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unusual facts about Honorific title


Ursula Katharina Lubomirska

This title was only honorific, because only national Princes had seats and votes in the Reichstag.


Mu'izz al-Dawla

The Caliph Al-Mustakfi also gave him the honorific title of "Mu'izz al-Dawla" ("Glorifier of the State").

Natchez people

Related to this is the idea that the Honored category was not a social class but rather an honorific title given to commoner men and was not hereditary.


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Duke of Lauenburg

After the death of the last ruling duke, William I (who after 1870 was also German emperor), in 1888, the now purely honorific title was granted to Otto von Bismarck after his dismissal as Chancellor of Germany in 1890.

El Shaddai

The possessive quality of the termination had lost its sense and become the lexical form of both Shaddai and Adonai, similar to how the French word Monsieur changed from meaning "my lord" to being an honorific title.

Georg von Frundsberg

During World War II, the Waffen-SS's 10th Panzer Division was given the honorific title Frundsberg.

Guifeng Zongmi

He was summoned to the capital in 828 by Emperor Wenzong (r. 826-840) and awarded the purple robe and the honorific title "Great Worthy" (ta-te; bhadanta).

Judah Messer Leon

According to tradition the honorific title Messer (a title of knighthood) was bestowed on him by the Emperor Frederick III, during the emperor's first visit to Italy in 1452, perhaps for work for him as a physician.

Laoshi

Rōshi, an honorific title used for a highly venerated senior teacher in Zen Buddhism.

Mohd Hayati Othman

In January 2010, Mohd Hayati was conferred the honorific title of Datuk by Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah.

Rashid Din

In January 2010, Din was conferred the honorific title of Dato' by Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah.

Red Banner

Military units, institutions and organizations (of the Soviet Army, Soviet Navy, MVD Internal Troops, etc.) awarded with the Order of the Red Banner are referred to with the honorific title "of the Red Banner" (Краснознамённый (krasnoznamyonny), e.g. The Red Banner Baltic Fleet or "The Twice Red Banner Alexandrov Soviet Army Choir").

Roman military decorations and punishments

Princeps, "First Citizen" or "Leading Citizen"; an honorific title denoting the status of the emperor as first among equals

Spanish Mosque

This was just one of the several estates given the honorific title of Paigah (meaning pomp and high rank) for the first time by the second Nizam, Nawab Nizam Ali Khan to the Paigah family's founder, Nawab Abul Fateh Khan Taig Jung Bahadur.

Taewonsu

Taewŏnsu (literally grand marshal, usually translated as generalissimo) is the highest possible military rank of North Korea and is intended to be an honorific title for the nation’s Great Leaders.