A few dozen of Strahd's illustrious ancestors slept their last sleep here.
I might also add that four of us are currently named Gilbert, after one of our more illustrious ancestors.
John, unlike his illustrious ancestors, is poor and powerless.
Over the fireplace in the drawing room hung a large old painting of what was not but looked like an illustrious ancestor.
Stories taught that his illustrious ancestor had crossed rough, rocky country clear to the eastern sea.
And you'd be advised to live your life in a way that gives honor to such illustrious ancestors.
To a Roman of any kind, illustrious ancestors mattered more than anything else.
As an illustrious ancestor used to say: 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.
'Our illustrious ancestors,' Feargal said softly from close behind her.
Like his illustrious ancestors, he grew up in a multitalented household.