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Patent of nobility, an illuminated manuscript with the assigned coat of arms and the imperial seal (Wappen der Grafen von Waldkirch, 1792). The patent of nobility, also letters of nobility (always pl.), or diploma of nobility documented the legal act of ennoblement (granting rights of a nobleman to a "new man" and his family).
If the parameter |house-type= is set it alters the display of the label next to the |noble family= parameter. Instead of displaying the default "Noble family" (with a link to the article Nobility), the link is change to whatever the |house-type= is set to and the word "Family" is displayed in place of "Noble family".
In genealogy, the progenitor (rarer: primogenitor; German: Stammvater or Ahnherr) is the – sometimes legendary – founder of a family, line of descent, clan or tribe, noble house, or ethnic group. [1] Genealogy (commonly known as family history) understands a progenitor to be the earliest recorded ancestor of a consanguineous family group of ...
Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they ...
The Assembly of Nobles (Swedish: Adelsmötet) is the principal decision-making body of the House of Nobility.It convenes every three years at the Palace of the Nobility in Stockholm to make decisions regarding the management of the properties and foundations under the ownership of the House of Nobility, the affairs of the nobility and the budget of the House.
Quarters of nobility is an expression used in the bestowal of hereditary titles, and refers to the number of generations in typically an ahnentafel, in which noble status has been held by a family regardless of whether a title was actually in use by each person in the ancestral line in question.
It is generally supposed, though without certain evidence, that the currently existing Charette family shares a common origin with a family of the same name that, during the Middle Ages, owned the noble house of Trévignet, in the parish of La Chapelle-sous-Ploërmel."
The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.