Sentence examples for Royal descent from inspiring English sources

In recognition of Pole's royal descent, his cousin, Henry VIII, paid for Pole's education at Oxford University and at Padua, Italy, and gave him minor offices in the church.

Lorenzo Borghese, a pilot of Italian royal descent who appeared in the ninth season of "The Bachelor" on ABC, recently hopped on a helicopter to the Hamptons to check out an $8.9 million estate he was interested in buying.

Was he born to it, this child of royal descent?

While a duke inherits the title, he does not have to be of royal descent.

This was actually a private foundation, built some 12 miles from Angkor by a Brahmin of royal descent.

While his father disclaimed royal descent, Nebuchadrezzar claimed the third-millennium Akkadian ruler Naram-Sin as ancestor.

The red dragon was then included in the Tudor royal arms to signify their Welsh descent.

Probably of Welsh descent, Map studied at the University of Paris from about 1154 to 1160.

His father, Eduardo Hughes, was a civil servant of Italian and Welsh descent.

Nowhere is this more disturbing than the US descent into barbarism.

HUDSON Nicole Fiacco Gallery "Post-Identity," works by artists of Native American descent.