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On 3 August 1841, Servais was named one of nine representatives of Luxembourg that convened in The Hague to advise the King-Grand Duke on its formulation.
He was then appointed, by the grand duke Ferdinand I, to lecture upon the civil law in general, after the manner of Jacques Cujas.
Originally applied to the rulers of Kievan Rus' and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it later referred to the children of the Russian Tsars, whose title is translated into English as grand duke.
The breakthrough ceremony was held on 12 December 2002, with Grand Duke Henri detonating the explosive charge that connected the two ends of the tunnels.
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817–1905), Duke of Nassau and later Grand Duke of Luxembourg
The Verein was responsible for the large emigration of Germans to Texas in the 19th Century, and on January 9, 1843, established the 4,428 acre Nassau Plantation in Fayette County, Texas and named it after the Grand Duke.
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich) (24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was the first monarch of Luxembourg from the House of Nassau-Weilburg.
He passed one year in the Dzerzhinsky Academy in Leningrad (today's "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich") he moved to Odessa to work as customs official.
Duke Anton-Günther is a grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II.
In 1247, when their father died, Andrey and Alexander went to Karakorum in Mongolia, where Andrey was appointed the next Grand Duke of Vladimir by Guyuk khan.
Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (1589–1631), daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria, and Maria Anna of Bavaria, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
English translation: August III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (i.e. Galicia), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.
Ferdinando, a lover and patron of music, was the son and heir of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He coincided with the final months of Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last Medici Grand Duke.
Samogitian Borejko (Lithuanian: Bareika) won the challenge and was generously rewarded by the Grand Duke.
Janusz Gajos as Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov: Polish Grand Duke of Russian ancestry who frequently called upon Chopin.
As a grandchild of a Russian Grand Duke, he is an Associate Member of the Romanov Family Association.
However, it is also the case that all the other monarchs currently reigning in Europe – King Albert II of Belgium, Grand-Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Queen Elizabeth II of the U.K., Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Harald V of Norway, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands – descend from Isabella I and Ferdinand II.
He was born in Ludwigslust the second child of the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV and his wife Princess Alexandra of Hanover a daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover and Princess Thyra of Denmark.
Christian is a great-grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II and through his mother he is related to the Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, who belong to a morganatic branch of the House of Wittelsbach descending from Frederick I, Elector Palatine.
In 1646 he undertook a mission to Milan to pay respects on behalf of the Grand Duke to the new governor, Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frías.
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, (1610–1670), Grand Duke of Tuscany 1621–1670
He made his way up through the clerical ranks as Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature of Justice and of Grace (1580), and later went to serve the grand-duke of Tuscany, the former Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici.
In 1593, he was called by Cosimo de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Pisa.
Eventually, after a total of six court cases, costing the federal government some A$22 million, the courts ruled that The Grand Duke of Avram had not engaged in any illegal activity, and ordered the return of all the confiscated property, however some disappeared in Federal Custody and later appeared on the market.
In the next year he appointed his infant nephew, Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte (1804–1831), the elder son of Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, Grand Duke of Berg; French bureaucrats under Pierre Louis Roederer administered the territory in his name.
Once a Grand Duke (Farrar & Rinehart 1933) is a source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half-century.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863-1919), grandson of Nicholas I and son of Grand duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia.
The Grand Duke actually appeared in his last play, "King of Judea," playing the role of Joseph of Arimathea.
Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891–1918), son of the above Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich
The author's aim in this work was to glorify Josephinism, the justification of the reforms carried out in Tuscany under the auspices of grand duke Pietro Leopold I of Tuscany, brother of Joseph II.
During his stay in Florence, he had access to the archives and library of Bishop Ricci - minister-counsellor of the Grand-Duke of Habsbourg - it was there that he gathered the materials for a third work, Vie de Scipion de Ricci, évêque de Pistoie et de Prato (Life of Scipione de' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and of Prato).
She was the eldest child and only daughter of John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, by his wife Marie Louise Gonzaga.
Upon the Grand Duke's return from France to St. Petersburg in 1905, Marianne also gained two siblings, children of her stepfather's first marriage, whom she had not previously known: a step-sister, the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, and a step-brother, the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich of Russia.
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1803–1862), daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and consort of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854–1920), daughter of Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Augusta of Reuss-Köstritz
This so-called "collegiate church" was erected in 1561 by Pope Pius IV and the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici appointed Benedetto Varchi as the first magistrate of this church.
Again damaged in 1557, it was remade by will of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, who assigned the project to Bartolomeo Ammannati.
In December 1918, Prince Andrei left Russia with his wife Elibeta Ruffo Di Saint Antimo, who was pregnant with their first child, and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Marlborough in order to attend the Paris Peace Conference, looking support in western Europe for the White Army.
Prince Félix of Luxembourg (born 1984), son of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and his wife, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (1902–1978), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
As women slowly gained more autonomy and respect in European history, the title of princess became simply the female counterpart of prince; it does not necessarily imply being merely married to a prince, she may be the unmarried daughter of a monarch or other royal or noble of sufficient rank (king, queen, prince, grand duke, duke, or other).
The crash figures in the plot of A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer, where Grand Duke Georg has in his possession the jewels of his aunt, the last Tsaritsa of Russia, which the KGB are looking for.
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, daughter of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and wife of Princess Heinrich VII Reuss of Köstritz
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892–1981), daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Militza
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1808–1877), wife of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Sigismund II Augustus (1520 – 1572), King of Poland and Grand Duke Sigismund III of Lithuania
The spinnettoni that Cristofori built were intended for the Medici family of Florence, more specifically for his patron Prince Ferdinando, the son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and heir to the Tuscan throne.
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Princess Tessy of Luxembourg (born 1985), the wife of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, son of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
The Vasari Corridor was built in 5 months by order of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1564, to the design of Giorgio Vasari.
At the end of the 18th century, Grand Duke Ferdinand III leased the villa to King Charles Emanuel IV of Sardinia.