It is mentioned by various writers from the fourth century onwards, notably by Pope Gregory the Great, to whose influence may ultimately be due the frequent occurrence of it in Bibles written in England ; for it is commoner in English Bibles than in others.

There is a strong aristocratic bias in the poems demonstrated by the lack of any major protagonists of non-aristocratic stock, and by episodes such as the beating down of the commoner Thersites by the king Odysseus for daring to criticize his superiors.

Another event occurring late in the war is also credited with having played a major part in Antonescu's life: in 1918, Crown Prince Carol ( the future King Carol II ) eloped and technically deserted his army posting, to marry the commoner Zizi Lambrino.

Generally, this is a marriage between a man of high birth ( such as from a reigning, deposed or mediatised dynasty ), and a woman of lesser status ( such as from a commoner or low-ranked noble family ).

If an individual without a peerage is neither the Sovereign nor other royalty, s / he is a commoner.

For example, Peter Philips, son of HRH The Princess Royal is a commoner even though his mother is a princess and his grandmother, The Queen.

He has no title, therefore, he is a commoner.

Such an heir apparent is called a courtesy peer, but is a commoner until such time as he inherits ( unless summoned by a writ in acceleration ).

" It is said that this practice was initiated by Liu Bang 劉邦, the founder of the Han Dynasty, in emulation of Ying Zheng ( who granted his own father the title posthumously once he took on the new title of Huangdi 皇帝 for himself ), because Liu Bang would not be bowed to by his own father, who was still technically a commoner.

However, in accepting his inevitable death, de Boeldieu takes comfort in the idea that " For a commoner, dying in a war is a tragedy.

The titles are courtesy titles, in that the holder is not deemed thereby to hold a peerage, and is a commoner, according to Law of the United Kingdom.

The rank of baron is the most ancient degree of English nobility and a commoner who is raised directly to a high degree in the peerage, for example a former prime minister who becomes an Earl, is always created a baron at the same time, from historic precedent.

Despite her earlier promise, Jeanette recoils from him and runs to her room on hearing that he is a commoner.

But it is also a flashback within a flashback, because the accounts of the witnesses are being retold by a woodcutter and a priest to a ribald commoner as they wait out a rainstorm in a ruined gatehouse.

Since Homer, in the Iliad, makes no reference to his ancestry ( except to note that he is the son of Panthous ( Πάνθοος ) and Phrontis ( Φροντίς ), he is apparently a commoner, or in any event not a member of the royal house of Troy.

A commoner joins them and they tell him that they've witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin recounting to him.

As a member of the Borten government he faced the constitutional question of the marriage of the then Crown Prince Harald to a commoner, Sonja Haraldsen.

Since then, commoners as well as peers have been appointed to the post of Lord Chancellor ; however, until the 21st-century changes to the office, a commoner would normally have been created a peer shortly after his appointment.

Furthermore, if a daughter of a peer marries a commoner, then she retains her precedence as a daughter of a peer.

In 1822 he went to a school at Southwell, then to one at Risley, and in 1825 to Winchester as a commoner.

However, in 5 BC, after Empress Dowager Fu was more successful in her quest for titles — Emperor Ai removed the qualification " of Dingtao " from his father's posthumous title ( thus making him simply " Emperor Gong "), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title ( ditaitaihou ( 帝太太后 ), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title taihuangtaihou ( 太皇太后 )) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title ( ditaihou ( 帝太后 ), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title huangtaihou ( 皇太后 )) -- the prime minister Zhu Bo ( 朱博 ) and vice prime minister Zhao Xuan ( 趙玄 ), at her behest, submitted a petition to have Wang demoted to commoner status for having opposed Grand Empress Fu previously.

In 1193, according to the chronicler Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Theodore became the lover of the dowager empress Anna, then aged 22 ; they did not marry because in marrying a commoner she would have lost her dowry.

November 16, 1951: Matrika Prasad Koirala then President of Nepali Congress, nominated by H. M. the King as the Prime Minister-the first commoner Prime Minister under the democratic set up.

If anyone murders a man in a rampage, and the villain is not being sought, then the community where the victim's head lies pays a vera ( fee to the knyaz ) of 80 grivnas ; or be he a commoner, then 40 grivnas ( note: this was a fortune ; a horse cost two grivnas, and a serf 1 / 2 grivna ).

He then humiliated the Saxon aristocracy by enacting a law that the killing of one of them would be no more costly in wergild than the killing of a commoner.

But refusing to comply with the Corpse Brigade's demands for the sake of a commoner, Zalbaag explicitly orders the cadet Argath to shoot Tietra and then Gragoroth, a pivotal event in the story of Final Fantasy Tactics witnessed both by Ramza and Delita.

27 days after Prince He was deposed, Liu Bingyi, who then was a commoner with no titles, became emperor ( later known as Emperor Xuan ).

Xiong Xin was a grandson of King Huai of Chu, and was living as a commoner then.

Around 55 years before the main Bleach storyline, Byakuya married Hisana, who was then a commoner from Inuzuri, one of the poorest districts of Rukongai ; therefore, he broke the rules by accepting her into the noble Kuchiki family.

For example, a commoner brought before a local magistrate would be required to kneel and kowtow.

Members of the highest ranking class, called Suns, are thought to have been required to marry only members of the lowest commoner class, called Stinkards or commoners.

Noble knights came from the ranks of the infanzones or lower nobles, whereas the commoner knights were not noble, but were wealthy enough to afford a horse.

The axillaries and underwing coverts are white, whereas in the commoner bird they are mottled with grey.

The aged Vizier Ay sidelined Horemheb's claim to the throne and instead succeeded Tutankhamun likely because Horemheb was in Asia with the army ( no objects belonging to Horemheb was found in Tutankhamun's tomb whereas items donated by other high-ranking officials such as Maya and Nakhtmin were found in tomb KV62 by Egyptologists in the 20th century ) and because Tutankhamun's queen, Ankhesenamun, refused to marry Horemheb, a commoner, and make him the next king of Egypt.

For example, a dwarf noble begins the game as part of the dwarven royal family, whereas in the dwarf commoner origin, the player starts as a " lowborn " living in poverty.

For example: a hero proposes a journey to a dangerous place / he disguises himself / his disguise fools everybody / except for a common person of little account ( a crone, a tavern maid or a woodcutter ) / who immediately recognizes him / the commoner becomes the hero's ally, showing unexpected resources of skill or initiative.

The title of curule is quite peculiar because this distinction signifies that that person is a patrician, or upper classman, rather than a plebeian, or commoner.

In popular usage, a commoner is a person who does not belong to royalty or aristocracy: in other words, someone who is not a member of a peer's family.

He was admitted as a commoner on 15 June 1723, and matriculated on 18 June ; the records say that he came from Bath rather than Perth, because the person recording the names of the new students was unable to understand his Scottish accent.

In both cases there is a successful detection team composed of a nobleman and a commoner, with a built-in social hierarchy tempered by a strong and long-lasting personal friendship ; in both cases, the commoner partner is an extremely capable and competent person, highly appreciated by his socially-superior noble partner ; and in both cases, the partnership started as a wartime relationship between an officer and an NCO, and carried over into civilian life.

A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is called a commoner.

Historically most rights of common were appurtenant to tenancies of particular plots of land held within a manor, and the commoner would be the person who, for the time being, was the occupier of a particular plot of land ( or in the case of turbary, even a particular heath ).

A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is called a commoner.