The House of Nobility (Swedish: Riddarhuset) in Stockholm, Sweden, is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group...
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The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class...
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nobility and the Swedish House of Nobility for centuries. Finland was conquered from Sweden by Imperial Russia. The estate of nobility existed fully starting...
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House of Nobility can refer to the following historical Nordic noble estate's assemblies: Swedish House of Nobility Finnish House of Nobility This disambiguation...
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Finnish nobility (Finnish: Aateli; Swedish: Adel) was historically a privileged class in Finland, deriving from its period as part of Sweden and the Russian...
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list of Swedish noble families, which are divided into two main groups: Introduced nobility, i.e. noble families introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility...
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in Sweden next to the King. It was a Diet made up of the Four Estates, which historically were the lines of division in Swedish society: Nobility Clergy...
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House of Nobility (Sweden), the house of the Swedish nobility House of Magnates in Hungary, which functioned as the House of Lords Cromwell's House of...
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Ruthenian nobility Serbian nobility Spanish nobility Swedish nobility Swiss nobility Australian peers and baronets Fijian nobility Polynesian nobility Samoan...
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The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden, by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system...
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The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: bajorija, šlėkta, Polish: szlachta Wielkiego...
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II of Denmark, the prelates and higher nobility of Sweden favouring the union. Provinces of Sweden History of Scandinavia List of runestones Swedish History...
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The House of Vasa or Wasa (Swedish: Vasaätten, Polish: Wazowie, Lithuanian: Vazos) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden. Its members...
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Danish nobility is a social class and a former estate in the Kingdom of Denmark. The nobility has official recognition in Denmark, a monarchy. Its legal...
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of the House of Bonde which is number 20 in the Swedish House of Nobility and the counts of the House of Bonde af Björnö, number 41. Prominent members,...
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The House of Bernadotte is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden. It was also the royal family of Norway...
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war with Sweden, lasting between 1518 and 1523. Though he captured the country in 1520, the subsequent slaughter of leading Swedish nobility, churchmen...
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Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and...
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Count of Wisborg (Swedish: Greve af Wisborg, French: Comte de Wisborg, German: Graf von Wisborg) is a title of nobility granted by the Monarch of Luxembourg...
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court of Mecklenburg. They had been banished from Sweden after a revolt against King Magnus IV, Albert's uncle who was unpopular with the nobility. At the...
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practice was the use of the Greek language with the ending with ander, the Greek word for man (e.g. Micrander, Mennander). The Swedish nobility during medieval...
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The Swedish royal family (Swedish: Svenska kungafamiljen) since 1818 has consisted of members of the Swedish Royal House of Bernadotte, closely related...
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foundation of Terra Mariana. Most of the nobility consisted of Baltic Germans, but with the changing political landscape over the centuries, Polish, Swedish and...
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Imperial, royal and noble ranks (redirect from Ranks of nobility and peerage)
Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...
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Karl Knutsson (redirect from Charles VIII (of Sweden))
with King Eric of Pomerania among the Swedish nobility, Karl was in 1436 made Rikshövitsman, an office equating to Military Governor of the Realm, and...
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of Norway in Trondheim.[citation needed] However, the Swedish nobility now took steps to avoid war with Denmark. In June 1450, the Swedish Council of...
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also opposed to the nobility and a determined opponent of Eric's half-brother, later John III of Sweden (1537–92). John was the Duke of Finland and was married...
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The House of Carlson was Swedish high nobility associated with the Swedish Royal Family. It held the counties of Börringe and Lindholmen as fiefs. The...
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majority in Sweden—particularly the commoners and lower nobility, and Charles came forward as their champion, and also as the defender of the Vasa dynasty...
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Adolf (or Adolph) Frederick (Swedish: Adolf Fredrik; German: Adolf Friedrich; 14 May 1710 – 12 February 1771) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death...
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