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Styles represent the fashion by which monarchs and noblemen are properly addressed. Throughout history, many different styles were used, with little standardization. This page will detail the various styles used by royalty and nobility in Europe, in the final form arrived at in the nineteenth century.
Early modern Europe was dominated by the Wars of Religion, notably the Thirty Years' War, during which the major European monarchies developed into centralised great powers sustained by their colonial empires. The main European monarchical powers in the early modern period were: [citation needed] the Kingdom of France with its colonial empire
Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time and among geographic regions (for example, one region's prince might be equal to another's grand duke ), the following is a reasonably comprehensive list that provides information on both ...
Country Name of crown Notes Image Albania Helmet of Skanderbeg: Kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum: Belgium Heraldic Crown of Belgium: Heraldic royal crown with eight half-arches.
Europe. Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1526–1571) Kingdom of Croatia (c. 925–1102, 1527–1868) Royal Hungary (1570–1867) Kingdom of England (927–1707, ...
The Almanach de Gotha (German: Gothaischer Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country.
Adams family (U.S. politics); Astor family (U.S. politics/U.K. peerage); Bush family (U.S. politics); Coppola family; Dummer family; Du Pont family; Henry Fonda's ...
Part of a series on: Imperial, royal, noble, gentry and chivalric ranks in Europe; Emperor, Empress. dowager; Tsar, Tsarina; Kaiser; Great king, Great queen; High ...