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Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor, ennobled (Emirate of Afghanistan) Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco, by marriage (Monaco) Paul Ilyinsky, by birth (Russia) Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, by marriage (Monaco) Lee Radziwill, by marriage (Holy Roman Empire) May Stewart, Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark, by marriage (Kingdom of Greece)
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [note 1] It is one of the five divisions of Peerages in the United Kingdom. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century.
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
In the period when the institution of high kingship existed, Ireland did not conduct much formal international diplomacy. After the Anglo-Norman invasion (1169 and forward), the native kingdoms lost status over time, though, for example, the Kingdom of Tyrconnell maintained occasional international relations and exchanged ambassadors with the ...
The Irish nobility could be described as including persons who do, or historically did, fall into one or more of the following categories of nobility: Gaelic nobility of Ireland: descendants in the male line of at least one historical grade of king (Rí). Hiberno-Norman or Old English (Ireland) nobility: descendants of the colonisers who came ...
Gaelic nobility of Ireland. This article concerns the Gaelic nobility of Ireland from ancient to modern times. It only partly overlaps with Chiefs of the Name because it excludes Scotland and other discussion. It is one of three groups of Irish nobility, the others being those nobles descended from the Hiberno-Normans and those granted titles ...
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark. Zanesville, Ohio. Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark. Kingdom of Greece. February 1, 1920 – August 29, 1923 (her death) [8][9][10] Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell. Countess of Carnarvon. Portsmouth, New Hampshire.