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  2. Imperial, royal and noble ranks - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Aristocracy (class) - Wikipedia

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    The aristocracy [1] is historically associated with a "hereditary" or a "ruling" social class. In many states, the aristocracy included the upper class of people (aristocrats) with hereditary rank and titles. [2] In some, such as ancient Greece, ancient Rome, or India, aristocratic status came from belonging to a military class. It has also ...

  4. List of family seats of English nobility - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.

  5. British nobility - Wikipedia

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    The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles.. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.

  6. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Majority rule or parliamentary sovereignty vs. bill of rights or arbitrary rules with separation of powers and supermajority rules to prevent tyranny of the majority and protect minority rights; Rule according to higher law (unwritten ethical principles) vs. written constitutionalism; Separation of church and state or free church vs. state religion

  7. Category:Nobility - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the nobility, a social class normally ranked immediately below royalty and found in some societies that have a formal aristocracy.Nobility is an estate of the realm that possesses more acknowledged privilege and higher social status than most other classes in society.

  8. List of noble houses - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. History of the British peerage - Wikipedia

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    The historian David Crouch defined baron as "the greatest men in the aristocracy (whether they were earls, barons or not), men habitually at court, lords of great estates, those indeed whom the king consulted in the affairs of the realm". [22] The fiefs of earls and barons were called "honours". The honours were not compact territorial units.