The nobles were given more weight in voting for a zemstvo, as evidenced by the fact that 74 of the zemstvo members were nobles, even though nobles were 1.3 of the population.

Great Britain is a land of gentlemen and horse riding.

Cricket first came to India with decorous English gentlemen.

The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia Gentry and Government .

Their official status was defined by the Charter to the Gentry in 1785.

He even created a nobility class in the fashion of European monarchies.

The freedom of the Frisians developed in the context of ongoing disputes over the rights of local nobility.

All peers must now publicly promise to be honest.

His father's family had come from the French nobility (De La Banne, from a French crusader stranded in Kingdom of Hungary in the 13th century) and Hungarian nobility, and his mother's family was from France.

The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry.

History In late medieval Europe the chest came into widespread use, especially in homes of the nobility.

He changed the administration of the state through an emphasis on meritocracy and devolving power from the nobility.

The country prospered under his rule, but not peacefully, as his laws interfered with the ambition of powerful nobles.

True enough, some aristocratic heads rolled, but the nobility eventually returned to France.

The naval officers for the fleet were supplied from among the dvoryane (noblemen) and regular sailors from recruits.

At the time of his ascension to power, Bosnia was already decentralized by the semi independent nobility.

French ministries still occupy the former eighteenth century palaces of the King and his nobility.

This eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth.

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

Like Bruce Wayne, Sir Percy and Don Diego are each members of gentry who invite contempt by publicly playing the fool.

However, a number of major newspapers in several countries questioned their motives and some hinted at self appointed nobility and a usurped historical identity.

Young boys learned much about civic life by accompanying their fathers to religious and political functions, including the Senate for the sons of nobles.

It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many countries and distinctively in Europe.

Gentlemen scholars, who would reform and staff the Chinese army and civil service in the early decades of the twentieth century, went to study in Japan.

The French Revolution and the introduction of universal suffrage were aimed as much at ridding France of the corporation of judges as they were at getting rid of the nobility.

From the ancient Greeks, the term passed on to the European Middle Ages for a similar hereditary class of military leaders often referred to as the nobility .

Further north it remained the preferred drink of the bourgeoisie and the nobility who could afford it, and far less common among peasants and workers.

By contrast, the rich grandees of the Conservative Party claimed reimbursement for such things as repairs to swimming pool boilers, moat cleaning, and hanging chandeliers.

Charitable people with a conscience, noble revolutionaries come to Gaza from every part of the world to show their solidarity. In the meantime Gaza is the one that is in solidarity with them, and gives them peace of mind, revolutionary aura, and propaganda materials.

She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress.

Because of this, the food of the nobility was more prone to foreign influence than the cuisine of the poor it was dependent on exotic spices and expensive imports.

Of the two elder sons Robert was considered to be much the weaker and was generally preferred by the nobles who held lands on both sides of the English Channel since they could more easily circumvent his authority.

As Bossuet, Louis XIV s confessor, declared to the Sun King You ll die, but you are immortal. French Presidents and their elected nobility still bask in this decadent aura.

Many nobles, intellectuals and even common folk saw the ways of the Church of England as being too similar to the Catholic Church and that it was used by the crown to usurp the rightful powers of the counties.

Frankfurt was declared an Imperial Free City ( Reichsstadt ) in 1372, making the city an entity of Imperial immediacy, meaning immediately subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor and not to a regional ruler or a local nobleman.

As Norway was a separate kingdom, with its own laws and institutions, the position of steward of Norway was arguably the most influential position for a Danish Norwegian nobleman or royal to hold, second to the King.

Most of these wars were fought over the title of count of Holland, but some have argued that the underlying reason was because of the power struggle of the bourgeois in the cities against the ruling nobility.

The Latin original was translated first into French, the language of the nobility, and then into English. By the end of the century, peasants were citing it in a struggle against injustice.

DURHAM In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30 year discrepancy between the life expectancy of men in the poorest social classes and that of the gentry.

Plot In 1821, Don Diego de la Vega, a Spanish nobleman, fights against Spain in the Mexican War of Independence as Zorro, a mysterious avenger defending the Mexican peasants and commoners of Las Californias.

However, it was different from Götaland and Svealand, but not Norrland, in that Swedish was not the majority language in this part of the kingdom, except for some areas along the coastline and amongst the nobility and the urban upper classes.

It would seem that various collective methods, perhaps instances of what Thorkild Jacobsen called primitive democracy, in which disputes were previously resolved through a council of one's peers, were no longer sufficient for the needs of the local community.

All peers must now publicly promise to be honest. Only one had the guts to stand up and say that he found the new procedure degrading.

The war was clearly initiated by Sweden, and in the view of a strong opinion, particularly among noble officers, a clear violation of the authoritarian Instrument of Government that the king, with support of the common estates of the parliament had imposed in 1772.

The lack of recipes for many basic vegetable dishes, such as potages, has been interpreted not to mean that they were absent from the meals of the nobility, but rather that they were considered so basic that they did not require recording.