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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

vacancy of the gubernatorial seat. The House of Magnates' jurisdiction was also expanded: the upper house could now return laws to the lower house twice...

and later in the Austrian House of Lords. He also sat in Hungary's House of Magnates, where he repeatedly spoke on behalf of the Romanian nation and church...

Upper house (House of Magnates) of parliament. In 1910, Károlyi was elected to Parliament as a member of the opposition Party of Independence, so he could...

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

aristocratic House of Magnates continued until 1945). Being a member of the Tuscany branch of the House of Habsburg, Anton was the seventh of ten children...

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

of the House of Magnates. István was married to his cousin, Mária Emilia Ágnes Lídia Irma Bittó de Nádasd et Sárosfalva (1839-1921), the daughter of Szeraf...

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...

of 250,000 gulden were made in memory of his wife. In 1896 he was appointed a life-member of the House of Magnates. Szinnyei, Magyar Irók Tóra Pallas Nagy...

Minister of Religion and Education between 1910–1913 and in 1918. He was a member of the House of Magnates from 1894. He was the chairman of the Catholic...

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...

the Delegations and in the Upper House. In 1885 he warmly supported the project for the reform of the House of Magnates, but on the other hand he jealously...

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...