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Viscount



A viscount is a member of the European nobility, especially , as in the British peerage, ranking above a baron, below a (British) earl or (his continental equivalent) count. *Originally, the word derives from the Latin ''vice comes'' an appointed deputy of a count, and ?corresponds in Britain to the Anglo-Saxon sheriff (root of the non-nobiliary, royal-appointed office of Sheriff). . Thus early viscounts were not originally normally given their titles by the monarch, nor hereditary; but soon they too tended to establish hereditary principalities lato sensu. ==in English - the Commonwealth== A viscount is said to hold a "viscounty" or "viscountcy". The female equivalent of a viscount is a ''viscountess''. In the pronunciation of "viscount" and French "''vicomte"'', the 's' is silent, in English pronounced like "vie-count". *In British practice, the title of a viscount may be either a placename, or a surname, or, as is more often the case, a combination thereof. In any event, the style of a viscount is "The Viscount X," or "The Viscount X of Y." Examples include: The Viscount Falmouth (placename); The Viscount Hardinge (surname); The Viscount Gage of Castle Island (surname of placename); and The Viscount Combermere of Bhurtpore (placename of placename). An exception exists for Viscounts in the peerage of Scotland, who are styled "The Viscount ''of'' X," as in: The Viscount of Arbuthnott (surname). Normally, a British viscount is known as ''Lord X'', while his wife is ''Lady X''. The children of a viscount are known as ''The Honourable [Forename] [Surname]''. * A British peculiarity is the use of Viscount as a courtesy title for peers of a higher level (Earl, Marquess or Duke) ==continental forms of the title== *The title of viscount is less common in Italy (''"visconte"''), though the noble Visconti family, rulers of Milan, offer an outstanding example. In Italy, a younger member of a ''conte'' (count)'s family, assigned a fortified ''rocca'' on the outskirts of the territory, would be more likely to be "X, dei conti Y" ("X, of the counts of Y") than Viscount. *In the former kingdom of Portugal a ''visconde'' ranks above a ''barão'' (baron) and below a ''conde''. The first Portuguese viscountcy, that of D. Leonel de Lima, visconde de Vila Nova de Cerveira, dates from the reign of Alfonso V of Portugal. A flood of viscountcies, some 86 new titles, was awarded in Portugal between 1848 and 1880 (Portuguese Wikipedia). *In the kingdom of Spain the title was awarded from the reign of Philip IV of Spain (1621-65; Habsburg dynasty) until 1846. * In various languages we need to verify wether the existing title has actually been awarded there, or is just an empty rendeing of foreign realities. ** Hungarian : ''vikomt'' and even ''vicomte'' (as in french) ==equivalent titles== * There is no etymologically equivalent title of viscount in several languages including German : a ''Baron'' ranks below a ''Graf.'' However, in such case titles of the etymological Burgrave-family (not in countries with a viscount-form, such as Italian ''burgravio'' alongside ''visconte'') could establish themselves at exactly the same level. ** Thus in dutch, ''Burggraaf'' is the rank above Baron, below Graaf (i.e. count) in the kingdoms of the Netherlands and Belgium (here, be law, the official translation, as ''Burggraf'' in German, of the title vicomte in french, the other official language!) * analogous uses for other cultures ? ==Reference== *''Burke's Peerage & Baronetage,'' 1956, introduction, pp cxx-cxxviii. Peerage Viscountcies Titles

