Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.

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.

By seeking close alliances with powerful noble families, Alexios put an end to the tradition of imperial exclusivity and coopted most of the nobility into his extended family and, through it, his government.

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.

A prominent family with this surname is the Cuban noble family that was involved in Cuban real estate prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

* Alexios Komnenos ( c. 1170 – 1199 ), an alleged forefather of the Georgian noble family of Andronikashvili.

Adalbert ( Vojtěch ) was born into a noble Czech family of Prince Slavník and his wife Střezislava in Libice nad Cidlinou, Bohemia.

Baldassarre Cossa was born on the island of Procida or Ischia in the Kingdom of Naples into a noble but impoverished family.

Oscar was the son of a noble family, born near Amiens.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Aedesius (, died 355 ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family.

Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.

Bede's first abbot was Benedict Biscop, and the names " Biscop " and " Beda " both appear in a king list of the kings of Lindsey from around 800, further suggesting that Bede came from a noble family.

* House of Brabant, a noble family from Lotharingia

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 ).

Boniface was from a noble family of Querfurt ( now in Saxony-Anhalt ).

Sima Niu, in contrast to Yan Hui, was from a hereditarily noble family hailing from the Song state.

She was a member of the noble German von Brühl family originating in Thuringia.

The Colonna family is an Italian noble family ; it was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one Pope and many other Church and political leaders.

He descended from a noble Sardinian family.

Otho belonged to an ancient and noble Etruscan family, descended from the princes of Etruria and settled at Ferentinum ( modern Ferento, near Viterbo ) in Etruria.

He was of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum ( son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and brother of future Pope John XIX ), descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, just as was his predecessor Pope Benedict VI ( 973 – 974 ).

Sergius was the son of Benedictus, and traditionally was believed descended from a noble Roman family, although it has been speculated that he was in fact related to the family of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum.

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.

He was born in Kraków, the son of a German immigrant town-clerk, but the view, once generally held, that he was descended from the Pomeranian noble family of Kraków, is now discredited ( cf.

* Osinia Agrippina, a noble woman who descended from Julius or Iulius Capitolinus, who was one of the biographers of the Augustan History

In 870, Charles married Richilde of Provence, who was descended from a noble family of Lorraine.

His wealthy and land-owning family, the noble family of Mussorgsky, is reputedly descended from the first Ruthenian ruler, Rurik, through the sovereign princes of Smolensk.

He declares that William is descended from a noble lineage and knights him " Sir William.

The Koháry descended from an immensely wealthy Upper Hungarian ( now Slovakian ) noble family, who held the princely lands of Čabraď and Sitno in Slovakia, among others.

Tacitus in Germania only mentions the Quadi in the same breath as the Marcomanni, alike in warlike spirit, alike governed by " kings " of their own noble stock, " descended from the noble line of Maroboduus and Tudrus ," the " Tudric " line apparently kings among the Quadi.

Despite the addition of " d ' Estaing " to the family name by his grandfather, Giscard is not descended from the extinct noble family of Vice-Admiral d ' Estaing, that name being adopted by his grandfather in 1922 by reason of a distant connection to another branch of that family, from which they were descended with two breaks in the male line from an illegitimate line of the Viscounts d ' Estaing.

The title is usually inherited by all males descended patrilineally from the original recipient of the title, although in a few noble families baron is the title of cadet family members, while in a few others it is heritable according to primogeniture.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, she is one of the great beauties of Britain, descended from a noble Roman family and educated under duke Cador of Cornwall.

Geoffrey of Monmouth tells a different version of Guinevere's abduction, adding that she was descended from a noble Roman family and was the ward of Cador, Duke of Cornwall.

Baldi descended from a noble family from Urbino, Marche, where he was born.

Constantine reportedly married " a lady, descended from a noble Roman family ".

Since Yoritomo was descended from the imperial family on his father's side and the Fujiwara noble family on his mother's side, he received his first court title and was appointed an administrator.

The noble family of this surname, from which a branch went to Portugal, is descended of one Alanus de Buckenhall.

The general outline of the story is the decline of the Compson family, a once noble Southern family descended from U. S. Civil War hero General Compson.

Confalonieri was born at Milan, descended from a noble Lombard family.