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Babu, Indian title, equivalent of Duke, feminine is Babuain; Marquess, Margrave, or Marquis (literally "Count of a March" (=Border territory)) was the ruler of a marquessate, margraviate, or march. The female equivalent is Marchioness, Margravine, or Marquise. Grand Župan, a more influential Župan.
Duchess is a rank of nobility, the female equivalent of Duke. Duchess may also refer to: Arts and entertainment. Fictional characters. Duchess ...
In most countries, the word duchess is the female equivalent. A portrait of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos wearing the robes of the British peerage. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a dux became the military commander in each province.
Nobles of the rank of duke used Monsieur le duc/Madame la duchesse, non-royal princes used Prince/Princesse (without the Monsieur/Madame), other noblemen plain Monsieur and Madame. Only servants ever addressed their employer as Monsieur le comte or Madame la baronne .
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
Some titles of nobility outside Europe may be considered as equivalents of Duke. Like other major Western noble titles, duke is sometimes used to render (translate) certain titles in non-western languages. "Duke" is used even though those titles are generally etymologically and often historically unrelated and thus hard to compare.
The German-language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness (/ m ɑː (r) ˈ ʃ ə n ɛ s / [3]) or marquise (French: ⓘ). These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan.
The jurisdiction of a landgrave was a landgraviate (German: Landgrafschaft), and the wife of a landgrave or a female landgrave was known as a landgravine (from the German Landgräfin, Gräfin being the feminine form of Graf) The term was also used in the Carolinas (what is now North and South Carolina in the United States) during British rule ...