On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.

Other electors were added in the 17th century, including the Duke of Bavaria ( referred to as the Elector of Bavaria — replacing the Count Palatine of the Rhine, who was of the same family but had lost his title and vote temporarily during the Thirty Years ' War ), and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( the Elector of Hanover-an office subsequently held by three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain, George I, George II, and George III ).

The result was the Angevin Empire, named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers.

Bismarck was created Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (" Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen ") in 1865 ; this comital title is borne by all his descendants in the male line.

The Count is seen as the father of modern savate and was 11-time Champion of France and its colonies, his first ring combat and title prior to World War I. Savate de Defense, Defense Savate, Savate de Rue (" de rue " means " of the street ") is the name given to those methods of fighting excluded from savate competition.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, which gave her the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.

They continued to use the title " Count Palatine of the Rhine " (, ).

* Raymond IV of Toulouse begins to besiege Tripoli, and takes the nominal title of Count of Tripoli.

Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the title character.

In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in Évora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades.

Michael Maier was ennobled with the title Pfalzgraf ( Count Palatine ) by Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia.

Therefore, four-year-old Francis ( who was already Count of Angoulême after the death of his own father two years prior ) became the heir presumptive to the throne of France and was vested with the title of Duke of Valois.

Until 1971, Danish princes who married women who did not belong to a royal or noble family were refused the Sovereign's authorization, renouncing their right of succession to the throne and royal title ( Prince Aage of Denmark morganatically eloped with Matilda Calvi, daughter of Count Carlo Giorgio di Bergolo, in January 1914 but renounced his dynastic rights and titles subsequently ).

They were granted the non-royal prefix of " Prince " and their descendants bear the title Count af Rosenborg in the Danish nobility.

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.

In Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, Count Dracula takes the title of Lord Protector upon marrying Queen Victoria and becoming Prince Consort.

They lived first in Rome but, in 1774, moved to Florence where Charles began to use the title " Count of Albany " as an alias.

As Geoffrey Hughes writes, " It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title ' Count ' was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic ' Earl ' precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt ".

* in the Thai royal and noble title Phraya ( Phaya in dialects that elide / r /) which ranks below Chao Phraya ( Duke ) and above Phranai ( Count or Earl.

In Belgium, the title of Duke of Brabant ( historically the most prestigious in the Low Countries, and containing the federal capital Brussels ), if still vacant, has been awarded preferentially to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the king, other male dynasts receiving various lower historical titles ( much older than Belgium, and in principle never fallen to the Belgian crown ), such as Count of Flanders ( King Leopold III's so-titled brother held the title when he became the realm's temporary head of state as prince-regent ) and Prince of Liège ( a secularised version of the historical prince-bishopric ; e. g., the present King Albert II until he succeeded his older brother Baudouin I ).

A few ( as Portugal itself ) started as Count ( even if the title of Dux was sometimes added ), but soon all politically relevant princes were to use the royal style of King.

* Count of Paris, a title held by senior members of the House of Orléans

** Duke Louis I of Anjou inherits the claim to the Latin Empire ( now western Turkey ) but never uses the title of Emperor.

In any case, during the last years of the 9th century, in Anjou as elsewhere the power was delegated to a viscount, Fulk the Red ( mentioned under this title after 898 ), son of a certain Ingelgerius.

Margaret is the title character of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1820 opera Margherita d ' Anjou.

At birth, Louis XV received a customary title of younger sons: " Duke of Anjou ".

At birth, Philip was created Duke of Anjou, a traditional title for younger sons in the French royal family.

In 1275 Alfonso tried to meet with his nominal imperial vicar in Italy, William VII of Montferrat ( who had succeeded Ezzelino ) and his Ghibelline allies in Piedmont and Lombardy to fight against the Guelph Charles I of Anjou ; he was however halted in Provence by the Pope who, after a long negotiation, obtained Alfonso's renunciation of the title of King of the Romans.

* As the Duke of Anjou, the future Henry III plays a significant role in the French film The Princess of Montpensier, based on the novel of the same title by Madame de La Fayette.

In 1151 he joined Louis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the Empress Matilda, and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, from which she later claimed the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.

Despite Henri according his youngest brother Francis the title of Duke of Anjou, the prince and his followers continued to create disorder at court through their involvement in the Dutch Revolt.

Similar to the title of Duke of York in England, none of those who received the title Duke of Anjou ( except the first creation ), were able to transmit it ; they either died without a male heir, returned it to the crown, or succeeded to the throne.

The characterization of a noble inheritance " a la mode de la Bretagne " was used in modern times by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to explain his preferences with regards to the embarrassing claim to the title Duke of Anjou by both a Spanish member of the House of Bourbon and a member of the French House of Orléans.

Gaston de France was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 4 April 1608 and at birth was given the title of duc d ' Anjou.

He was also legitimist claimant to the throne of France, using the title Duke of Anjou.

He was also the legitimist claimant to the throne of France, using the title Duke of Anjou.

He was also the legitimist claimant to the throne of France, using the title Duke of Anjou.

Jaime was also legitimist claimant to the French throne, using the title Duke of Anjou ; in this capacity he had substantial supporters.

This group was initially minuscule, but began to grow larger after World War II due both to the political leftism of the Orleanist Pretender, Henri, comte de Paris, and to the active efforts of the claimants of the elder line — Jaime, Duke of Segovia, the disinherited second son of Alfonso XIII of Spain, and his son, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz — to secure legitimist support, such that by the 1980s, the elder line had fully reclaimed for its supporters the political title of " Legitimists ".

A 1987 attempt by the Orleanist heir ( and other Bourbons, none of the elder branch ) to contest Louis-Alphonse's use of the Anjou title and to deny him use of the plain coat of arms of France was dismissed by the French courts in March 1989 for lack of jurisdiction ( the courts did not address the merits of the claims ).

The efforts of this cardinal to enforce his family's pretensions to the Countship of Provence, and his temporary assumption, with this object, of the title of Cardinal of Anjou were without success.

However, Louis respected tradition and gave him the title of Duke of Anjou instead, a title commonly granted to the younger sons of French kings since the fourteenth century.