Admission to the order is determined if the applicant has noble ancestry.

Changes have been made so that maternal grandparents are included in verifying noble ancestry.

An Arab, he is proud of his noble ancestry and traditions of generosity.

The actors seemed to pay "tribute to a noble ancestry" and plea for the respect of the audience.

As in other parts of the world, claiming noble ancestry could reinforce a ruler.

He derived from a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had a noble and royal ancestry.

It's a noble ancestry, though it's come down a bit in the world.

To become a member one must prove noble ancestry.

He was born to a family of noble ancestry, but limited resources, in Bologna.

It was maintained that one must be of noble ancestry in order to represent an autonomous state within the international arena.