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The Marquisate of Mantua began with Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga who, with the payment of 12,000 gold florins, in 1433 was appointed first marquis by the Emperor Sigismund, of whom he had married his niece Barbara of Brandenburg with his eldest son, Ludovico III Gonzaga.
Authentic titles are understood to mean titles erected by letters patent of the Sovereign (the King, or the Emperor Napoleon III, or possibly a foreign sovereign whose lands have become French), registered or published with a court of justice or sovereign (parliament, court of auditors, etc.), or even subordinate, which gives them a legal and permanent status.
The name "frangipani" comes from a 16th-century marquis of the noble Frangipani family in Italy, who created a synthetic plumeria-like perfume. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Common names for plants in the genus vary widely according to region, variety, and whim, but frangipani or variations on that theme are the most common.
Lantana (/ l æ n ˈ t ɑː n ə,-ˈ t eɪ-/) [2] is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian - Pacific region, South and Northeastern part of India.
The Marquesas Islands (/ m ɑːr ˈ k eɪ s ə s / mar-KAY-səss; French: Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua ʻEnana (North Marquesan) and Te Fenua ʻEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Marquis of Sá da Bandeira; Marquis of Sabugosa; Marquis of Saldanha; Marquis of Sande; Marquis of Santa Cruz; Marquis of Santa Iria; Marquis of Santarém; Marquis of São Lourenço; Marquis of São Miguel; Marquis of São Paio; Marquis of Sesimbra; Marquis of Soydos; Marquis of Soure; Marquis of Sousa Holstein; Marquis of Soveral
He was born at Carrión de los Condes in Old Castile to a noble family which figured prominently in the arts. His grandfather, Pedro González de Mendoza I, and his father, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Admiral of Castile, were both poets with close ties to the great literary figures of the time: Chancellor Lopez de Ayala, Fernán Pérez de Guzmán and Gómez Manrique.
Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt; François César Le Tellier, Marquis of Courtanvaux; Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye; Philippe-Claude de Montboissier de Beaufort; Gabriel-Jacques de Salignac de La Motte, marquis de Fénelon; Louis Guy Henri de Valori; Jean-Baptiste François des Marets, marquis de Maillebois; Jules-Albert de Dion