Social Hierarchy
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The Gentry is the aristocracy with Lords at the highest rank. It also contains two other classifications other than the lords: knights/baronets and esquires. | The Gentry is the aristocracy with Lords at the highest rank. It also contains two other classifications other than the lords: knights/baronets and esquires. | ||
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| + | ===Peers=== | ||
| + | A peerage means that an individual holds by name a title associated with a large tract of land, like a barony or duchy. Dukes, Marquesses, Counts, Viscounts and Barons are all considered peers to whatever king a nation has because he has taken them (or their ancestors) as personal friends whom he has bestowed grants of his land upon. A small technicality is that in formal address a duke alone among peers is not referred to as "My lord" but "Your Grace", but in all other respects a duke is considered a "liege lord". As Duke of Wessex I would fall into this category. | ||
===Knight=== | ===Knight=== | ||
