The House of Magnates (Hungarian: Főrendiház; German: Magnatenhaus; Romanian: Camera Magnaților; Italian: Camera dei Magnati) was the upper chamber of the...

country in the name of his ten-year-old son, King Louis II (1516–26). In 1608 the Diet divided into two houses: House of Magnates and House of Representatives...

made a point of executing or neutralising as many magnates as possible. Henry would make parliament attaint undesirable nobles and magnates, thereby stripping...

parliament, consisting of two houses: an upper house titled the Főrendiház ([ˈføːrɛndihaːz], House of Magnates), and a lower house titled the Képviselőház...

upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. The house formally designated as the upper house is...

of the House of Magnates (Hungarian: A Mágnások Házának elnöke) was the presiding officer of the House of Magnates, the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary...

to dukedoms of other nations, even where an institution similar to the peerage (e.g. Grandeeship, Imperial Diet, Hungarian House of Magnates) existed. During...

The magnates of Poland and Lithuania (Polish: magnateria) were an aristocracy of Polish-Lithuanian nobility (szlachta) that existed in the Crown of the...

the University of Bonn. After returning home, he joined Hungarian politics as a member of the House of Magnates. He served as the ispán of Arad County between...

parliament (House of Lords and House of Representatives). Democratic principles were established with Public Law V that allowed 6.5% of the population...

aristocratic House of Magnates continued until 1945). He was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and...

as well as parts of Austria and Bohemia. King Matthias died without lawful sons, and the Hungarian magnates procured the accession of the Pole Vladislaus...

complex society that included the magnates, lesser nobles, middle class, working class, and peasantry. However, the magnates continued to wield great influence...

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...

Representatives and two members (after 1881 – three) to the House of Magnates of the Diet of Hungary. The delegates of Croatia–Slavonia were allowed to use Croatian...

Museum, just 2 out of 223 museums in Budapest. Another historical museum is the House of Terror, hosted in the building that was the venue of the Nazi Headquarters...

Parliament" as they joined leading magnates in purging the chief ministers of the Crown and the most unpopular members of the king's household. Edward III...

1874, as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from 3 April 1879 to 12 April 1880 and as Speaker of the House of Magnates from 19 September...

converted to Christianity and was made a life member of the parliament's upper house, the House of Magnates (1903). Apart from politics, he was a mining company...

Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt...

National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament. The Hungarian magnates refused to send members to the Austrian House of Lords and insisted on...

Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Magnates in 1849. After defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 he was executed because his name...

he became a member of the newly re-established House of Magnates. He later became an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was its...

of: Zsigmond Perényi (1783–1849), Speaker of the House of Magnates (1849) Zsigmond Perényi (1870–1946), Minister of the Interior (1919), Speaker of the...

daughter and heir of Count János Barkóczy. Among his extended family was uncles Endre Hadik-Barkóczy (Speaker of the House of Magnates) and Miksa Hadik...

he sat in the House of Magnates, where he defended Romanians' rights on a number of occasions, in particular intervening on behalf of their confessional...

to Austria-Hungary. However, the Hungarian House of Magnates blocked the colonial purchase on the eve of its finalization. This colonial move made by...

The Governor of Fiume was entitled to membership in the House of Magnates. The municipal self-rule was entrusted to a Rappresentanza of 56 members whose...

the semi-independent Principality of Transylvania. The House of Habsburg held the Hungarian throne after the Battle of Mohács in 1526 continuously until...

and conflict between supporters of the claim of his nephew, Arthur, and John. Guillaume des Roches led the magnates of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine declaring...