Yeah 100%. Example: Luxembourg. Our grand duke has no real power anymore but its still a symbol of our independence. Basically we got out of the personal union of the netherlands thanks to heredity issues. Then the grand duchy played a symbolic role in ww2.
And if you go far back, the House of Luxrmbourg-Ardennes (not be confused with current House of Weilburg-Nassau, nor with the House of Luxembourg during the 1300s) literally founded the country in 963. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes Not a duke, not a grand duke, but a count.
.. The name Luxembourg comes from "lucilinburhuc", little castle. Thats the castle Siegried built in 963 (today smacldab in the middle of Luxembourg City).
"By the 959 partition of Lotharingia, the Luxembourg region had passed to Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine of the House of Ardenne–Bar, a son of Count Palatine Wigeric of Lotharingia. In 963, Count Siegfried, probably a younger brother of Duke Frederick I, purchased some land from Abbot Wikerus of St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier. This land was centered on a ruined (supposedly Roman) fort by the Old High German name of Lucilinburhuc (commonly translated as "little castle"). In the following years, Count Siegfried had a new castle built on the site of these ruins, on a rock that would later be called Bock Fiels. This castle dominated a stretch of the old Roman road linking Reims, Arlon, and Trier, and opened some prospects for trade and taxation. Despite this new construction, it seems that Siegfried and his immediate successors did not make the castle their primary residence. The history of Luxembourg proper began with the construction of this castle"
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u/Dunkleosteus666 Luxembourg May 20 '25
Yeah 100%. Example: Luxembourg. Our grand duke has no real power anymore but its still a symbol of our independence. Basically we got out of the personal union of the netherlands thanks to heredity issues. Then the grand duchy played a symbolic role in ww2.
And if you go far back, the House of Luxrmbourg-Ardennes (not be confused with current House of Weilburg-Nassau, nor with the House of Luxembourg during the 1300s) literally founded the country in 963. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes Not a duke, not a grand duke, but a count.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Luxembourg#Counts_of_Luxembourg
Also feel proud to be the last remaining grand duchy haha. But basically again, were not Liechtenstein, monarch hasnt gotten any real powers.