His heirs, Earls of Abercorn, heirs male of the Hamilton family from 1651, became Marquesses of Abercorn in 1790, and Dukes of Abercorn in 1868 ; the 2nd Duke of Abercorn ( b. 1838 ) being a prominent Unionist politician and chairman of the British South Africa Company.

Accordingly, the Duke of Abercorn ( the junior Duke in the Peerage of Ireland ) ranks between the Duke of Sutherland and the Duke of Westminster ( both Dukes in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ).

Hamilton was a member of the prominent Scottish family of that name and descended from John de Hamilton, younger son of Walter de Hamilton ( or Walter Fitzgilbert ), who was granted the feudal barony of Cadzow and who is also the ancestor of the Dukes of Hamilton and Dukes of Abercorn.

Hamilton was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, youngest son of Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley ( from whom the Dukes of Abercorn descend ), third son of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran ( from whom the Dukes of Hamilton descend ).

The Dukes of Hamilton and the Dukes of Abercorn have since then used the title in France, though without any legal justification.

The driving controller is also compatible with the games Destructor and Dukes Of Hazzard.

That did not come to the Sforza Dukes until 1494, when Emperor Maximilian formally invested Francesco's son, Lodovico ( also known as Ludovico Sforza ), as Duke of Milan.

The Iron Dukes are also the name of a storied armor battalion of the US Army, now 2 / 37 Armor ; formerly 2 / 67 Armor.

Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania ; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes from Jogaila onward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate.

Under Mary's marriage treaty with Philip, the official joint style reflected not only Mary's but also Philip's dominions and claims: " Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

The recusant Howard family, also known as Fitzalan-Howard, the Dukes of Norfolk, is the most prominent Catholic family in England.

He is more of a " shoot first, ask questions later " type, and is often the one to get the duo into the various scrapes in which they find themselves, although the character did mature slightly as the seasons passed ; he is also the one more likely to have his eye, or heart, distracted by a pretty girl, which proves to be the Achilles ' heel that leads the Dukes into trouble in several episode plots.

Daisy also has the distinction of having her trademark provocatively high-cut jean short shorts named after her: " Daisy Dukes ".

* The Balladeer ( voice of Waylon Jennings ) sang and played the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, " Good Ol ' Boys ", and also served as the show's narrator.

The city has one professional football club, FC Den Bosch ( first club of Dutch international player Ruud van Nistelrooy ), and is also the home to top field hockey club HC Den Bosch, basketball team EiffelTowers Den Bosch and 2008 national rugby champion The Dukes

Alberic also forged an alliance with the Dukes of Burgundy, working out a deal with Duke Odo the donation of a vineyard ( Meursault ) as well as stones with which they built their church.

The House of Billung, to which several Dukes of Saxony belonged, had Matilda's sister among its ancestors and thus also claimed descent from Widukind.

It is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a part of Dukes County, which also includes Cuttyhunk and the other Elizabeth Islands, as well as the island of Nomans Land, which is both a US Wildlife preserve, as well as a US Naval practice bombing range which continues to be controversial.

Each town also follows certain regulations from the County of Dukes County.

Elric summons others of Stormbringer ’ s demonic race ( also in the form of swords ) to fight against a number of Dukes of Hell, brought to the Young Kingdoms by Jagreen Lern, theocrat of Pan Tang.

Nevertheless one year later ( 1239 ) Henry was compelled to resign the regency, although he remained on good terms with the Dukes of Opole and Sandomierz and also managed to retain Greater Polish Kalisz and Wieluń.

In addition to his alliance with the low county Bavarians, Philip also made links with the Dukes of Austria and of Savoy, by marrying his daughter Catherine to Leopold IV of Austria, and his daughter Mary to Amadeus VIII Savoy.

See also: Dukes of Burgundy family tree

They had five sons including Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester and William Pierrepoint, Robert was also the forbear of the Dukes of Kingston-upon-Hull.

It was also a seat of several of the Dukes of Masovia and one of the capitals of that state.

* Stare Miasto (" Old Town "; also known as Śródmieście or Centrum — " the City Centre ") — the central district of Słupsk containing the historic centre of the city including the city hall and the Pomeranian Dukes ' Castle.

A scepter consisting of a gilt rod topped with a red-enameled globe topped in turn by a red-enameled Florentine Lily also formed part of the regalia of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

A sceptre consisting of a gilt rod topped with a red-enameled globe topped in turn by a red-enameled Florentine Lily also formed part of the regalia of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

The coronation of Carinthian Dukes consisted of three parts: first, a ritual in the Slovene language was performed at the Prince's Stone ; then a mass was held at the cathedral of Maria Saal (); and subsequently, a ceremony took place at the Duke's Chair (, German: ), where the new Duke swore an oath in German and where he also received the homage of the estates.

