• Thumbnail for Marquess
    titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan. The word marquess entered the English language from the...
    11 KB (1,320 words) - 13:59, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legion of Honour
    office. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: Chevalier (Knight), Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand officier (Grand...
    53 KB (4,742 words) - 06:45, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Viscount
    Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count). During the Carolingian...
    19 KB (2,131 words) - 17:24, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Auguste Chevalier (French: [mɔʁis ʃəvalje]; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is perhaps best...
    34 KB (4,001 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2024
  • Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...
    70 KB (9,112 words) - 11:01, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for King
    Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony, with the Prussian king also holding the Imperial title. Pine, L.G. (1992). Titles: How the King became His Majesty. New...
    16 KB (1,490 words) - 13:57, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alhambra-Maurice Chevalier
    it was actually called the Cirque-Impérial—it was only in 1956 that Jane Breteau renamed it Alhambra-Maurice Chevalier, in honor of the beloved French actor...
    2 KB (98 words) - 06:22, 22 May 2021
  • was originally an office of the imperial household, later evolving into the title reserved for husbands of imperial princesses. These princes consort...
    14 KB (1,715 words) - 17:59, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chevalier Guard Regiment
    Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky Regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard infantry. The Chevalier Guards were countercharged and defeated by the French Horse...
    5 KB (397 words) - 19:04, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Esquire
    Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet, Baronetess Fidalgo Nobile Knight, Chevalier Imperial Knight Druzhinnik Esquire Gentleman, Gentlewoman Ministerialis Lord...
    38 KB (4,520 words) - 00:22, 20 April 2024