Viscount



It's not entirely true that German nobility didn't have a ''viscount''. The German equivalent of Count, ''Graf,'' was not simple -- quite possibly due to Germany's disorganization and the many different kinds of feudal rulers. The term ''Vizegraf'' was used, roughly meaning "vice" or "substitute" count, which corresponds roughly to viscount. However, it is true that viscount was not a standard German title of nobility. To know the example you're thinking of and the place (and the approximate date of the patent or its appearance) would make this truly the exception that proves the rule. --User:Wetman 06:01, 23 May 2005 (UTC) The page on Kakuei Tanaka links here in reference to a Japanese "viscount," but I don't see anything related here. Looking into it. User:12.214.0.127 19:49, 28 May 2005 (UTC)


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Words begining with Viscount:

Viscount
Viscount
Viscount,_Alexander_Edward_Murray_Fincastle
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Viscountcies
Viscountcy
Viscountess
Viscountess_Astor_Astor_Nancy_Witcher_Langhorne
Viscountess_Beaconsfield
ViscountMonck.jpg
Viscounts
Viscounts_in_the_Peerage_of_England
Viscounts_in_the_Peerage_of_Great_Britain
Viscounts_in_the_Peerage_of_Ireland
Viscounts_in_the_Peerage_of_Scotland
Viscounts_in_the_Peerage_of_the_United_Kingdom
Viscounts_of_Barcelona
Viscounts_of_Bearn
Viscount_Aboyne
Viscount_Adare
Viscount_Addison
Viscount_Air
Viscount_Aithrie
Viscount_Alanbrooke
Viscount_Aldborough
Viscount_Alderney
Viscount_Alexander_of_Hillsborough
Viscount_Alexander_of_Tunis
Viscount_Alford
Viscount_Allen
Viscount_Allenby
Viscount_Allendale
Viscount_Althorp
Viscount_Alverstone
Viscount_Amberley
Viscount_Amiens
Viscount_Amory
Viscount_Andover
Viscount_Anson
Viscount_Arbuthnott
Viscount_Ascott
Viscount_Ashbrook
Viscount_Asquith
Viscount_Astor
Viscount_Bangor
Viscount_Barfleur
Viscount_Barrington
Viscount_Barrington_of_Ardglass
Viscount_Bayham
Viscount_Bayning_of_Sudbury
Viscount_Bearsted
Viscount_Beauchamp
Viscount_Beauchamp_of_Hache
Viscount_Beaumont
Viscount_Belgrave
Viscount_Bellfield
Viscount_Bennett
Viscount_Berkeley
Viscount_Birkenhead
Viscount_Blakenham
Viscount_Bledisloe
Viscount_Blessington
Viscount_Bodmin
Viscount_Bolingbroke
Viscount_Borodale
Viscount_Bosham
Viscount_Bourchier
Viscount_Boyd_of_Merton
Viscount_Boyne
Viscount_Brackley
Viscount_Brandon
Viscount_Brentford
Viscount_Bridgeman
Viscount_Bridport
Viscount_Brookeborough
Viscount_Bruce_of_Ampthill
Viscount_Bryce
Viscount_Buckmaster
Viscount_Bury
Viscount_Buxton
Viscount_Byng_of_Vimy
Viscount_Caldecote
Viscount_Calne_and_Calstone
Viscount_Campden
Viscount_Camrose
Viscount_Camrose
Viscount_Canning
Viscount_Cantelupe
Viscount_Cardwell
Viscount_Cardwell_of_Ellerbeck
Viscount_Carteret
Viscount_Castlereagh
Viscount_Castlereagh_Robert_Stewart
Viscount_Castlerosse
Viscount_Castleton
Viscount_Castle_Stewart
Viscount_Cathcart
Viscount_Caversham
Viscount_Cecil_of_Chelwood
Viscount_Chandos
Viscount_Chaplin
Viscount_Charlemont
Viscount_Chelmsford
Viscount_Chelsea
Viscount_Cherwell
Viscount_Chetwynd
