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The nobility of the four constituent home nations and crown dependencies therefore has played a major role in shaping the history of the British Isles, and remnants of this nobility exist throughout the UK's social structure and institutions. Traditionally, the British nobility rank directly below the British royal family.
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.
Location Type Local government Charters Charter lapsed Notes Berkshire: Royal county County council (1889–1998) 6 unitary authorities (1998–) 1957, [3] 1974 [4] [5] — Location of Windsor Castle: Greenwich: Royal borough London borough council 2012 — To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
This is a list of estates of nobility in the county of Derbyshire in England. [1] It includes current and former family seats of the Peerage of England . The list is ordered by rank of the English peerage in descending order: Duke , Marquess , Earl , Viscount , Baron and Baronet .
The early law codes of Kent use the Old English word eorl (' high born ', ' noble ') to describe a nobleman. By the 8th century, the word gesith (' companion '; Latin: comes) had replaced eorl as the common term for a nobleman. [3] [4]
Only those classified within the social class of royalty and upper nobility have a style of "Highness" attached before their titles. Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, reigning princes, reigning dukes, and princely counts, their families, and the agnatic (of the male bloodline) descendants of emperors and kings.
The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when the pedestal was carved by Joshua Marshall. [18] Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2: John Bushnell: Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1671 John Bushnell: Intended for the Royal Exchange. [19] Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1861–4 Thomas Thornycroft