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Howard family (English aristocracy) (9 C, 229 P) ... (surname) Wolfson family ... Noble families of the United Kingdom.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they ...
This category is for English gentry families, namely historically prominent English families, generally connected with the local administration of a particular county. They are regarded as the families of the minor nobility, as opposed to families which held an hereditary peerage, often regarded as the major nobility
Noble is an English surname which commonly appears in multiple areas of the United Kingdom. The surname first appears in 1199, during the reign of Richard I and it is common in Edinburgh , Scotland .
The titled nobility of England and Ireland consisted of one rank until 1337, namely that of earl. [3] Edward I (1272–1307) led a restrictive policy on the creation of new earldoms, and at the end of his reign the number of earls was at eleven.
G. Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin; Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton; Elizabeth FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton; Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham
Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.