Posted by Radu
on 4/9/2009, 18:22:59, in reply to "Re: Lords and heirs and their titles"
89.136.181.58
I probably made an undocumented generalisation and then began to think I read it somewhere. Sorry.
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: I believe you are mistaken. The eldest son of
: the Earl of Devon is styled Lord Courtenay,
: even though the Earl has no barony of that
: name, and similarly the eldest son of the
: Earl of Guilford is styled Lord North. The
: eldest son of the Earl of Huntingdon, who
: has no subsidiary titles, is styled Viscount
: Hastings to avoid confusion with the
: substantive peer Lord Hastings. The Earl
: Castle Stewart's heir uses the style
: Viscount Stewart in order to avoid confusion
: with the Lord Stewart, eldest son of the
: Viscount Castlereagh, eldest son of the
: Marquess of Londonderry. The Earl and the
: Marquess are both scions of the House of
: Stewart. The title of Earl of Devon was
: created several times in the Peerage of
: England, and was possessed first by the de
: Redvers (de Reviers) family, and later for
: the Courtenay.
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