| But cultured Germans did believe that art ennobled a people, and I would like to believe it too. |
| Installed at Versailles in 1745, she was ennobled as Marquise de Pompadour, and for 20 years swayed state policy, appointing her own favourites. |
| Princess Carissa would marry him at a private assembly afterwards, as soon as the new King publicly ennobled him. |
| The name of Banff, by which the family was afterwards ennobled, seems to be derived from the ancient thanedom of Boyne. |
| Mountbatten's title was therefore a courtesy one until he was ennobled in 1946 as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. |
| For Black, the high point of his life's work came in 2001 when he was ennobled after renouncing his Canadian citizenship. |
