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This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
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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.
The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the United States Constitution. The 11th Congress passed it on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. [1] It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from an "emperor, king, prince or ...
Members of a formerly sovereign or mediatized house rank higher than the nobility. Among the nobility, those whose titles derive from the Holy Roman Empire rank higher than the holder of an equivalent title granted by one of the German monarchs after 1806. In Austria, nobility titles may no longer be used since 1918. [45]
Lists of British nobility (1 C, 28 P) C. ... List of Americans who married international nobility; List of Earls of Arundel ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...
This is a list of the present and extant Barons (Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen ...
Title after marriage Birthplace International noble Country Marriage Ref. Image Mary Phinney: Baroness von Olnhausen Lexington, Massachusetts: Baron Gustav Adolph von Olnhausen Germany: May 1, 1858 [1] Antoinette Van Leer Polk: Baroness de Charette Nashville, Tennessee: Athanase Charette de la Contrie: France: October 30, 1865 [2] Jeanette Jerome