Couturier, p. 96.Couturier, pp. 104, 110. Romero de Terreros lobbied very hard to be elevated to the nobility.
|
|
Thus historian Krisztina Tóth considered the ancestor(s) of the Szécs clan belonged to the social status of royal servants who owned possession and was subordinate only to the king. For his service, they elevated to the nobility by the second half of the century.
|
|
Auflage: Preußen (Geschichte 1861-88) From 1882 to 1888 and again from 1890 to 1893 Maybach was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1888 he was elevated to the nobility. In 1894 his daughter Helene married the noted cellist Robert Hausmann.
|
|
He was married four times: to Antonie Kaltenthaler from 1832 until her death in 1843; from 1844–45 to Katharina Heissler (ending in divorce); from 1857 until her death in 1880 with Emilie Heinrich; and finally to Maria Nemetschke from 1881 until his death. In 1878 Amerling was elevated to the nobility and was called Friedrich Ritter von Amerling.
|
|
7, Spring 1987 (ISSN 0790-7389)) was made a Count of the Habsburg Empire (Reichsgraf). Another witness who happened to be nearby, the butcher Joseph Ettenreich, swiftly overpowered Libényi. For his deed he was later elevated to the nobility by the Emperor and became Joseph von Ettenreich. Libényi was subsequently put on trial and condemned to death for attempted regicide.
|
|
Finally, the Regent arrives in a great ceremony. As evidence of the Governor's practical jokes, Harold and the Hussars dance a ballet for him. The Regent announces that Erling and Tortenssen's previous appointments are confirmed, and they are elevated to the nobility. Corporal Harold is promoted to Colonel, Mats Munck is promoted to Governor, and Griffenfeld is degraded to the rank of Private.
|
|
His family had been elevated to the nobility in 1685 and obtained rights to the title of Freiherr in 1716. He studied in Graz, where he frequented the studios of the landscape painter and author, , and developed an interest in art. After that, he attended Theresian Academy in Vienna. In 1845, he graduated from there and found his first employment; as a civil servant.
|
|
He served in this capacity at the Dolmabahçe Palace from 1786 until 1790. As a diplomat, he signed into action a formal alliance between the Ottomans and the Prussians on 31 January 1790. He elevated to the nobility, as a reward for his diplomatic service, in 1786. Upon being ennobled, he was granted the right to include the nobiliary particle "von" in his surname.
|
|
In 1476 he participated in Ivan III's campaign against Novgorod. In 1492 and 1493 he participated in the campaigns against Lithuania. In 1495 or 1500 Obolensky was elevated to the nobility and in 1500 attended the wedding of Prince Vasily Kholmsky to the daughter of Ivan III, Feodosiya Ivanovna. In 1501, Obolensky participated in the Battle of Vedrosha of the second Lithuanian war under the command of Daniil Shchenya.
|
|
After campaigning in Nicaragua he distinguished himself in the conquest of Peru. Little is known of the origin of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba; he was likely to have been a commoner elevated to the nobility as a result of his actions in the New World.Meléndez 1976, pp. 32–33. Gil González Dávila was a professional soldier who arrived in Panama in 1519.Olson et al 1992, p. 283.
|
|
In thanks, he created two monumental canvases for the Maximilianeum. Between 1865 and 1875, he served as Director of the Royal Gallery, but was harshly criticized for his methods of restoration, which employed questionable chemical processes developed by Max von Pettenkofer, as well as the overpainting of some canvases. Despite this, he was elevated to the nobility in 1869. His paintings are historically precise, but are now considered to be rather conservative and academic.
|
|
55 The only firm that proved resistant to their efforts was Krupp, which held a near monopoly on armor plating and large-caliber guns, and proved to be too powerful for the RMA to effectively pressure.Weir, p. 70 Capelle was promoted to konteradmiral (rear admiral) in 1906, and to vizeadmiral (vice admiral) three years later. In 1912, Capelle was elevated to the nobility, which allowed him to add "von" to his name.
|
|
In 1514, a Laurent de Monceaux was a curate at Viam. In the middle of the 14th century, the Château de Monceaux, owned by the Lord Murat de Tarnac, was sold to the Comte family, a middle-class family in Treignac and elevated to the nobility thereafter. At the end of the seventeenth century, the coat of arms of Sir Pierre Comte of Monceaux de Viam was blazoned with d'argent à un arbre de sinople.
