Could someone please detail all the different ranks of royalty for me?

Question

you have the King and queen, prince and princess, where do the earls and barons and counts (and all the others) all fit in? i need this information for a novel i'm writing.

Thanks so much
Tylene

Answer 1

The only *royal* titles are king and queen, prince and princess, and royal duke. People here are confusing nobility and royalty. The thousands of peers - barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes (listed from lowest to highest) - in this country are noble but not royal, aside from four of the dukes and the Earl of Wessex.

Contessa is not up to her usual accurate standards; first by using the spelling 'marquis' which is only for Scottish titles, and with her claim that dukes' sons are marquesses, etc. This is not a universal rule: for example the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester are both earls.

After the peerage are baronets (hereditary knights) and knights, both called 'Sir' and whose wives are called 'Lady Lastname', not 'Lady Firstname Lastname'. The female equivalent of a knight is Lady (preceding the first name) for the Orders of the Garter and Thistle, or Dame (for lesser orders of knighthood).

Count is the European equivalent to Earl. Pay no attention to Nica's answer. None of these titles come with any terrritorial responsibility.

Answer 2

There is five ranks of the British Peerage
Duke
Marquis
Earl= In Europen a Count is equal to an Earl
Viscount
Baron

A son of a Duke is a Marquis
A son of a Marquis is an Earl
The son of a Earl is a Viscount
The son of a Viscount doesn't have a title he called a Honourable
Same for Baron sons, and daughters
Honourable Mary Moore etc.
When meeting an honourable you don't address as honourable
only when been Introduce to them, or writting a letter to them
To the Honourable James Moore.
A Duke is address as Your Grace
The rest is address as your Lordship

Answer 3

the line of succession is somewhat diverse from the order of priority,it truly is what searching ahead to gave you. The succession went to the King's eldest son. If the eldest son died earlier the King yet had toddlers, the eldest son's eldest son succeeded. and so on. If the King had no toddlers in any respect, the succession went to his next brother, or his next brother's son if the brother predeceased him. interior the middle a lengthy time period, a king mandatory to be a conflict chief. for that reason, females might want to no longer in many cases take the throne of their own right (Matilda, the daughter of Henry I, tried it and were given the frenzy interior the twelfth century), yet in England they could transmit a declare to their descendants. in a lot of alternative ecu international places, e.g. France, females couldn't even attempt this, and no declare to the throne might want to be made by technique of the descendants of the daughter or sister of a king. (This became called the "Salic regulation" and became the reason of the only hundred Years' conflict.) Dukes, duchesses, females and lords had no longer something to do with the royal line of succession, *till* they were right away descended from a king. Having a peerage call did not in itself make you something to do with royalty.

Answer 4

you forgot dukes. Earls and Dukes over see areas of the commonwealth i.e. Wales is part of the Brit Commonwealth. Barons or Counts would be large land owners with money and power but they all answer to the King/Queen respectively. Before you write a book you should really do your research

Answer 5

Emperor/Empress (depending on weather it's a patriarchy or matriarchy)
King/Queen
Prince/Princess
Duke
Earl
Count
Lord


I think

Answer 6

Look at this website which I found

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_and_noble_ranks