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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...
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during colonial times. In 1738 Sebastião José de
Carvalho e Melo,
later ennobled as 1st
Marquis of Pombal,
began a
career as the
Portuguese Amb****ador in...
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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...
- 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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through this
marriage with
musical theater storytelling, and in the process,
ennobles the
culture and the creators." A
review in The
Economist summed up the...
- administration, the princes,
consorts of the
imperial princesses, and
ennobled relatives did
staff the
Imperial Clan Court,
which supervised the imperial...
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Mexico City. The
elevation of
silver mining as a
profession and the
ennoblement of
silver miners was a
development of the eighteenth-century Bourbon...
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including Latin, and traveller. She was the
first woman in
Sweden to have been
ennobled for her own
actions (1691). Born in Nyköping, Sweden, she was the child...
