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Ennoblement is the
conferring of nobility—the
induction of an
individual into the
noble class.
Currently only a few
kingdoms still grant nobility to people;...
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their father's titles. It was a
custom in
China for the new
dynasty to
ennoble and
enfeoff a
member of the
dynasty which they
overthrew with a
title of...
- from
cavalry officer Lieutenant Nils
Gunnarsson Haal (died 1680 or 1681),
ennobled in 1652 with a
change of name to "Gyllenhaal". The name "Gyllenhaal" originated...
- were
occasionally ennobled until the country's
defeat in the
Second World War in 1945 (新華族, shin kazoku, lit. "the
newly ennobled"). The
system was abolished...
- Carey, 1st
Baron Hunsdon (4
March 1526 – 23 July 1596).
Queen Elizabeth I
ennobled him
shortly after her
coronation and
later made a
Knight of the Garter...
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extended and
adopted as part of the
IUPAC organic nomenclature). He was
ennobled in the
Kingdom of
Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905
recipient of the Nobel...
- States, and took over the
Quirinal Palace, and any
nobles subsequently ennobled by the pope
prior to the 1929
Lateran Treaty. For the next 59 years, the...
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st
Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14
August 1922), was a
British newspaper and
publishing magnate. As
owner of...
- Carl
Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10
January 1778), also
known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a
Swedish biologist and
physician who formalised...
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Emperor Gong of Song (2
November 1271 – 1323),
personal name Zhao Xian, was the 16th
emperor of the Song
dynasty of
China and the
seventh emperor of the...
