Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureacracy.

The title was not exactly hereditary but self proclaimed by those who had, wholly or partially, united the Christian northern part of the Iberian peninsula, often at the expense of killing rival siblings.

Some of his descendants ( known as the Kammu Taira or Kammu Heishi ) took the Taira hereditary clan title, and in later generations became prominent warriors.

Its colonel assumed the title of Governor at Arms, a hereditary lifetime appointment which stayed in the hands of the Sánchez-Dumpiérrez family.

For the two years between 1804 and 1806, Francis used the title and style by the grace of God elected Roman Emperor, always August, hereditary Emperor of Austria and he was called the Emperor of both Germany and Austria.

If the armiger has the title of baron, hereditary knight, or higher, he may display a coronet of rank above the shield.

On 25 October 1920 the Italian government recognized Sheikh Sidi Idris the hereditary head of the nomadic Senussi, with wide authority in Kufra and other oases, as Emir of Cyrenaica, a new title extended by the British at the close of World War I.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Ridder, Dutch for " knight ", is a hereditary noble title in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Since 1611, the British Crown has awarded a hereditary title in the form of the Baronetcy.

However, unlike knights, the title is hereditary and the recipient does not receive an accolade.

* Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, Spanish hereditary title held by descendants of Moctezuma II

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.

This indicates that a Cardassian is in the prime of life for at least 60 + years ( assuming it takes some time to become a Gul, as it is a military and not hereditary title ).

In some cases a head of government may even pass on the title in hereditary fashion.

* Mukhali is back in Genghis Khan's camp in Mongolia and receives the hereditary title of prince, a golden seal, and a white standard with 9 tails and a black crescent in the middle.

In 1800 Jurij Vega obtained a title of hereditary baron including the right to his own coat of arms.

In the meantime, Gama made do with a substantial hereditary royal pension of 300, 000 reis, and the award of the noble title of Dom ( lord ) in perpetuity for himself, his siblings and their descendants.

The title Duke of Schleswig was inherited in 1460 by the hereditary kings of Norway who were also regularly elected kings of Denmark simultaneously, and their sons ( unlike Denmark which was not hereditary ).

In 1525, the Order was ousted from East Prussian territory by its own Hochmeister when Albert, Duke of Prussia adopted Lutheranism and assumed the title of duke as hereditary ruler under the overlordship of Poland in the Prussian Homage.

Unlike dukes they could not pass hereditary title and lands to any descendants.

Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states.

In Indonesia, especially on the island of Java, the sultan's divite right is more commonly known as the wahyu, or ' revelation ', but it is not hereditary, and can be passed on to distant relatives.

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

* There are also several very rare forms of hereditary inclusion body myopathy ( hIBM ) that are linked to specific genetic defects and that are passed on from generation to generation, each inherited in different ways.

There are also several very rare forms of hereditary inclusion body myopathy ( myopathies ) that are linked to specific genetic defects and that are passed on from generation to generation.

In hereditary monarchies, the office is passed through inheritance within a family group, whereas elective monarchies are selected by some system of voting.

Mendelian inheritance ( or Mendelian genetics or Mendelism or Monogenetic inheritance ) is a scientific theory of how hereditary characteristics are passed from parent organisms to their offspring ; it underlies much of genetics.

Many tribes, such as the Haudenosaunee Five Nations and the Southeast Muskogean tribes, had matrilineal systems, in which property and hereditary leadership were controlled by and passed through the maternal lines.

In the patrilineal tribes, such as the Omaha, Osage and Ponca, hereditary leadership passed through the male line, and children were considered to belong to the father and his clan.

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.

The extent to which lands and positions should be passed down through hereditary right or by the gift of the king was still uncertain, and tensions around this issue had grown during the reign of Henry I.

Certainly lands in Normandy, passed by hereditary right, were usually considered more important to major barons than those in England, where their possession was less certain.

Crossman, opening the debate on 19 November, said the government would reform the Lords in five ways: removing the voting rights of hereditary peers ; making sure no party had a permanent majority ; ensuring the government of the day usually passed its laws ; weakening the Lords ' powers to delay laws ; and abolishing the power to refuse subordinate legislation if it had been voted for by the Commons.

Later, William of Tyre wrote of Melisende's right to rule following the death of her father that the rule of the kingdom remained in the power of the lady queen Melisende, a queen beloved by God, to whom it passed by hereditary right.

In Japan, where civil authorities permitted Buddhist monks to marry, being the head of a temple or monastery sometimes became a hereditary position, passed from father to son over many generations.

The office of Rebbe is generally a hereditary one, may also be passed from Rebbe to student, or recognized by a congregation conferring a sort of coronation to their new Rebbe.

The title of emperor was hereditary, traditionally passed on from father to son in each dynasty.

The office had become hereditary already with Mardil's grandfather, and thereafter passed to the eldest son if there was any ; otherwise, the heir was selected among the near kin by the Council of Gondor.

Cicero considered the abolition of nexum primarily a political maneuver to appease the common people ( plebs ): the law was passed during the Conflict of the Orders, when plebeians were struggling to establish their rights in relation to the hereditary privileges of the patricians.

# Cells contain hereditary information ( DNA ) which is passed from cell to cell during cell division.

His hereditary Kingdom of Jerusalem passed to the heirs of his great-great-grandmother Isabella I of Jerusalem, among whom a succession dispute arose.

The leadership of the Sakya School is passed down through a hereditary system between the male members of the Sakya branch of the Khon family.

Under a hereditary monarchy, all the monarchs come from the same family, and the crown is passed down from one member to another member of the family.

For example, when the king or queen of a hereditary monarchy dies or abdicates, the crown is usually passed to the next generation, i. e., his or her child, typically in some order of seniority.

An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by an elected monarch, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy in which the office is automatically passed down as a family inheritance.