The court ranks of Japan, also known in Japanese as ikai (位階), are indications of an individual's court rank in Japan based on the system of the state...

Wohlgeboren List of Japanese court ranks, positions and hereditary titles History of Russian military ranks In case of "His/Her Majesty's highest of all protégé"...

Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are nobility titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular...

common honorary titles include Knighthood, Damehood, and Companion of Honour. These titles are granted by the monarch and are not hereditary. The word monarch...

titles, the highest ranks of the aristocracy, by being adopted into the Konoe family and formally becoming an aristocrat. He then passed the position...

system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles, composed of various ranks, and within the framework of the Constitution of the United Kingdom form...

Cardinal Cushing – or clerical titles such as Archbishop). Some titles are hereditary. Titles include: Honorific titles or styles of address, a phrase used to...

The ranks of imperial consorts have varied over the course of Chinese history but remained important throughout owing to its prominence in the management...

offices of their counts and viscounts from becoming hereditary, in order to consolidate their position and limit chance of rebellion. The title was in...

no definite noble titles (titles of hereditary rulers being distinct from those of hereditary intermediaries between monarchs and commoners). Persons...