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 | | Isaac Lopes Suasso was made baron of Avernas de Gras by Carlos II of Spain on July 3, 1676 (arms: Or a lion gules, armed tongued and crowned azure). |
 | | Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950). |
 | | Maurice Koenigswarter ennobled in Austria in 1860 and made baron in 1870; his brother Maximilien-Jules (1817-78), naturalized French in 1848, baron in 1870: Quarterly: 1,Or five arrows sable in a bundle bound gules; 2 and 3, Azure a lion or tongued argent; 4, Or a dove proper holding in its beak an olive branch vert. |
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