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|quote = '''''The elite who rule over the worlds of the Imperium, obsessed with power and the politics to maintain that power; they may rule from piles of fur on a barren plain, or from the crystalline windows at the top of a hive spire, but all know the precarious nature of power and the ever-present enemies ready to snatch it from them."{{Fn|16}}'''''
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[[Image:Imperial Nobility Rogue Trader.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Imperial Nobility meet with a [[Rogue Trader]].{{Fn|15}}]]
'''Noble Houses''' are [[Imperial]] families that have been officially recognized as Nobles, by their world's ruling [[Imperial House]], by being given a '''writ of nobility'''.{{Fn|1a}} This also includes the Nobles of [[Knight Houses]].{{Fn|7}}
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook]], pg. 116 — ''The Belasco Deathworks''
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)]], Book Event - Imperial Nobility
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Dark Heresy Core Rulebook (2nd Edition)]], pg. 37
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