| By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis. |
| The 12 th marquis was an accomplished jazz pianist and his elder son likes to chill out with his guitar. |
| But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility. |
| The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs. |
| In the altarpiece Mantegna portrays the Madonna extending her hand and bestowing special favor on the marquis, who is dressed in full armor. |
| The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count. |
