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In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, a marquess ranks below a duke and above an earl. A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness / ˌ m ɑː r ʃ ə ˈ n ɛ s /. [4] The dignity, rank, or position of the title is a marquisate or marquessate.
Maréchal - Marshall or Peer of France, the highest hereditary rank borne by the nobility. It was also awarded as a non-hereditary rank. Marquis - possessor of a 'vicomté. Comte - possessor of a county or 'comté or title given by the monarch. Vicomte - a title used for a noble of varying status. The status and any domain held by a viscount is ...
Authentic titles are understood to mean titles erected by letters patent of the Sovereign (the King, or the Emperor Napoleon III, or possibly a foreign sovereign whose lands have become French), registered or published with a court of justice or sovereign (parliament, court of auditors, etc.), or even subordinate, which gives them a legal and permanent status.
The rank of Général de corps d'armée wasn't officially adopted until 1939, along with five other French Armed Forces ranks. It must also be noted that Army corps general and Army general are not really ranks, but styles and positions ( Rang et appellation in french) bestowed upon a Divisional general, which is the highest substantive rank in ...
The actual rank of a title-holder in Germany depended not only on the nominal rank of the title, but also the degree of sovereignty exercised, the rank of the title-holder's suzerain, and the length of time the family possessed its status within the nobility (Uradel, Briefadel, altfürstliche, neufürstliche, see: German nobility).
Heraldic depiction of a duke's coronet, with blue bonnet of a peer Coronet and mantle of a duke and peer of France, shown here with the collars of the Ordres du roi. For an explanation of the French peerage, see the article Peerage of France.
Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue (French pronunciation: [ʃasœʁ vɔlɔ̃tɛʁ də sɛ̃ dɔmɛ̃ɡ], lit. ' Volunteer Jäger of Saint-Domingue ') was a Creole regiment from Saint-Domingue that was founded on 12 March 1779.
The listed rank Marquise is actually the French word for the feminine of Marquis, and in my opinion should be removed (along with all of the other female equivalents of the ranks). Non-English words for the various ranks are listed in the table of translations for the ranks included in the article Royal and noble ranks , where they should ...