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Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they ...
Howard family (English aristocracy) (9 C, 229 P) Howe family (34 P) Hungerford family (15 P) ... Category: Noble families of the United Kingdom. 25 languages ...
Name Succeeded Ended Notes Arundel: Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel: 12 February 1291 [18] 9 March 1302 [18] Great-great-grandson of the 3rd earl, William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel: 9 November 1306 [18] 17 November 1326 [18] Executed and forfeit for treason. [19] Cornwall: Edmund, 2nd Earl of ...
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.
The majority of the surviving pedigrees trace the families of Anglo-Saxon royalty to Woden.The euhemerizing treatment of Woden as the common ancestor of the royal houses is presumably a "late innovation" within the genealogical tradition which developed in the wake of the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons.
Recognition of Norwegian noble titles was gradually abolished by the Nobility Law of 1821. Persons who in 1821 possessed such titles were allowed to keep them for their lifetimes. There exists no law that prohibits private use of noble titles. Such privately adopted titles lack official recognition. Noble names enjoy no particular legal protection.
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Blagden's name is an Old English name meaning "the dark/black valley". [3] The five creatures of the Beor mountains are five unique species living only in the mountain range, for which five dwarf clans are named. [10] Feldûnost are large goat-like creatures used as mounts and to produce dairy. Their name means "frostbeard" in the dwarf ...