In a letter to Pope John XXII – composed in Latin, naturally – the noblemen of Scotland declared that as long as they remained alive "never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule".
Since Russians were understandably reluctant to settle in such a bleak spot, Peter had to bring them there by force: merchants were forbidden to trade from other cities, and noblemen were required to build houses in the new capital.
Even if Waley's Japanese noblemen sound a little like early-20th-century Cambridge undergraduates, one contemporary Japanese writer famously declared that the Englishman had breathed life into a work that had been tottering around like a headless corpse.
In the castle's heyday, she marvels, the noblemen who inhabited its upper levels built a passage to the adjoining church to avoid mingling with the crowd below.
She also spent stretches in Venice where, as an ageing celebrity, she was a must to visit for the young noblemen doing their grand tour gap-year tour gap-year travellersnd profoked either delightime andgust.
The noblemen wagered on their games, using villages as currency.
Establishing it took the forcible relocation of Russian noblemen and merchants, and cost the lives of many serfs and foreign slaves who were worked to death building it.
And even before the MCC's formation came the code of 1744, compiled by the "noblemen and gentlemen" of the London Club, which played at the artillery ground in the City.
The queen mother wanted to rub out a few Huguenot noblemen, and foolishly misjudged the mood of the Catholic street.Special pleading aside, the biographies do make Mary and Catherine more sympathetic.
Confucius was a shi, one of a class of formerly landed noblemen who had once been similar in status to the medieval European knight but by Confucius's time had lost their social privileges and served as scholar-officials in the government.
In addition, he painted devotional works for other Roman noblemen in del Monte's circle, including The Penitent Magdalene and The Rest on the Flight to Egypt: soft, delicately coloured paintings of a gently lyrical character that would not be repeated in his later work.
