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Titles

November 22, 2024 by judeknight

Titles and inheritance

I saw it again, today. The idea that a duke can decide not to leave his title to his eldest legitimate son. Wrong! That isn’t true, even today.

He might be able to strip the title of any unentailed property and leave that to someone else. But the title and the entailed property do not belong to the duke (or other peer), but are held in trust for his descendants.

 

Posted in Footnotes on Friday | Tagged entails, heirs of peers, inheritance, peers, Titles | 2 Comments
November 18, 2022 by judeknight

Those pesky titles!

I made a thing, for those of you who wonder about titles. Those of you who already know, tell me if you see any errors!

 

Except for those few rare women who inherited a title in their own right, or those with a courtesy title who married “down”, women took their husband’s title as well as his name.

Please feel free to download and share the images:

Titles for men: https://judeknightauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1-1.png

Titles for women: https://judeknightauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2-1.png

 

Posted in Footnotes on Friday | Tagged courtesy titles, Titles, titles of daughters, titles of sons, titles of wives, titles of younger sons | Leave a comment

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