Nobility
The title was created by King William I of the Netherlands for Field Marshal The 1st Duke of Wellington as a victory title in recognition of defeating Emperor Napoléon I of the French at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The 1st Duke of Wellington and all his descendants belong to the Dutch nobility, in which all the descendant dukes have the title of Prince of Waterloo (Prins van Waterloo) and the rest of their family the Dutch honorific Jonkheer or Jonkvrouw.
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Famous quotes containing the word nobility:
“If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
—Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)
“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“The cloud was so dark that it needed all the bright lights that could be turned upon it. But for four years there was a contagion of nobility in the land, and the best blood North and South poured itself out a libation to propitiate the deities of Truth and Justice. The great sin of slavery was washed out, but at what a cost!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)