| Membership was limited to 600 and included five dukes, five marquesses and 20 earls, and the clientele would bet thousands at the tables. |
| Seven of Edward's ten earls possessed Marcher estates, including the powerful Mortimer, Fitzalan, Bohun and de Clare families. |
| The rule of the earls and the dukes of Urbino triggered a period of civil and cultural development that became apparent during the signory of Federico di Montefeltro. |
| The men who got these parcels of land would have been barons, earls and dukes. |
| Godiva was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, one of the three great earls of 11th-century England. |
| Cascades of earls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and tortoiseshell hatpins, 76 items in all, poured out. |
