The House of Nobility is now a private institution, run as any private corporation under civil commercial law, and is owned by its members.
Even when a family was ennobled by the Swedish monarch, it still had to seek introduction at the House of Nobility to achieve such status.
The Finnish House of Nobility as corporation owns, since 1857, the assembly building completed in 1862.
The family was introduced into the House of Nobility on 20 March 1819 meaning that only the head of the family has noble grace.
In the 1860s, all the estates met in the Finnish House of Nobility.
Regarding certain districts where there existed a disproportionally high number of such families, their introduction to the House of Nobility was often denied.
House of Nobility can refer to the following historical Nordic noble estate's assemblies:
The family has also been introduced in the Estonian and Latvian Houses of Nobility.
The Makeléers are Swedish House of Nobility family 513.
Posse began his political career as a member of the House of Nobility at the Parliament of 1856-58.