His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

* June 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick, German noble and general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1771 )

Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).

When Jurij was 33 he married Josefa Svoboda ( Jožefa Swoboda ) ( 1771 – 1800 ), a Czech noble from České Budějovice who was 16 at that time.

In addition to the 70 scholars and 16 " Quiristers " ( choristers ), the statutes provided for ten " noble Commoners ".

On the May 16, 1648 he was one of the many noble Polish prisoners who fell into the hands of Bohdan Khmelnytsky at the battle of Zhovti Vody, but he was quickly ransomed.

The family ’ s noble status dated back to the 1500s, and by the 1700s the Richthofens owned 16 estates in Lower Silesia.

His reign is best known for the Year 16 tomb robberies, recorded in the Abbott Papyrus, the Leopold II-Amherst Papyrus and the Mayer Papyri, when several royal and noble tombs in the Western Theban necropolis were found to have been robbed, including that of a 17th Dynasty king, Sobekemsaf I. Paser, Mayor of Eastern Thebes or Karnak, accused his subordinate Paweraa, the Mayor of West Thebes responsible for the safety of the necropolis, of being either culpable in this wave of robberies or negligent in his duties of protecting the Valley of the Kings from incursions by tomb robbers.

Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus ( 16 AD-64 AD ) was a Roman noble who lived in the Roman Empire during the 1st century.

Cecilia of Sweden, ( Swedish: Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa ) ( Stockholm, 16 November 1540 – Brussels, 27 January 1627 ), was Princess of Sweden as the daughter of King Gustav I and his second queen, Margareta Leijonhufvud, a Swedish noble and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern through marriage with Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern.

The closest record to a first-person account was made by Johann Schiltberger, a German follower of a Bavarian noble, who witnessed the battle at the age of 16 and was captured and enslaved for 30 years by the Turks before returning home, at which time he wrote a narrative of the battle estimating the crusader strength at the final battle at 16, 000, though he also estimated Turkish forces as a wildly inflated 200, 000.

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG ( 1342 – 16 January 1373 ) was an important medieval English noble during the reign of King Edward III of England.

Yikuang ( 16 November 1838-28 January 1917 ), titled Prince Qing ( Prince Ch ' ing in Wade – Giles ) or more formally Prince Qing of the First Rank ( 慶親王 ), was a Manchu noble and politician of the late Qing Dynasty.

András Hadik, son of a lesser noble family, was born on October 16, 1710 in Csallóköz ( then Kingdom of Hungary, now Žitný ostrov in Slovakia ) or in Kőszeg, Kingdom of Hungary ( then part of the Habsburg Empire ).

Section 16 states that in the country there are no noble titles and " all its inhabitants are equal before the law "

The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side.

Born into a noble Roman family in the year 669, Gregory was the son of Marcellus and Honesta.

These various sources of wealth and influence rendered Rudolph the most powerful prince and noble in southwestern Germany ( where the tribal Duchy of Swabia had disintegrated, leaving room for its vassals to become quite independent ) when, in the autumn of 1273, the prince-electors met to choose a king after Richard of Cornwall had died in England the year before.

Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 " in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air " ( along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon ).

They agree to a hundred year truce and surrender fifty noble hostages: Romulus celebrates his third and last triumph.

Each year a cheese festival is held to honor this noble history.

Despite support from the king, Czarniecki was seen by many older, established noble family as an arrogant newcomer, and they prevented him from getting the hetman office that year ; instead early next year he received the office of the voivode of Ruthenia, and an extraordinary title of the " general and vice commander of the royal forces ", which put him in a position of an unofficial hetman-like authority.

Historically, a town house was the city residence of a noble or wealthy family, who would own one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year.

Vassalage ties between the shugo lord and kokujin often took place on the estates in a three way intermediary tie called the shugo contract ( shugo-uke ): a noble proprietor would give the responsibility of managing his estate to the shugo in exchange for a guaranteed year end ( nengu ) income delivered to the proprietor residing in the capital.

Shugo lords gave the management of the estate to samurai in exchange for military service, but the noble stripped of all powers on the estate, was reduced to waiting for his portion of year end ( nengu ) income in Kyoto where he lived.

Urza was born on the first day of the year 0 AR to a noble family of Argive, one of the three coastal kingdoms of Terisiare.

In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.

In the latter year the town was ceded as a fief to the noble Wedell family.

The House of Broglie (, pronounced ) is the name of a noble French family, originally Piedmontese, who emigrated to France in the year 1643.

A community of Tironensian Benedictines was brought from Kelso and the abbey was soon richly endowed by royal and noble benefactors, possessing granges, large estates and the tithes of twenty parish churches giving a revenue of some £ 20, 000 pounds sterling per year.

Originally, this body was created and served only as a judicial body, which comprised the judge, the sedria members and 8 elected noble jurors, and which was usually convened once a year.

The events of this war Milanese-Veneto long and continued with varying fortunes, the Valley was conquered in 1438 by Milan, Venice regained the same year, the riperse in 1453, but then, with the Peace of Lodi, all the valleys of Brescia finally passed under the Republic of San Marco that he applied immediately to its constitution and its laws that greatly limited the power of feudal lords and noble families.

