Bharatpur and Dholpur were Jat princely states whereas Tonk was a princely state under a Muslim Nawab.

In 1934 Tomasi di Lampedusa's father died, and he inherited his princely title.

Shortly thereafter, she left the country permanently, and the princely couple's marriage was annulled in 1880.

Marwar (Jodhpur), Bikaner, Mewar (Udaipur), Alwar and Dhundhar (Jaipur) were some of the main Rajput princely states.

Brabant had lost its independence, but Brussels became the Princely Capital of the prosperous Low Countries, and flourished.

The first wave of persecutions targeted primarily the princely clans of Russia, notably the influential families of Suzdal .

These wondrous devices found a home in the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammern of the princely courts of Europe.

Her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg, a member of a relatively impoverished princely cadet line.

When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI, he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.

Nehru helped to make the struggle of the people in the princely states a part of the nationalist movement for independence.

In 1947, when India gained independence from the British colonial rule, Cochin was the first princely state to join the Indian Union willingly.

Landmarks The most prominent landmark of Vaduz is Vaduz Castle, the home of the reigning prince of Liechtenstein and the Liechtenstein princely family.

Each æstel was worth the princely sum of 50 mancuses, which fits in well with the quality workmanship and expensive materials of the Alfred jewel .

As independent India s first deputy prime minister and home minister, Patel is credited with the integration of roughly 600 princely states, sometimes by persuasion and sometimes by force.

Albert II (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi born 14 March 1958) is the reigning monarch of the Principality of Monaco, and head of the Princely House of Grimaldi.

They ranged in size from the small and complex territories of the princely Hohenlohe family branches to sizable, well defined territories such as the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Prussia.

The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay.

He spent a year training in various princely duties, and enrolled at Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1977 as Albert Grimaldi, studying political science, economics, music, and English literature, and also joined Chi Psi fraternity.

T. m. bourdilloni , named for Thomas Fulton Bourdillon, Conservator of Forests in the then princely state of Travancore, is a common resident of the hills above 900 metres (3000 ft) in southern Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Tiger hunting took place on a large scale in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a recognised and admired sport by the British in colonial India as well as the maharajas and aristocratic class of the erstwhile princely states of pre independence India.

Ultimate failure of the rebellion The peasant movement ultimately failed, with cities and nobles making a separate peace with the princely armies that restored the old order in a frequently harsher form, under the nominal control of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, represented in German affairs by his younger brother Ferdinand.

Relations with Tibet The Mingshi the official history of the Ming dynasty compiled later by the Qing dynasty in 1739 states that the Ming established itinerant commanderies overseeing Tibetan administration while also renewing titles of ex Yuan dynasty officials from Tibet and conferring new princely titles on leaders of Tibet's Buddhist sects.

However, not wishing to repeat the difficulties of three decades previous, Philip, a few months before his marriage, renounced his princely titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten , which was that of his uncle and mentor, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and itself was adopted by the Viscount's father (Philip's maternal grandfather), Prince Louis of Battenberg, in 1917.

Unofficially, the de facto transition of most of the German speaking populations into a federated organization of states had been developing for some time through alliances formal and informal between princely rulers but in fits and starts, as self interests of parties hampered the process over nearly a century of aristocratic experimentation from the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806) and the subsequent rise of nationalism over the span of the Napoleonic Wars era.