Viscount_Chewton
Viscount_Chilston
Viscount_Cholmondeley
Viscount_Churchill
Viscount_Clancarty
Viscount_Clandeboye
Viscount_Clanmaurice
Viscount_Clifden
Viscount_Clive
Viscount_Cobham
Viscount_Cobham
Viscount_Colville_of_Culross
Viscount_Combermere
Viscount_Conway
Viscount_Cowdray
Viscount_Craigavon
Viscount_Cranborne
Viscount_Cranbrook
Viscount_Cranley
Viscount_Crookshank
Viscount_Cross
Viscount_Cunningham_of_Hyndhope
Viscount_Daventry
Viscount_Davidson
Viscount_Deerhurst
Viscount_Devonport
Viscount_De_L'Isle
Viscount_de_Noailles
Viscount_De_Vesci
Viscount_de_Vesci
Viscount_Dilhorne
Viscount_Dillon
Viscount_Doneraile
Viscount_Downe
Viscount_Drumlanrig
Viscount_Duncan
Viscount_Dunrossil
Viscount_Dupplin
Viscount_Dursley
Viscount_Ebrington
Viscount_Eccles
Viscount_Eden
Viscount_Enfield
Viscount_Esher
Viscount_Exmouth
Viscount_Fairford
Viscount_Falkland
Viscount_Falmouth
Viscount_Farnham
Viscount_Fauconberg
Viscount_Feilding
Viscount_Ferrard
Viscount_Finlay
Viscount_Fitz-Harris
Viscount_Fitzalan
Viscount_Fitzmaurice
Viscount_Fitzwilliam
Viscount_Folkestone
Viscount_Formartine
Viscount_French
Viscount_Gage
Viscount_Galway
Viscount_Garmoyle
Viscount_Gladstone
Viscount_Goderich
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Viscount_Gordon
Viscount_Gormanston
Viscount_Gort
Viscount_Goschen
Viscount_Gough
Viscount_Grandison
Viscount_Grey_de_Wilton
Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon
Viscount_Grimston
Viscount_Grosmont
Viscount_Gwynedd
Viscount_Hailsham
Viscount_Haldane
Viscount_Halifax
Viscount_Hall
Viscount_Hambleden
Viscount_Hamilton
Viscount_Hampden
Viscount_Hampden
Viscount_Hanworth
Viscount_Harberton
Viscount_Harcourt
Viscount_Hardinge
Viscount_Hawarden
Viscount_Head
Viscount_Hereford
Viscount_Hill
Viscount_Hillsborough
Viscount_Hinchingbrooke
Viscount_Hinton
Viscount_Hood
Viscount_Hood_of_Whitley
Viscount_Howard_of_Bindon
Viscount_Howard_of_Morpeth
Viscount_Howe
Viscount_Howick
Viscount_Hughenden
Viscount_Hutchinson
Viscount_Ingestre
Viscount_Ingleby
Viscount_Ipswich
Viscount_Jocelyn
Viscount_Keith
Viscount_Kemsley
Viscount_Kilwarlin
Viscount_Kingston
Viscount_Kitchener
Viscount_Knebworth
Viscount_Knollys
Viscount_Knutsford
Viscount_Lambert
Viscount_Lambton
Viscount_Lascelles
Viscount_Latimer
Viscount_Lauderdale
Viscount_Leathers
Viscount_Lee_of_Fareham
Viscount_Leinster
Viscount_Leinster_of_Taplow
Viscount_Leverhulme
Viscount_Lewisham
Viscount_Lifford
Viscount_Linley
Viscount_Lisburne
Viscount_Lisle
Viscount_Lismore
Viscount_Llandaff
Viscount_Lochow_and_Glenlya
Viscount_Lochow_and_Glenyla
Viscount_Loftus_of_Ely
Viscount_Long
Viscount_Lonsdale
Viscount_Lowther
Viscount_Lumley
Viscount_Lymington
Viscount_Macduff
Viscount_Mackintosh_of_Halifax
Viscount_Macmillan_of_Ovenden
Viscount_Maidstone
Viscount_Malden
Viscount_Malpas
Viscount_Malvern
Viscount_Mandeville
Viscount_Marchwood
Viscount_Margesson
Viscount_Marsham
Viscount_Massereene
Viscount_Melbourne
Viscount_Melfort
Viscount_Melville
Viscount_Mentmore
Viscount_Mersey
Viscount_Merton
Viscount_Midleton
Viscount_Mills
Viscount_Milner
Viscount_Molesworth
Viscount_Monck
Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley
Viscount_Monck_of_Ballytrammon
Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein
Viscount_Monthermer
Viscount_Morley_of_Blackburn
Viscount_Mountbatten_of_Burma
Viscount_Mountgarret
Viscount_Mountjoy
