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[citation needed] The eldest son of the eldest son of a duke or marquess may use a still lower title, if one exists. In legal documents, the courtesy title is implied, but not used directly – that is, the name of the person is given, followed by "commonly called [title]". For example, the Duke of Norfolk is also Earl of Arundel and Baron ...
Earl (/ ɜːr l, ɜːr əl /) [1] is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. [2] A feminine form of earl never developed; [note 1] instead, countess is used. The title originates in the Old English word eorl, meaning "a man of noble birth ...
The two are not to be confused. Historically, they were held by one and the same person, but the baronage title may subsequently have been disponed according to Scots property law, whereas the peerage title always descends according to the destination in the letters patent of creation of the peerage and the rules of peerage law.
This title ranks above a baron and below an earl. FYI, "viscount" is derived from the Old French term, "visconte", which itself comes from the Latin root "vicecomitem," meaning "deputy" or ...
The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom follow English law; the difference between them is that peerages of England were created before the Act of Union 1707, peerages of Great Britain between 1707 and the Union with Ireland in 1800, and peerages of the United Kingdom since 1800.
Earl Jermyn* Lord Hervey: The Marquess of Ailsa: Earl of Cassilis* Lord Kennedy The Marquess of Normanby: Earl of Mulgrave* Lord Phipps The Marquess of Abergavenny: Earl of Lewes: Viscount Nevill The Marquess of Zetland: Earl of Ronaldshay* Lord Dundas The Marquess of Linlithgow: Earl of Hopetoun* Viscount Aithrie* The Marquess of Aberdeen and ...
The title was not derived from the name of a place, but from the family name de Redvers, or Reviers, Earls of Devon. Earl Ferrers was created in 1711 for Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers, whose earlier title was named after the de Ferrers family, or Norman origin. Another early example of a surname being used as a title is Earl Poulett (1706).
The Earldom of Mar is the oldest extant title in Great Britain, and probably in Europe. The origins of the title are unclear, but is known that in 1404, a man named Alexander Stewart forced the suo jure Countess, Isabel Douglas, to sign a charter conveying the peerage to him and his heirs. Later, the countess married Stewart and revoked the old ...