|
|
Kościesza coat-of-arms Szymonowic studied in Poland (Lwów, Kraków), France and Belgium. From 1586 he was associated with Grand Hetman and Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, with whom in 1593–1605 he organized the Zamojski Academy. In 1590 he was elevated to the nobility (szlachta), with Kościesza coat-of-arms. A humanist fluent in Greek and Latin, Szymonowic wrote in Polish Sielanki (Pastorals, 1614), a work influenced by the pastoral poems of Virgil and Theocritus.
|
|
Arz von Straussenberg to the position of Chief of the General Staff, Rohr took charge of the 1st Army and for the first time served as a commander on the Eastern Front. On April 14, 1917, he was elevated to the nobility, taking the rank of Baron and the title Rohr von Denta. Promoted to the position of Field Marshal on January 30, 1918, Rohr continued in command of the 1st Army until its disbandment following peace with Romania on April 15, 1918.
|
|
In 1801, after the Treaty of Lunéville redrew France's borders, Böninger moved the factory to Paris to avoid the new import taxes. Langer returned to Düsseldorf, where he helped resurrect the Academy and once more took up his position as Director, with special attention to the art gallery. In 1806, when the gallery was moved to Munich, he followed it there and became the first Director of the new Academy of Fine Arts. In 1808, he was elevated to the nobility.
|
|
In 1906 he was elevated to the nobility. Eucken served in the First World War from 1914 to 1916 and received several awards, after which he resumed his office as a federal counsellor, an office which he resigned on 12 November 1918 following the resignation of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. In 1919 he briefly acted as a representative of the Oldenburg and Lippe regional governments at the Constitutional Assembly in Weimar, and then moved to his estate Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel.
|
|
The Pace family originated from Spain and were elevated to the nobility as counts in 1336. The family later settled in Trieste, Italy before making their way to the Venetian Republic in the fifteenth century. The original Spanish surname may have been Castronovo, and later the title associated with the Castronovo, Conte de Pace, was adopted in Italy as the name. On 5 December 1509 Victor Castronovo seu de Montefumo, Conte de Pace and his brothers received a coat of arms in Heidelberg.
|
|
Some very old noble families, usually members of the Uradel, bear surnames without the rather young nobiliary particle von but are nevertheless still noble. Also, a very few German families were elevated to the nobility without use of the preposition von. This was the case of the Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach who received baronial dignity in 1680. In order to distinguish themselves from bearers of regionally frequent non-noble surnames containing von, nobles in Northern Germany continue the royal Prussian military practice of abbreviating the noble von to v.
|
|
Kalb served with distinguished honor in the War of the Austrian Succession in Flanders. During the Seven Years' War, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and made assistant quartermaster general in the Army of the Upper Rhine, a division created by the disbanding of the Loewendal Regiment. He won the Order of Military Merit in 1763, and was elevated to the nobility with the title of baron. In 1764, he resigned from the army and married Anna Elizabeth Emilie van Robais, an heiress to a fortune from cloth manufacturing.
|
|
Also that year, Viviani directed an oratorio at the Oratorio di San Marcello in Rome with Arcangelo Corelli and Bernardo Pasquini. He was probably elevated to the nobility in the same year, since he subsequently designated himself ‘Nobile del Sacro Romano Imperio’. Between 1678 and 1679 and 1681 and 1682 he was in Naples as director of a troupe of opera singers, and while he was there he performed some of his own operas and oratorios. In 1686 he was maestro di cappella to the Prince of Bisignano.
|
|
They wrote letters and paid visits to Schelling in an effort to console him, but he became progressively more withdrawn and expressed growing criticism of science and of the church. This increasingly intimate correspondence lead to his engagement with Pauline Gotter. On 11 June 1812, Pauline Gotter married Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, who was eleven years her senior, and who was elevated to the nobility and invited to join to the Academy of Science in Munich in the same year. On 17 December 1813 their first child was born.
|
|
A general of the Inca armies, Ollantay is a warrior of commoner origin that has been decorated and elevated to the nobility in return for his service to the empire. He falls in love with Cusi Coyllur (or Kusi Quyllur, "happy star"), the daughter of the Inca ruler Pachacutec, but this love is prohibited due to his commoner background. Nevertheless, blinded by love, he pursues a secret relationship with Cusi Coyllur, a secret shared only with the Queen Ccoya Anahuarqui. Despite ominous omens from the Inca high priest, Ollantay decides to ask the Inca king for his daughter's hand.
|
|
4 pictures and biography at Art Renewal Center For most of his life, he divided his time between Paris and Prague, where he became a Professor at the Art Academy in 1893. He was named a member of the Institut de France, partly through the influence of his father- in-law, who also suggested that he do a painting on the theme "Tu Felix Austria Nube" (from an old saying: "Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry"). The result pleased Emperor Franz Joseph I, who was involved in an unhappy marriage. As a result, Brožík was elevated to the nobility.
