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von. Rόna. Ronai. Herman Weinberger was the chief Supply Officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1867, he was conferred the title of "Baron von Rona" by Emperor Franz Joseph. The Jewish last name (Weinberger) was later dropped, and Ronai (meaning "von Rόna") was adopted as the family name. von. Rothschild.
Hungarian baron: 1606, 1624 and 1718. The family line descending from József, Lajos, Rudolf and Lipót Apponyi, who were rewarded with the title of count in 1808, extinguished, but the other line survived. The Apponyis' hereditary seat at the Upper House of the Diet of Hungary was confirmed by Act VIII of 1886.
List of extant baronetcies. Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary to prove a claim of succession. When this has been done, the name is ...
Neck decoration for baronets of the United Kingdom, depicting the Red Hand of Ulster. A baronet (/ ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t / or / ˈ b æ r ə ˌ n ɛ t /; [1] abbreviated Bart or Bt [1]) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (/ ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t ɪ s /, [2] / ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t ɛ s /, [3] or / ˌ b æ r ə ˈ n ɛ t ɛ s /; [4] abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary ...
The Esterházy Palace in Kismarton (today Eisenstadt in Austria) - a seat of the wealthiest aristocratic family of the Kingdom of Hungary. The upper nobility (Hungarian: főnemesség, Latin: barones) was the highest stratum of the temporal society in the Kingdom of Hungary until 1946 when the Parliament passed an act that prohibited the use of noble titles, following the declaration of the ...
Sándor-Metternich mansion. The Sándor-Metternich mansion (Hungarian: Sándor–Metternich-kastély) is a classicist manor in Bajna in Esztergom County, Hungary. It lies approximately 50 kilometres northwest of Budapest. It was the main country residence of the Metternich-Sándor family. It has been restored from ruins with the help of the ...
Austrian nobility. The Austrian nobility (German: österreichischer Adel) is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility), as both countries were previously part of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806).
Royal Hungary (1526–1699), [ 10 ] (Hungarian: Királyi Magyarország, German: Königliches Ungarn), was the name of the portion of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary where the Habsburgs were recognized as Kings of Hungary [ 11 ] in the wake of the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the subsequent partition of the country.