ennoblement

He died of the plague, the year after his ennoblement.

The date and circumstances of his ennoblement are not clear.

The coat of arms was received upon the ennoblement in 1721.

In 1551 he was rewarded with a grant of ennoblement.

Some sources claim that he received ennoblement from the king after his return in ca. 1573.

They could get freedom or even ennoblement for bravery in war.

Some of these families declined ennoblement because they did not keep a title in such high regard.

Ennoblement, here, doesn't mean quite the same thing as flattery.

From this moment he added this part to his name, as was the fashion of the time, even without ennoblement.

X is often the holder's surname at the point of ennoblement, but it need not be.

Upon his ennoblement in 1716, he received the name Tordenskiold.

But for Syria, the Clinton visit is a delicious American ennoblement.

We continue to defy the call of instinct, often to our peril, but also to our ennoblement.

When he applied for ennoblement, he claimed that these two families were originally noble.

After his ennoblement, Linnaeus continued teaching and writing.

Sometimes officers were rewarded with lands and ennoblement.

The Sovereign can also recognize an ennoblement conceded to one of his subjects by a foreign sovereign.

Hereditary Belgian ennoblement, with the personal title of knight (2009)

The post-independence constitution of 1919 forbade ennoblement, and all tax privileges were abolished in 1920.

The last ennoblement was 1912.

Van Cliburn himself makes some speeches, one about Plato, music, mathematics, spirituality and ennoblement.

The arms, which were granted upon the ennoblement, are partly based on Munthe's old arms.

In 1576, the right of ennoblement, except in wartime, was passed from the king to the sejm.

His ennoblement ended his active political career.

The requisite ground for introduction to the rolls of nobility was either birth into an "ancient" noble family, or ennoblement by the king.