Nobility Articles

Famous Examples of the Purported Sale of Bought Noble TitlesHistorical Facts told with a Sense of Humour, only for the minority able to appreciate it How an Armenian Diamond Trader bought a Noble Title of Marquis in Italy. How a Russian Aristocrat acquired an Italian...

The Turkish Nobility was a very powerful, ancient and international social class that helped the sultans rule the Ottoman Empire for nearly five centuries, from 1453 till 1918. Origins of the Turkish Nobility and Royalty The legendary origin of the dynastic royal...

A complete list and dictionary of Royal and Nobility Titles, Ranks, and Styles of all the Nobility, Royalty, Diplomacy and Clergy in the World Titles and Ranks A-D Aartbisschop/Dutch/= Archbishop/Style: Zijne (Hoogerwaarde) Excellentie (=His MostReverend Excellence)...

History and Genealogy of the Afghan Nobility The Afghan Nobility has ethnic Indo-European origins and a strong link with Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire. The land called Afghanistan today has a long history. In the prehistory, the Palaeolithic people in the...

The Polish and Lithuanian Nobility, whose proper and original name is Szlachta, certainly was a legally demarcated state with extensive legal rights. The Szlachta was a lawfully privileged and elite order, and no member of this nobility was a commoner at law. The...

Britanny is one of the most interesting regions for the research and acquisition of Noble titles such as Feudal Lordships, Baronies, and exceptionally, titles of Count, Viscount and Marquis. It is of special interest to Anglo-Saxons in general and British people in...

Here is a list of most of the French nobility families, owners of French wines, including some important foreigners from Germany and Belgium, and also some historical noble families involved in elections and politics within the system of the French Republic. List of...

Most of the scholarly sources relating to Estonia and Latvia do not elucidate visibly how these countries were termed in ancient times. Livonia is the initial name of Estonia and when the Teutonic Order of Livonia, who succeeded the Order of the Brethren of the Sword...

The Nobility of Venice is an integral part of the reality of the Venetian state, which is born and consolidated over a thousand years, is a striking anomaly in the European context and a unique phenomenon among all the historical profiles of its age. First of all,...

The Claimants to the Kingdoms of Jerusalem, Armenia and Cyprus Jerusalem was the centre of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099 until the Mameluke conquered it in 1291. The title of King of Jerusalem was mainly used and claimed by the Hapsburg of Austria, the...

The general characteristics of the Sardinian Nobility: The concept of nobility The Nobility of Sardinia was a social class that had in its hands all the power and almost all the wealth of the kingdom, at least until the twentieth century, and thus exercised a decisive...

The Nobility of Hungary: The Nobility of Hungary possess very remarkable differential features: Religious Divide between Protestants and Catholics Hate-Love relationship with the Hapsburg Empire Strongly Different Ethnical Origin based on the Turanian Magyar People...

His Majesty the King Dom Joao VI, creator of the Brazilian Nobility, reigned in Brazil 1815-1822) and was the first ever to grant nobility titles: as sometimes in Portugal, the Brazilin noble titles were mostly life titles and were very seldom renewed or confirmed in...

The nobility was officially abolished in china in 1949. It may be old-fashioned to study Chinese nobility titles when China abandoned monarchy categorically in 1924 and all such minor rights were positively eradicated or ignored by The Chinese Socialist Republic....