Viscount_Mount_Edgcumbe_and_Valletort
Viscount_Muirshiel
Viscount_Nelson
Viscount_Nelson_Nelson_Horatio
Viscount_Nelson_of_the_Nile
Viscount_Nevill
Viscount_Newark
Viscount_Newport
Viscount_Northcliffe
Viscount_Northland
Viscount_Norwich
Viscount_Novar_of_Raith
Viscount_Nuffield
Viscount_of_Aboyne
Viscount_of_Air
Viscount_of_Aithrie
Viscount_of_Annand
Viscount_of_Arbuthnott
Viscount_of_Ayr
Viscount_of_Balquhidder
Viscount_of_Balquhidder,_Glenalmond_and_Glenlyon
Viscount_of_Blasonberrie
Viscount_of_Briene
Viscount_of_Broxmouth
Viscount_of_Canada
Viscount_of_Dalrymple
Viscount_of_Drumlanrig
Viscount_of_Dunblane
Viscount_of_Dundaff
Viscount_of_Dupplin
Viscount_of_Falkland
Viscount_of_Fentoun
Viscount_of_Fincastle
Viscount_of_Formartine
Viscount_of_Forth
Viscount_of_Garioch
Viscount_of_Inverkeithing
Viscount_of_Jedburgh_Forest
Viscount_of_Kelburn
Viscount_of_Kingarth
Viscount_of_Kingston
Viscount_of_Kirkaldie
Viscount_of_Kirkwall
Viscount_of_Kynnaird
Viscount_of_Lauderdale
Viscount_of_Lochow_and_Glenlya
Viscount_of_Lyon
Viscount_of_Maitland
Viscount_of_Melfort
Viscount_of_Nith,_Thortorwald_and_Ross
Viscount_of_Nith,_Torthorwald_and_Ross
Viscount_of_Osborne
Viscount_of_Oxfuird
Viscount_of_Peebles
Viscount_of_Reidhaven
Viscount_of_Riccartoun
Viscount_of_Rickerton
Viscount_of_Rosebery
Viscount_of_Santarem's_world_atlas
Viscount_of_Seafield
Viscount_of_Stair
Viscount_of_Stirling
Viscount_of_Stormont
Viscount_of_Strathallan
Viscount_of_Walden
Viscount_of_Whitley
Viscount_Osborne
Viscount_Ossington
Viscount_Palmerston
Viscount_Palmeston
Viscount_Parker
Viscount_Peel
Viscount_Petersham
Viscount_Pevensey
Viscount_Portal_of_Hungerford
Viscount_Portman
Viscount_Powerscourt
Viscount_Prestwood
Viscount_Radcliffe
Viscount_Radcliffe_Cyril_John
Viscount_Ratendone
Viscount_Riccartoun
Viscount_Ridley
Viscount_Rochdale
Viscount_Rochester
Viscount_Rochford
Viscount_Rothermere
Viscount_Royston
Viscount_Runciman
Viscount_Runciman_of_Doxford
Viscount_Sackville
Viscount_Samuel
Viscount_Sandhurst
Viscount_Sandon
Viscount_Sandon.jpg
Viscount_Savage
Viscount_Savernake
Viscount_Scarsdale
Viscount_Selby
Viscount_Severn
Viscount_Sherbrooke
Viscount_Sidmouth
Viscount_Simon
Viscount_Slim
Viscount_Snowden
Viscount_Snowden_of_Ickhornshaw
Viscount_Somerset
Viscount_Soulbury
Viscount_Southwell
Viscount_Spencer
Viscount_Stangate
Viscount_Stanhope_of_Mahon
Viscount_Stansgate
Viscount_Stansgate
Viscount_Stansgate_of_Stansgate
Viscount_Stonehaven_of_Ury
Viscount_Stormont
Viscount_Strabane
Viscount_Strathallan
Viscount_Stuart_of_Findhorn
Viscount_Stuart_of_Findhorn
Viscount_St_Albans
Viscount_St_Davids
Viscount_St_John
Viscount_St_Vincent
Viscount_Swinton
Viscount_Sydney
Viscount_Taaffe
Viscount_Tamworth
Viscount_Tara
Viscount_Templewood
Viscount_Tenby
Viscount_Thetford
Viscount_Thurso
Viscount_Tonypandy
Viscount_Tonypandy_of_Rhondda
Viscount_Torrington
Viscount_Townshend
Viscount_Townshend_of_Raynham
Viscount_Trenchard
Viscount_Trentham
Viscount_Uffington
Viscount_Ullswater
Viscount_Valentia
Viscount_Villiers
Viscount_Waverley
Viscount_Weir
Viscount_Wellesley
Viscount_Wellington
Viscount_Wendover
Viscount_Weymouth
Viscount_Whitelaw
Viscount_Willingdon
Viscount_Wilmot
Viscount_Wilton
Viscount_Wimborne
Viscount_Windsor
Viscount_Woodstock
Viscount_Yarmouth
Viscount_Younger
Viscount_Younger_of_Leckie


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