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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.
The households of medieval kings were in many ways simply aristocratic households on a larger scale: as the Burgundian court chronicler Georges Chastellain observed of the splendidly ordered court of the dukes of Burgundy, "after the deeds and exploits of war, which are claims to glory, the household is the first thing that strikes the eye, and ...
The aristocratic pedigree of terraced housing, for example as survives in St James's Square in Westminster, is widely forgotten. In concept, the aristocratic townhouse is comparable to the hôtel particulier, which notably housed the French nobleman in Paris, as well as to the urban domus of the nobiles of Ancient Rome.
Greywell Hill House, Hampshire: Heron Court: Earl of Morley: Pound House, Devon: Saltram House: Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire and Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent: Classiebawn Castle: Earl of Mount Edgcumbe: Empacombe House, Cornwall: Mount Edgcumbe House: Earl of Onslow: Clandon Park: Earl of Oxford (Title ...
Those houses receive a different name depending on the geographical region of Spain where they are located, the noble rank of the owner family, the size of the house and/or the use that the family gave to them. In Spain many old manor houses, palaces, castles and grand homes have been converted into a Parador hotel.
House of Douglas and Angus (3 C, 180 P) Drummond family (1 C, 48 P) Dudley family (2 C, 33 P) ... Howard family (English aristocracy) (9 C, 229 P) Howe family (34 P)
Pharaoh, "Man of the Great House (Palace)" used in Ancient Egypt to denote the kings of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt in the Nile river valley. Faama, title of the rulers of the pre-imperial Mali, meaning "king". Mansa, title of the rulers of the Mali Empire; Omanhene or Ohene, an Akan title meaning King of the Nation, with Ohene simply meaning King.
The House of Lords is the upper legislature of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is filled with members that are selected from the aristocracy (both hereditary titleholders and those ennobled only for their individual lives). Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.