Noble Guard

Some of his noble guard had run to join in the attack upon the lion.

A noble guard arrives in America to protect the young princess.

Queen Hora used to use noble guard officers: she had a whole regiment of them.

The faces of the noble guards who carried him, rulers of their own powerful Houses, were expressionless.

They also formed the ceremonial Noble Guard.

Only say the word and I'll trounce these noble guards and minions, and carry you away myself!"

In 1815 he entered the Papal Noble Guard but was soon dismissed after an epileptic seizure.

When the pope was carried in the sedia gestatoria, Noble Guards walked alongside the papal chair.

Behind the bushes, on the walkways, everywhere marching exercises by the soldiers of the Papal Noble Guard.

Noble Guard (Vatican)

In Italy, a Noble Guard was a kind of early modern and modern military guards unit intended for the personal protection of a sovereign, including:

At the elevations of host and chalice, the Silveri symphony was played on the trumpets of the no longer existing Noble Guard.

However, on the day of the German occupation of the Eternal City, the Papal Noble Guard had disappeared.

The Takemikazuchi once were noble guards (that is, they will be in the future, in which this movie takes place) but are reduced now to working as freelance assassins.

Three of these corps, the Palatine Guard, the Noble Guard and the Gendarmery were flat out law-and-order bad asses.

With a well-timed sweep of his ringed fingers, he disbanded the Palatine Guard, Noble Guard and Gendarmery.

Many of these families were members of the largely ceremonial Papal Noble Guard; others were foreigners affiliated with the Holy See in various ways.

The Noble Guard and the Palatine Guard were abolished by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

Captain Commander of the Noble Guard (not hereditary, but always a Roman prince with the rank of Lieutenant General):

In World War II, the Papal Noble Guard guarded the Pope alongside the Swiss Guard.

Exclusively a palace guard, the Noble Guard saw no active military service or combat during the several military campaigns that engaged the Papal States between 1801 and 1870.

He also abolished the Palatine Guard and the Noble Guard, leaving the Swiss Guard as the sole military order of the Vatican.

In 1808 Pope Pius VII ordered the Vatican's Noble Guard and other troops to replace the yellow and red colors with yellow and white.

During the Second World War, the Noble Guard shared responsibility with the Swiss Guard for the personal security of Pope Pius XII.

Ceremonially, they shared duties in the Papal household with the Palatine Guard and Noble Guard, both of which were disbanded in 1970 under Paul VI.