|
|
That year, he was elevated to the nobility and, in April, became the Chief of the Admiralty Staff, a position he would hold for two years.Mombauer, p. 323 As Chief of the Admiralty Staff, Pohl was involved in the German deliberations during the July Crisis in the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian terrorists the previous month. Pohl, Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the German General Staff, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Chancellor, met the Kaiser after the monarch returned from a cruise to Norway with the bulk of the High Seas Fleet.
|
|
Du Pont was born 24 June 1771, in Paris, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Nicole-Charlotte Marie-Louise le Dée de Rencourt. His father was a political economist who had been elevated to the nobility in 1784 by letters patent granted by King Louis XVI, allowing him to carry the honorable de Nemours suffix. Growing up on his father's estate, "Bois des Fossés", near Égreville, young du Pont was enthusiastic about his studies in most subjects, and showed particular interest in explosives. Du Pont married Sophie Dalmas (1775–1828) in 1791, and they had eight children.
|
|
According to a story, when presented with a peasant scene by Teniers the French king asked for the 'magots' ('baboons') to be removed from his sight as soon as possible. Teniers bought a house close to the Brussels court and was promoted in 1655 to 'camerdiender' or 'ayuda de cámara' (chamberlain) by the Archduke. It was most unusual for a painter to serve as chamberlain at the Spanish court. In fact, there was only one other case, which dates from the same time: that of Velázquez, whose aim was also to be elevated to the nobility.
|
|
During the First Sino-Japanese War, Kawakami served as senior military staff officer on the Imperial General Headquarters, and was known as a brilliant strategist. After the successful conclusion of that war, he was awarded with the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class), and elevated to the nobility with the title of shishaku (viscount) under the kazoku peerage system. Kawakami was posthumously awarded the Order of the Golden Kite (2nd class), Order of the Rising Sun (1st class with Paulownia Blossoms, Grand Cordon) and the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum. His grave is at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.
|
|
On September 9, 1837 Bonfim was appointed Minister of War and interim Foreign Minister and Minister of Marine in the second government of Sá de Bandeira. Among his acts in this office, following the crushing of the Chartist rebellion at the Battle of Ruivães on September 20, 1837, was disarming the National Guard, which had been converted into a permanent force for insurrection. On March 13, 1838 he used troops to put down a revolt by rebels who had occupied the Lisbon Arsenal, a decisive act that probably prevented the fall of the liberal government. By a Decree of D. Maria II of April 4, 1838 he was elevated to the Nobility, as Count of Bonfim.
|
|
David Teniers II, A pastoral landscape with a shepherd playing a pipe with cattle and sheep at Christie's David Teniers II, A pastoral landscape with a herdsman playing a pipe near a waterfall at Sotheby's View of Drij Toren at Perk, with David Teniers' family, 1660s, oil on canvas Teniers's interest in pastoral paintings has been linked to his ambition to be elevated to the nobility. Agriculture and animal husbandry were regarded as proper occupations of the nobility. An estate in the countryside was therefore a necessary part of the status of nobles of that time. Teniers had himself acquired the country estate Drij Toren in Perk near Rubens' country estate Het Steen.
|
|
The founder, Gottfried van Swieten, had an extremely strong interest in music, particularly in the revival of music by great composers of the past such as J. S. Bach and Handel. However, van Swieten was himself only a baron, and was originally a commoner (his father, Gerhard van Swieten, had been the personal physician of Empress Maria Theresa and had been elevated to the nobility during Gottfried's own lifetime). Thus van Swieten lacked the vast wealth held by the older nobility, who possessed great landed estates in the hinterlands of the Empire. By recruiting a group of fellow music-lovers from the upper nobility, van Swieten was able to fund concert productions that would have been beyond his personal means.
|
|
His service at the French court had already started before this date. In the course of his career he served a large number of kings and queens including Louise de Lorraine (in 1578, 1587 and 1588), Henry III of France (in 1583), the Queen-mother Catherine de' Medici (in 1586, 1600 and 1603) and Henry IV of France (in 1603 and 1610) as well as Marie de' Medici (in 1603). Near the end of his life, in 1607, Hieronymus was elevated to the nobility and could from then onwards refer to himself as 'noble homme, peintre du roy' ('nobleman, painter to the king'). A Banquet Scene, An Allegory on Love and Lust (between 1555 and 1610) Hieronymus Francken I was the teacher of Abraham Bloemaert during Bloemaert's short stay in Paris and Fontainebleau from 1581 to 1583.
|
|