Already at his return from his foreign studies in 1602, he was hired as tutor of the young Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the future king, and was ennobled the following year, taking the name Skytte after an extinct noble family from which he claimed descent on the maternal side.

There was a tradition-not borne out, however, by any tangible evidence or confirmation and quite possibly invented by the Earl of Cromartie-that the family deduced its descent from a member of the House of Geraldine, in Ireland ( whence sprang the noble families of Leinster, Desmond, & c .), who, with a considerable number of his followers, was stated to have settled in Scotland about the year 1261 and to have so powerfully aided King Alexander III in repelling the invasion of Haco, King of Norway.

The colophon of the book ( in Latin ) refers to the technology used: " With the help of the Most High ... this noble book Catholicon has been printed and accomplished without the help of reed, stylus or pen but by the wondrous agreement, proportion and harmony of punches and types, in the year of our Lord's incarnation 1460 in the noble city of Mainz of the renowned German nation ...".

The order was founded about the year 400, by one Alexander, a man of noble birth, who fled from the court of Byzantium to the desert, both from love of solitude and fear of episcopal honours.

" To John Copleston, Esquire, lord of this manor, a man famed as greatly for true virtue as noble descent, who after he had reached his 59th year went to sleep gently in Christ at Warleigh, November 9 1608.

She was married in 515 to Eutharic ( c. 480 – 522 ), an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line, who had previously been living in Visigothic Hispania, son of Widerich ( born c. 450 ), grandson of Berismund ( born c. 410 ), and great-grandson of Thorismund ( died after 400 ), King of the Ostrogoths c. 400.

The brothers were born to a plebeian branch of the old and noble Sempronia family.

* Amalasuntha, daughter of king Theodoric the Great, marries Eutharic, an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line.

The Mačkare from Dobrepolje used to represent a triple character: the beautiful, the ugly ( among which the most important represented by an old man, an old woman, a hunchback, and a Korant ), and the noble ( imitating the urban elite ).

Bildt was born in Halmstad, Halland, and belongs to an old Norwegian-Danish-Swedish noble family traditionally domiciled in Bohus county.

It also heralded the introduction of new noble titles from continental Europe, which were to replace the old Norse titles.

" Moreover ," Head goes on to state in Rivers's obituary notice, " he was able to explode to old fallacy that the ' noble savage ' was endowed with powers of vision far exceeding that of civilised natives.

The two oldest brothers of this old noble family already had major roles during Henry II reign: Francis, Duke of Guise was one of the most famous military commander in the royal army and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine was part of the most important negotiations and matters of the kingdom.

Among their leaders there were also members of some old Byzantine Greek noble families such as the Palaiologi and Comneni.

Traditional names for A. millefolium include arrowroot, bad man's plaything, bloodwort, carpenter's weed, death flower, devil's nettle, eerie, field hops, gearwe, hundred leaved grass, knight's milefoil, knyghten, milefolium, milfoil, millefoil, noble yarrow, nosebleed, old man's mustard, old man's pepper, sanguinary, seven year's love, snake's grass, soldier, soldier's woundwort, stanchweed, thousand seal, woundwort, yarroway, yerw.

** Maro Bona ( old noble family from Dubrovnik )

In King Charles II's reign, he was employ'd under Sir Christopher Wren, in the stately buildings at Winchester ; as he was likewise in all the other publick structures, Palaces & c, erected by that great Man, under whom he was assisting, from the Beginning ( factually wrong, Hawksmoor was 14 years old then ) to the Finishing of that grand and noble Edifice the cathedral of St. Paul's, and of all the churches rebuilt after the Fire of London.

The noble families built houses and even palaces in the old town.

The old Etruscan aristocracy was not extinguished: Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, whose name is eponymous with " patron of the arts ", was of the noble Aretine Etruscan stock.

Mussorgsky (), the name of an old Russian noble family, which is one of the branches of rich boyar family of Monastyrev, descendants of princes of Smolensk from Rurikid stock.

Several notable buildings lie in the heart of the town, including the Rønne Public Library, the Nordeabank and old merchant / noble warehouses and residence buildings.

By 1570, at the time of the Rising of the Northern Earls, the last of the old Norman noble families had been swept away.

Perpetua ( born around 181 ) was a 22-year old married noble and a nursing mother.

Some blemishes may undoubtedly be detected in his character ; but the more carefully it is examined, the more it will appear, to use the phrase of the old anatomists, sound in the noble parts, free from all taint of perfidy, of cowardice, of cruelty, of ingratitude, of envy.

He was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in Amiens, Somme, France, the son of a mining engineer, descendant of an old noble family of Burgundy.

Vetinari has refused to become involved in the war with Klatch, due to the fact Ankh-Morpork does not have an army to stand against any opposing forces ( the reason given being that killing enemy soldiers makes it difficult to sell them things afterwards ), but Rust declares Martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.

Gort was born in London into the Prendergast Vereker noble dynasty, an old Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, and grew up in County Durham and the Isle of Wight.