Illustrious Highness
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His/Her Illustrious Highness (
Hoheit, a higher style that appertained to sovereign dukes
and some other royalty.
Usage
Ancient
"Illustrious Highness" is used to translate the
Princes of the Holy Roman Empire
).
Modern
From the
Reichsgrafen) who, like the Reichsfürsten, held the status of Imperial immediacy
.
They retained it even after the Bundesversammlung of the German Confederation
in 1828.
The style was also adopted by the cadet members of some princely families like
Waldeck-Pyrmont. Mediate comital families were entitled to the lower style, Hochgeboren
.
Erlaucht is sometimes used to translate the Russian word Siyatelstvo (Сиятельство), a style used by members of some Russian princely families (also sometimes translated as
Imperial Russia
, the Russian princely counts hold the style of Illustriousness, often translated as "Illustrious Highness".
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