Nobility
- Jordan I of Capua (died 1091), Prince of Capua
- Jordan of Hauteville (died 1092), Count of Syracuse
- William-Jordan (died 1109), Count of Cerdagne and Tripoli
- Jordan II of Capua (died 1127), Prince of Capua
- Jordan of Ariano (died 1127), Norman count
- Alfonso Jordan (died 1148), count of Toulouse and Tripoli
- Jordan Pierleoni, leader of the Commune of Rome
- Jordan de Exeter (died 1258), fought at First Battle of Athenry
- Jordan Lancia (died 1268), victor of Battle of Montaperti
- Jordan IV of L'Isle-Jourdain (died 1288), troubadour
- Jordan Óge de Exeter (died 1319), Anglo-Irish sheriff
- Bernard IV Jordan of L'Isle-Jourdain (died 1340), Crusader
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Famous quotes containing the word nobility:
“The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.”
—Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)
“Something has ceased to come along with me.
Something like a person: something very like one.
And there was no nobility in it
Or anything like that.”
—Jon Silkin (b. 1930)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)