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Depiction of Kensington Palace Depiction of Henbury Hall. Britannia Illustrata, also known as Views of Several of the Queens Palaces and also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain is a 1707–09 map plate folio of parts of Great Britain, arguably the most important work of Dutch draughtsman Jan Kip, who collaborated with Leonard Knijff.
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles.. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.
John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (Scott, Webster and Geary, London, 1838) Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time (Heritage Books, London, 1840)
A version of the book, "The traveller's guide or, a most exact description of the roads of England", in a smaller format and without any maps, was published in 1699 by Abel Swall. [ 14 ] Ogilby's Britannia inspired and provided the model for Britannia Depicta or Ogilby improv'd published by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen in 1720.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
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.
England & France Master of the knights Templar for England and France Thomas Pinkeney ~1250–1300 Northamptonshire? Relative of Robert de Pinkeney: Richard de Poncelis ~1200–1260 Gascony He was a Bailiff who served under Henry de Turberville in Gascony and quarreled with Hugh de Vivonne in 1234 apparently having been deprived of his ...
Henry VI of England (1421 † 1471), king of England, lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine. In 1422, under the Treaty of Troyes , he was crowned king of France and changed his armouries. Écartelé, aux 1 et 4, d'azur à trois fleurs de lys d'or ( France moderne ) ; aux 2 et 3, de gueules à trois léopards d'or armés et lampassés d'azur ...