At this time most of the regional nobility were closely linked through kinship, and this behaviour towards their relatives was regarded as unacceptable.

María's family, members of the regional nobility, originally came from the area of Padilla de Abajo, near Castrojeriz in the province of Burgos.

The Jagellonians governed Bohemia as absentee monarchs; their influence in the kingdom was minimal, and effective government fell to the regional nobility.

The princes appointed officers, such as dewan and other state level ministers, to run their administrations, who were considered members of the regional nobility.

The regional nobility, although forced to send their children to Cuzco for education, continued to hold private property.

Sometime between 1075 and 1080, he was forcibly exiled from Groitzsch by the regional nobility, who opposed his colonisation movements.

These had been called in by the regional nobility of Provence in a military capacity, probably fearing Charles' expansionist ambitions.

The king derived further freedom of manoeuvre from the existence below this "imperial aristocracy" of a lower stratum of regional nobility.

Entstehung dealt with the rise of the regional nobility in central Germany following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire.

Originally held in personal union with Amorbach Abbey in the Odenwald, by the 9th century the bishopric had become a political football for the regional nobility.