Sentence examples for senior nobility from inspiring English sources

In early medieval Navarre and Aragon barón described the senior nobility but later, perhaps under the influence of Castilian practice, it was displaced by ricos hombres— "rich men".

Disputes and suspicions of disloyalty among the boyars (as the senior nobility were known) led Ivan to engage in increasingly strict repression, including the execution of Daniil Adashev, a hero of Russia's 1559 military campaign in Crimea, along with his family.After Adashev's execution, prince Andrei Kurbskiy, formerly a favourite general of Ivan's, defected to the West.

Below the king were a small number of dukes (usually descended from very close relatives of the king) and earls, who formed the senior nobility.

St Briavels Castle passed back and forth between the senior nobility on either side, but without playing a major part in the conflict itself.

In England, Henry initially relied on his father's former advisers whom he brought with him from Normandy, and on some of Henry I's remaining officials, reinforced with some of Stephen's senior nobility who made their peace with Henry in 1153.

When Henry clamped down on a Spanish-backed plot among the senior French nobility in 1602, for example, he detained the ringleader Charles Gontaut, the Duke of Biron, in the Bastille, and had him executed in the courtyard.

Whereas the oligarchs wished to make the Senate an important centre of power and to have it elected by senior officials and country nobility, Stroganov maintained that if this were done the sovereign would have "his arms tied, so that he would no longer be able to carry out the plans which he had in favour of the nation".

Henry was held there over the winter, but in the spring of 1089 the senior elements of the Normandy nobility prevailed upon Robert to release him.

He was considered an extremely successful ruler by his contemporaries, largely able to control the powerful earls that formed the senior ranks of the English nobility.

In addition, other senior members of the Frankish nobility are known to have survived: Nicholas Sanudo, later Duke of the Archipelago, managed to escape the battlefield, and a few others such as Antoine le Flamenc, who is known to have participated in and survived the battle, were probably captured and later ransomed.

The ruling elite in the Hetmanate was composed of the senior Cossack officers, starshyna, who had evolved into a hereditary class approximating the Polish nobility in its privileges.