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    The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) was a privileged social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on 23 June 1790 during...
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    Finnish nobility French nobility German nobility Freiherr Graf Junker Hungarian nobility Icelandic nobility Irish nobility Italian nobility Black Nobility Lithuanian...
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    the French, Napoleon I created titles in a newly established noblesse impériale (Imperial Nobility) to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire...
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    noble titles and distinctions, see French nobility. The dates of the creation of the twelve peerages are obscure. http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france...
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    created by the monarchs of France. See also French nobility, Dukes in France, Peerage of France, List of French peers, List of French peerages. http://www.heraldica...
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  • 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...
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    The Mexican nobility were a hereditary nobility of Mexico, with specific privileges and obligations determined in the various political systems that historically...
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    The Peerage of France (French: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages...
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    The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Croatian nobility (Croatian: plemstvo, lit. 'vlastelin'; French: la noblesse) was a privileged social class in Croatia during the Antiquity and Medieval...
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    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...
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    rank. The Duden orthography of the German language references the French nobility title of Baron, deriving from the Latin-Germanic combination liber...
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    The nobility of China represented the upper strata of aristocracy in premodern China, acting as the ruling class until c. 1000 CE, and remaining a significant...
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    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...
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  • Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...
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    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...
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    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...
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    non-Catholics as well as abolish the death penalty for deserters. The French nobility reacted to the proposed reforms with hostility, and successfully opposed...
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    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...
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  • oblige (/noʊˌblɛs əˈbliːʒ/; French: [nɔblɛs ɔbliʒ] ; literally “nobility obliges”) is a French expression that means that nobility extends beyond mere entitlement...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the French nobility: for example, Maximilien de Béthune. A few do not have this particle: for example, Pierre Séguier, Lord Chancellor of France. The...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Danish nobility is a social class and a former estate in the Kingdom of Denmark. The nobility has official recognition in Denmark, a monarchy. Its legal...
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