Many of the Dukes of Norfolk have also been knights of the Order of the Garter.

Coat of arms of the Counts, Dukes and Grand Dukes of LuxembourgIn these centuries the electors of Brandenburg, later kings of Prussia ( Borussia ), advanced their claim to the Luxembourg patrimony as heirs-general to William of Thuringia and his wife Anna of Bohemia, the disputed dukes of Luxembourg of the 1460s – Anna was the eldest daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress.

Duke Henry of Carinthia claimed Carniola ; and the Dukes of Austria asserted their claim as successors to the Bohemian kingdom.

The arguments are, on one side, that Louis XIV's younger grandson, Philip de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou renounced any future claim to the French throne when he left France to become king of Spain as Philip V in 1700 ( ratified internationally by the Treaty of Utrecht ), leaving the Dukes of Orléans as heirs to the throne of France in the event of extinction of descendants of Louis XIV's elder grandson, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, which occurred in 1883.

This allowed the Paganian Dukes to claim independence from Croatia, the Dalmatian city-states were retaken by the Byzantines, and Slavonia and Srijem fell to the Magyars ( although later lower Srijem was taken by Stefan Dragutin from Raska, and subsequently continued to be contested between Serbia and Hungary ).

One might also note, that Haakon's wife, Maud, as the grand-daughter of Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was descended from the medieval Dukes of Saxony, one of whom had married Wulfhild, the daughter of Olav II of Norway ; thus their son, Olav V of Norway, could claim an indesputible descend from the national saint, whose name he bore.

The Dukes of Mecklenburg pursued from 14th century a claim to inheritance in Sweden.

At the time, the Dukes of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the French royal family, with their sophisticated nobility and court culture, were the rulers of vast territories on the eastern and northern boundaries of modern-day France.

This office was confirmed in 1152 and held by the Zähringen dukes until 1218, hence they are sometimes called " Dukes of Burgundy ", although the existing Duchy of Burgundy was not an Imperial but a French fief.

After this, the House of Guise receded from its prominent position in French politics, and the senior line of the Dukes of Guise became extinct in 1688.

Both the Latin form ( Comes ) palatinus and the French ( comte ) palatin have been used as part of the full title of Dukes of Burgundy ( a branch of the French royal dynasty ) to render their rare German title Freigraf, which was the style of a ( later lost ) bordering principality, the allodial countship of Burgundy ( Freigrafschaft Burgund in German ) which came to be known as Franche-Comté.

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His descendants were the French Ducs de Fitz-James and the Spanish Duques de Liria and later the Dukes of Alba.

In particular the line of Valois Dukes of Burgundy caused considerable trouble to the French crown, with which they were often at war, often in open alliance with the English.

Caroline is a legitimate patrilineal descendant of the Dukes of Polignac, and as such belongs to the historical French nobility.

He decided to build up a castle at this location, supposedly inspired by or modeled loosely after the Château de Moulineaux, a French feudal castle built during the era of the Dukes of Normandy and associated in folklore with Robert Le Diable ( Robert the Devil ).

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Though subsequently the territory passed to the Dukes of Burgundy, Hesdin remained one of a handful of French strongholds, until in 1553 Emperor Charles V ordered the utter destruction of the old fortified town on a rise of ground and built the present town the following year, some from the original site, on the banks of the Canche.

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Category: Dukes of the First French Empire

Category: Dukes of the First French Empire

Category: Dukes of the First French Empire

There are even a few " quadruple-barrelled " surnames ( e. g. Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray ; Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax or the French / English surname Taylor-Jendernai-Eirron de Mountstuart, which is the family name for the Marquis de la Eirron ) and the surname of the extinct family of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos was the quintuple-barrelled Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville.

Before the French Revolution, Moulins was the capital of the province of Bourbonnais and the seat of the Dukes of Bourbon.

In 932, William I of Normandy ( Long-Sword ) founded the castle that was to be the residence of the Dukes of Normandy up until 1204, after which, the Norman Duchy was integrated within the French royal domain.

| Likely from the French Dukes of Vendôme

In 850, Mūsā again rose in open rebellion, supported by Pamplona, and envoys of Induo ( thought to be Íñigo ) and Mitio, " Dukes of the Navarrese ", were received at the French court.

As it was, most of the troops fighting on the side of the papacy were French, most of those fighting for the Dukes were German.

* House of Bourbon ; descendants of a younger son of Louis IX of France who, in the person of Henry IV of France inherited the throne of France from the senior Capetian line of the Valois in 1589 ; and from which sprang the Bourbon kings of Spain ( including the Carlist and French legitimist lines ), the kings of the Two Sicilies, and the sovereign Dukes of Parma, who currently reign in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in a cadet line.