The Lords of Sanneck Castle were elevated to comital status by Emperor Louis IV in 1341 at Munich, and received the title Cylie or Cilli derived from name of the Celje Castle in Lower Styria.

Part of their coat of arms-the three golden stars on a blue background, which, as Lords of Sanneck, they had inherited from the once powerful Carinthian Counts of Heunburg in 1322-was incorporated into the Emblem of Yugoslavia in 1920s and the Slovenian coat of arms in 1991.

Counts of Cilli in the structure of the Holy Roman EmpireThe Lords of Sanneck ( Žovnek ) or Barons of Soune

Prime Ministers have taken office because they were members of either the Commons or Lords, and either inherited a majority in the Commons or won more seats than the opposition in a general election.

Lord Burlington was succeeded in the earldom of Cork and the other remaining titles by his third cousin John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery, who became the fifth Earl of Cork as well ( he was descended from the third son of the first Earl of Cork, and had also inherited the titles of Baron Broghill and Baron Boyle of Marston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, thus a seat in the British House of Lords until 1999 ( see the Earl of Orrery for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

The Lenzburg lands were inherited by the Counts of Kyburg and Frohburg, the Lords of Rapperswil and the Habsburgs.

He regained it in 1950, but the following year he left the Commons when, on the death of his father, he inherited the earldom of Home and thereby became a member of the House of Lords.

He in 1894 inherited the Earldom Grey from his uncle and thereafter took his place in the House of Lords, while simultaneously undertaking business ventures around the British Empire.

They retained a handful of seats in local councils scattered around Britain, but the CPGB's only representative in Parliament was in the House of Lords, gained when Wogan Philipps, the son of a ship-owner and a long standing member of the CPGB, inherited the title of Lord Milford when his father died in 1963.

In 1868, on the death of his father, he inherited the Marquessate of Salisbury, thereby becoming a member of the House of Lords.

The Peerage Act 1963 ( 1963 c. 48 ) is the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted peeresses in their own right and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and which allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be " disclaimed ".

After his father's death in 1761 he inherited his title and was elevated to the House of Lords and took an active role in politics.

The members of the House of Lords traditionally inherited their seats from their fathers.

He helped devise the institution of the title baronet as a means for King James I to raise funds: like a peerage, a baronetcy could be inherited but, like a knighthood, it gave the holder no seat in the House of Lords.

He unexpectedly inherited his title from his great-uncle in 1894 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday the following year.

However, in 1663, the House of Lords decided that peers who inherited a title not be introduced.

All hereditary peers of the first creation ( i. e., those for whom a peerage was originally created, as opposed to those who inherited a peerage from an ancestor ), and all surviving hereditary peers who had served as Leader of the House of Lords were offered a life peerage in order to allow them to sit in the House should they so choose.

For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats ; the Act removed such a right.

At his father's death in 1954, he inherited the title of Viscount Norwich, created for Duff Cooper in 1952, which made him a member of the British House of Lords.

He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1962 to 1970, and serves in the House of Lords, having inherited the title of Baron Avebury in 1971.

Aside from these, her only other notable possessions are a clock that she inherited from her mother and a silver tea service with a cream jug in the shape of a humorous cow ( later melted down to make horseshoes for a Unicorn during the events of Lords and Ladies ).

In any case, as the peerage title he had was inherited, it did not debar him from retaining his Canadian citizenship, and he never bothered to take up his right to a seat in the pre-1999 House of Lords.

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth KT, PC ( 8 July 1849 – 15 September 1909 ) was a British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords.

It was suggested that more judges be appointed to the House of Lords, but it was not desired that their descendants continue to sit by virtue of the peerages they would have inherited had the judges been created hereditary peers.

After the House of Lords Act 1999 passed, several hereditary peers of the first creation, who had not inherited their titles but would still be excluded from the House of Lords by the Act, were created life peers: Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington ; Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale ; Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and 1st Baron Pakenham ; and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon.

A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.

However, the Lords Spiritual mustered in unusually large numbers, and of twenty-two present, twenty-one voted against the Bill.

The ministers believed that they were left with only one alternative: to create a large number of new peerages, swamping the House of Lords with pro-reform votes.

After the election, the King suggested a compromise whereby only 50 peers from each side would be allowed to vote, which would also redress the large Unionist majority in the Lords, but Lord Crewe, Liberal leader in the Lords, advised that this would reduce the Lords ' independence as only peers who were loyal party supporters would be picked.

In October 2005, the House of Lords dismissed the Alliance's appeal against this decision, with an unusually large panel of nine Law Lords holding that the 1949 Act was a valid Act of Parliament.

Contrary to British constitutional convention, the Conservatives used their large majority in the Lords to vote down the Budget.

Argument in the case was heard on 13 and 14 July 2005 by a large committee of nine Law Lords, rather than the normal five.

She brought with her a large retinue of Scottish gentlemen, including the Earls of Huntly, Cassillis, Sutherland, Marischal, and Wigtown, plus Lords Home and Maxwell, and the Bishops of Caithness and Galloway.

He also received the support of the House of Lords, which passed supportive motions, and many messages of support from the country at large, in the form of petitions approving of his appointment which influenced some Members to switch their support to Pitt.

The recorded history of the area goes back to the days of English settlements and the land grants of the Lords Proprietors, when large portions of the Waccamaw Neck were divided into baronies that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River.

In a broadcast interview at WNUR Northwestern University radio station in Evanston, IL in 1984, Stiv Bators of the Lords of the New Church and the Dead Boys confirmed the long-standing rumor that it was he who had provided the peanut butter, having carried a large tub from his home in Youngstown, OH and handing it up to Iggy from the audience.

Any member of either House can put down a motion that an Instrument should be annulled, although in the Commons unless the motion is signed by a large number of Members, or is moved by the official Opposition, it is unlikely to be debated, and in the Lords they are seldom actually voted upon.

As in the English and British parliaments, the House of Lords was presided over by the Lord Chancellor, who sat on the Woolsack, a large seat stuffed with wool from each of the three kingdoms, England, Ireland and Scotland.

* Pontifices: A Pontifex oversees a large region, such as parts of a nation or groupings of smaller countries and islands, and in turn oversees seven Lords.

As the Lady Young she was appointed Leader of the House of Lords, and sat on the boards of large corporations such as NatWest and Marks and Spencer.

In this period, the parliamentary gathering began to be preceded by an open-air State Procession ( which often attracted large numbers of onlookers ): the Monarch, together with Household retinue, would proceed in State from whichever royal residence was being used, first to Westminster Abbey for a service ( usually a Mass of the Holy Ghost, prior to the Reformation ), and thence on foot ( accompanied by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their robes ) to the Palace of Westminster for the Opening itself.

Such a large increase in powers necessitated a change of office ; previously the department had worked out of the Lord Chancellor's offices in the House of Lords, but it now moved to dedicated offices in Whitehall.

Following ECJ guidance, the House of Lords held by a majority that this was a large enough disparity in coverage, which required justification by the government.

" At the games's starting point this world has been subjected for several months to a year, to a pan dimensional invasion by a series of " High Lords " who have changed the natural laws of large swaths of Earth to reflect those of their home dimensions.

The House of Lords was presided over by the Lord Chancellor, who sat on the woolsack, a large seat stuffed with wool from each of the three lands of England, Ireland and Scotland.

From the establishment of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1542 the Lords included a large number of new Gaelic and Norman lords under the policy of surrender and regrant.