She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.

Alfonso had been in love with a woman of noble family named Lucrezia d ' Alagno, who served as a de facto queen at the Neapolitan court as well as an inspiring muse.

The French noble style was danced both at social events and by professional dancers in theatrical productions such as opera-ballets and court entertainments.

** Daigo Fuyumoto ( 1648-1697 ), Japanese court noble who founded the family branch

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

He came from a prominent family ( his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke ), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints.

The subsequent events have often been interpreted as a struggle between two opposing factions, the " court party ", made up of Baldwin's mother, Amalric's first wife Agnes of Courtenay, her immediate family, and recent arrivals from Europe who were inexperienced in the affairs of the kingdom and who were in favour of war with Saladin ; and the " noble party ", led by Raymond of Tripoli and the lesser nobility of the kingdom, who favoured peaceful co-existence with the Muslims.

In the event this proved unachievable and instead Leicester employed William Spicer to rebuild and extend the castle so as to provide modern accommodation for the royal court and symbolically boost his own claims to noble heritage.

Born between 720 and 735 in Friuli in Italy to this possibly noble Lombard family, Paul received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek.

There were comical waka already in the Kojiki and the Man ' yōshū, but the noble style of waka in the court inhibited and scorned such aspects of waka.

Unlike most composers of his time, he appears never to have sought a post at either a church or noble court, but then he was a man of independent means and had the option to compose music independently.

* Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Japanese court noble and regent

** A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title ; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.

However, this was a delicate process, and if a courtesan of " lower status " attempted to replace a courtesan who wielded a substantial amount of power within the court, it would often result in the lower courtesan being exiled from the royal court, or married off to a lesser noble in an arranged marriage, or even murdered.

With the death of her father and the later accession of the Empress Anna, no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court to Elizabeth, as it would be seen as an unfriendly act to the Empress.

The subsequent events have often been interpreted as a struggle between two opposing factions, a " court party " and a " noble party.

By 1450, the Tatar language had become fashionable in the court of the Grand Prince of Moscow, Vasily II, who was accused of excessive love of the Tatars and their speech, and many Russian noblemen adopted Tatar surnames ( for example, a member of the Veliamanov family adopted the Turkic name " Aksak " and his descendents were the Aksakovs ) Many Russian boyar ( noble ) families traced their descent from the Mongols or Tatars, including Veliaminov-Zernov, Godunov, Arseniev, Bakhmetev, Bulgakov ( descendents of Bulgak ) and Chaadaev ( descendents of Genghis Khan's son Jagatay ).

Hystaspes was an officer in Cyrus's army and a noble of his court.

* Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Yuandi flees with remnants of the Jin court and noble families to the south.

* Fujiwara no Yasunori, Japanese court noble

He became a successful trader, dealing in valuable imports such as silks and velvets, both luxury fabrics, much of which he sold to the Royal and noble court from about 1388.

" From this time forward, Anne ’ s health deteriorated, and she withdrew from the centre of cultural and political activities, staging her last known masque in 1614 and no longer maintaining a noble court.

Although formally the Son of Heaven ( 天子, pinyin: tiānzǐ ), where the Heaven refers to the celestial heavens or the universe, the power of the emperor varied between emperors and dynasties, with some emperors being absolute rulers and others being figureheads with actual power lying in the hands of court factions, eunuchs, the bureaucracy or noble families.

A noble entitled to wear a coronet as part of their regalia of noble status also customarily displays it above the shield in the full heraldic achievement associated with the particular title in question.

Dante's class prejudice displays itself in several episodes in the Inferno ; in one, three noble Florentines, who have died and gone to Hell, ask Dante for news of their home city.

In the European Middle Ages, Hector figures as one of the Nine Worthies noted by Jacques de Longuyon, known not only for his courage but also for his noble and courtly nature.

* EuropeanHeraldry. org catalogues a large number of European noble titles and heraldry.

The formal rule of the proportionally more numerous than in other European countries nobility constituted an early democratic system (" a sophisticated noble democracy "), in contrast to the absolute monarchies prevalent at that time in the rest of Europe.

Strict Salic inheritance has been officially revoked in all extant European monarchies except for the Principality of Liechtenstein ; however it is still recognized in the House laws of many non-sovereign noble families.

Numerous noble Russian and Ruthenian families claim a male-line descent from Rurik, and via Anne of Kiev, wife of Henry I of France, Rurikid ancestry can also be argued for numerous Western European lineages.

Marking the end of the great European empires that once dominated the African continent, However The noble aspirations of these new nations quickly faded, and many states descended into anarchy, kleptocracy, dictatorships, and / or civil war.

A few medieval cities were admired for their wide thoroughfares and orderly arrangements, but the juridical chaos of medieval cities ( where the administration of streets was sometimes passed down through noble families ), and the characteristic tenacity of medieval Europeans in legal matters prevented frequent or large-scale urban planning until the Renaissance and the early-modern strengthening of central government administration, as European society transited from city-states to what we would recognize as a more modern concept of a nation-state.

Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the literary audience and thus this split of literary effort led to a certain lack of development and stagnation of Czech baroque literature in comparison to other European countries of the time, especially in genres that were written for noble courts.

Unlike the commoner status of a British peer's wife and descendants ( yet typical of the nobility of every continental European country ), the legitimate children and male-line descendants of any French nobleman ( whether titled or not, whether possessing a French peerage or not ) were also legally noble ad infinitum.

European dynasties usually awarded apanages to princes of the blood, typically attached to a feudal noble title, such as Britain's royal dukes, the Dauphin in France, the Count of Flanders in Belgium, and the Count of Syracuse in Sicily.

His half-sisters married into European noble families.

For these reasons, no European noble would accept the offer of a Mexican crown.

* His / Her High Well-born-knights and untitled noble persons in several European countries, and also barons in the Netherlands

17th century European noble culture commonly matched cousin to first cousin and uncle to niece, to preserve a prosperous family's properties.

He writes that, unlike the court Jews of earlier centuries, who had financed and managed European noble houses, but often lost their wealth through violence or expropriation, the new kind of international bank created by the Rothschilds was impervious to local attacks.

John Selden, in Titles of Honour ( 1614 ), discussing the title gentleman, speaks of " our English use of it " as " convertible with nobilis " ( an ambiguous word, like noble meaning elevated either by rank or by personal qualities ) and describes in connection with it the forms of ennobling in various European countries.

Count ( male ) or Countess ( female ) is a title in European countries for a noble of varying status, but historically deemed to convey an approximate rank intermediate between the highest and lowest titles of nobility.

It was unheard of in European royalty for a noble lady to even converse with a man who had not won or acquired importance in the household.

Since in Poland all sons of a noble were nobles, and not only the eldest, every one of an estimated 500, 000 nobles could potentially have participated in such elections in person-by far the widest franchise of any European country at the time.

Astacus astacus, the " European crayfish ", " noble crayfish " or " broad-fingered crayfish ", is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional foodstuff.

* House of Welf, also known as the House of Guelph, a European noble family

The Vanderbilt family have become connected by marriage to such noble European families as the Spencer Churchill family ( Duke of Marlborough ( title ), marquess of Blandford ), counts of Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék, counts of Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár and counts of Hadik de Futak.

Adele ( also spelled Adèle, or Adelle ) is a female given name of European origin used in English, French, German and Italian with a meaning of noble, kind, and tender.