Rumania, once a mere princedom attached to the Sultanate of Turkey, won independence and the rank of Kingdom under her first Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881.
The pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism.
Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff and then a princedom "for the dog to run in.