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The estates of the family passed through female lines of descendants, and the surname Ernle, pronounced Earnley, after the Sussex parish from which it derived, now forms part of the orotund surname, Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, borne by Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany whose wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Mary Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Burton, was the eventual heiress of the senior line of the Wiltshire Ernle family.
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The Russian royal family had been the most autocratic and conservative rulers in Europe, and the Finnish people had experienced it by way of the four Finnish estates.
Astor's family owned Scottish estates in the area and a fellow Old Etonian Robert Fletcher had a property on the island.
At the Restoration the sequestration of his father's lands was annulled, and in 1665 he succeeded by the death of his elder brother as the 3rd Baronet Gordon, of Haddo and to the family estates.
Shortly after he had begun to practice, the discovery of coal beneath the Duffryn and other Aberdare Valley estates brought his family great wealth.
The country has an international dispute with the Czech Republic and Slovakia concerning the estates of its princely family in those countries.
He also served in the army for a year and became an officer in the Landwehr ( reserve ), before returning to run the family estates at Schönhausen on his mother's death in his mid-twenties.
He was from a notable senatorial family with estates in Aquitaine, northern Spain, and southern Italy.
Primogeniture maintained family estates intact over generations by permitting only one heir per generation.
Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 ), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.
Fearing further persecution on account of his family ties, Theodosius abruptly retired to his family estates in the province of Gallaecia ( present day Galicia, Spain ) where he adapted to the life of a provincial aristocrat.
Records show early members of the family as holding estates at Riccarton, Tarbolton, and Auchincruive in Kyle, and Stenton in Haddingtonshire.
Over the centuries, the family acquired huge landed estates, mostly in Moravia, Lower Austria and Styria, but all of these rich territories were held in fief under other more senior feudal lords, particularly under various lines of the Habsburg family, to which many Liechtensteins were close advisors.
After those attempts on his life, Commodus spent much of his time outside Rome, mostly on the family estates at Lanuvium.
Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets, one of the two family branches that were belligerents in the War of the Roses.
Many of them, including the Earl of Northumberland, Lords Clifford and Ros, and John Neville of Raby who represented a northern branch of the Neville family who had been eclipsed by the southern branch headed by the Earl of Salisbury, had estates and influence in the north.
In general, however, touring cars are based upon family cars ( such as hatchbacks, saloons or estates ), while GT racing cars are based upon more powerful and expensive sports cars, such as Ferraris or Lamborghinis ( and are thus usually coupes ).
She was criticised for the lavish display of luxury in her various estates, although her rich family of financiers in many instances gave money to the government and saved the monarchy from bankruptcy.
His sons, however, recovered the family estates after the suppression of the rebellion.
The core curriculum in American law schools, however, is largely devoted to matters primarily litigated in state courts, such as contract disputes, trusts and estates, personal injury cases, common law crimes, constitutional criminal procedure, family law, property law, commercial transactions, and state corporate law.
" Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes .(...
Some years after William's death, that bishop is said to have laid a curse on the family that William's sons would have no children, and the great Marshal estates would be scattered.
Instead he was posted to Palestine, before leaving the army in 1946 to take care of the family estates of Gartshore and Woodhall in Lanarkshire, which he inherited on the death of his grandfather.
Benedict X was then allowed to go free, and he retired to one of his family estates ; but Hildebrand then had him imprisoned in 1060 in the hospice of St. Agnese, where he died, still a prisoner, sometime around 1073 to 1080.
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His estates were forfeit, and passed to the Farquharsons of Auchendryne.
For most of the history of the Upper House, Lords Temporal were land owners who held their estates, titles and seats as an hereditary right passed down from one generation to the next in some cases for centuries.
Members of the upper class are often born into it, and are distinguished by immense wealth which is passed from generation to generation in the form of estates.
The statute Quia Emptores is also passed, reforming the feudal system of land leases and allowing the sale of fee simple estates.
As the Bolebec estates passed into Vere hands through two marriages of Bolebec heiresses to Vere males in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the two manors were combined and held by the Vere Earls of Oxford for several centuries.
Many relatively unchanged large country estates that have been passed down through several generations attest to the wealth of many of its residents.
The theme of the decline of the British aristocracy can be linked to the 1911 Parliament Act, which reduced their power, and to inheritance tax increases imposed after World War I, which forced the break-up of many estates that had been passed down for generations.
Coke's estates, including Holkham Hall, passed to his son Henry.
In 1360 the estates of the Malbysse family passed into the hands of the Fairfax family, who pulled the old church down.
Rockingham's estates, but not his marquisate, passed to his nephew William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.
* Czechoslovakia: Major land reform was passed in 1919 redistributing mainly German noble's estates to peasant smallholdings.
* Slovenia and Croatia: With absorption into the kingdom of Yugoslavia, land reform was passed in 1919 with subsidiary laws thereafter redistributing nobles estates among peasant smallholders.
By his first wife he had ten children, of whom one son, Henry, survived him and became 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dying in 1691 without surviving male issue ; the title then became extinct and the estates passed to his third daughter Margaret, wife of John Holles, Earl of Clare, created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1694.
On 23 February he was chosen one of the council to carry on the government during the interregnum ; on 2 March the votes passed against him and the sequestration of his estates were repealed, and on 7 March he was made custos rotulorum ( keeper of the rolls ) for Dorsetshire.
Following the arrival of William of Orange in England King James removed to Ireland where he called a parliament in 1689, which passed a general act of attainder against the Protestants, and confiscated their estates, among whom was the earl of Cork.
The 2nd comte de Soissons died without an heir, so the Soissons estates passed to his younger sister, Marie de Bourbon-Condé, the wife of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, a younger brother of the sovereign Duke of Savoy.
After his death the Osterman titles and estates passed to his nephew, Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy, chancellor of the Russian military orders.
As he had no male issue, his estates passed to the Tolstoy family ( one of his five daughters, Praskovia, had married Matvei Feodorovich Tolstoy ).
The estates passed through many hands over the next few centuries including Thomas Becket in 1162.
John and Alice had no children, so on her death in 1443 the estates and castle were passed on to Richard Dalyngrigge, John's cousin.
Richard died without issue, so in accordance with John's will the estates passed on to Richard's sister Philippa in 1470.
His estates at Ardoch passed to his nephew, Captain ( later Admiral Sir ) Angus Cunninghame Graham, the only son of his brother Cdr.
The Sheffield family estates passed to the 2nd Duke's half-brother Charles Herbert Sheffield, the illegitimate son of the 1st Duke by Frances Stewart.
When Sir William Hatton died without male issue in 1597, the estates passed to a kinsman, another Sir Christopher Hatton ( d. 1619 ), whose son and successor, Christopher, was created Baron Hatton of Kirby.
When Anne de Mowbray died in November 1481 her estates should have passed to William, Viscount Berkeley and to John, Lord Howard.
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