Posted by Radu
on 3/9/2009, 16:03:43, in reply to "Re: Lords and heirs and their titles"
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: I thought that if there is no courtesy title
: available, the eldest son of a duke,
: marquess, or earl takes the family name as a
: courtesy title, or if that was already
: preempted by another, then a fictious
: courtesy titled was developed.
Courtesy titles in the British system are strictly real titles. They're not called 'courtesy' because they're not created by any monarch ( as is the case in some other noble systems ), but because they're used by someone else than the real holder. If someone would be entitled to a courtesy title but doesn't have any at his disposal, they just have to make do without.
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