Rollo, Duke of Normandy. It is uncertain whether Gisela... 5 KB (469 words) - 15:58, 25 April 2024 |
Imperial, royal and noble ranks (redirect from Ranks of nobility and peerage) Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time... 70 KB (9,108 words) - 06:48, 21 April 2024 |
Château (redirect from French castles) château (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto]; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry... 20 KB (2,146 words) - 20:32, 7 March 2024 |
Prince Henrik of Denmark (category French nobility) in Cahors, France. They returned to French Indochina after the war. However, they were forced to flee following the defeat of the French in the First... 44 KB (4,397 words) - 18:51, 15 April 2024 |
Louis XVI (redirect from Louis XVI, King of the French) non-Catholics as well as abolish the death penalty for deserters. The French nobility reacted to the proposed reforms with hostility, and successfully opposed... 88 KB (10,347 words) - 21:24, 18 April 2024 |
Nobles of the Robe (redirect from Nobility of the Robe) the French aristocracy after Louis XIV (Harvard U.P. 1953) Nobility and Titles in France by F. Velde Some random thoughts about the French nobility by... 7 KB (932 words) - 03:23, 14 April 2024 |
Noblesse oblige (redirect from Nobility obligates) oblige (/noʊˌblɛs əˈbliːʒ/; French: [nɔblɛs ɔbliʒ] ; literally “nobility obliges”) is a French expression that means that nobility extends beyond mere entitlement... 9 KB (1,001 words) - 09:21, 18 April 2024 |
King Charles IV of France died in 1328, his nearest male relative was his nephew, King Edward III of England, but the French nobility preferred Charles's... 24 KB (2,759 words) - 20:14, 22 March 2024 |
The Fronde (redirect from Fronde (French insurrection)) combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law courts (parlements), as well as much of the French population, and managed to subdue them all... 25 KB (3,164 words) - 02:49, 27 March 2024 |
Ancien régime (redirect from Ancien Régime France) the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through... 87 KB (10,583 words) - 18:01, 24 April 2024 |
Nobiliary particle (redirect from Nobility particle) the French nobility: for example, Maximilien de Béthune. A few do not have this particle: for example, Pierre Séguier, Lord Chancellor of France. The... 36 KB (4,926 words) - 22:35, 2 March 2024 |
Ci-devant (redirect from Ci devant nobility) the French nobility of the ancien régime (pre-Revolutionary French society) after they had lost their titles and privileges during the French Revolution... 5 KB (737 words) - 10:56, 10 March 2024 |
Duke of Beaufort (French: duc de Beaufort) was a title in the French nobility. The dukedom was first created in 1597 as a peerage for Gabrielle d'Estrées... 3 KB (186 words) - 12:53, 9 August 2022 |
House of Monpezat (category CS1 French-language sources (fr)) authors, specialists of the French nobility, do not consider that the Laborde de Monpezat family belongs to the French nobility. The Labordes were a well-to-do... 18 KB (1,874 words) - 02:52, 10 April 2024 |