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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The
House of
Lichnowsky or
House of Lichnovský is the name of an
influential Czech aristocratic family of
Silesian and
Moravian origin, do****ented since...
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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...
- Gryfita-Świebodzic
family as well as
families connected with the Clan by
adoption at
ennoblement or even by error.
Leszek III,
legendary Prince of Poland, 805?, had 14...
- pagan Polish. Lot of
families were
later legally adopted into the clan or
ennobled with this coat of arms, some
misattributed to the clan by
similarity of...
- authority, not the Pope or tradition. sola
nobilitat virtus virtue alone ennobles Similar to
virtus sola
nobilitas solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris...
