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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.
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
Alexander family (British aristocracy) (31 P) Allsopp family (1 C, 9 P) Annesley family (36 P) Anson family (35 P) Arbuthnot family (66 P) Armstrong-Jones family (2 C ...
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...
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.
The majority of the surviving pedigrees trace the families of Anglo-Saxon royalty to Woden.The euhemerizing treatment of Woden as the common ancestor of the royal houses is presumably a "late innovation" within the genealogical tradition which developed in the wake of the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons.
Hugh Grosvenor is just 28 years old and has a fortune of over £10bn and is far richer than the Queen.
A. Anne Grey, Baroness Hussey; Arthur, Prince of Wales; Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel; Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel; Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel