Sentence examples for ruling house from inspiring English sources

Capetian dynasty, ruling house of France from 987 to 1328, during the feudal period of the Middle Ages.

Saxon Dynasty, also called Liudolfing Dynasty, ruling house of German kings (Holy Roman emperors) from 919 to 1024.

Toungoo Dynasty, also spelled Taungu, ruling house in Myanmar (Burma) from the 15th or 16th to the 18th century, whose reign is known as the Second Burmese Empire.

[15] The Italian monarchy was abolished by referendum in 1946, in part because of its association with Fascism, and members of the formerly ruling house were barred from Italian soil until 2003.

These wars marked the start of Valois rivalry with the Habsburgs (ruling house of the Holy Roman Empire), a rivalry which lasted until the end of the French dynasty.

He was a member of the House of Braganza, the ruling house of Portugal and Brazil.

Through the Tudors inter-marrying with the House of Stuart Rhys is an ancestor to the current ruling house of the United Kingdom and also an ancestor of several ruling houses in Europe.

In Saudi Arabia, the documentary contends, the corruption of the ruling House of Saud inspired Islamist opponents.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS about the arrest in Saudi Arabia of dissident Muhammad al-Masari, and the opposition movement to the ruling House of Saud.

In the 17th century they were mostly yellow or purple, but were bred to be orange by Dutch farmers in tribute to the ruling House of Orange.

In any case, the Saudis are unlikely to woo Americans and Europeans, since the idea of Western infidels trampling across Saudi soil upsets the clerics of the strict Wahhabi sect that props up the ruling House of Saud.