Baron - Noble Title with Aristocratic Rank of Baron

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This Listing Is For The Noble Aristocratic Title Baron or Baroness for the Lady You are bidding on the Verifiable Noble and Aristocratic Title of BARON (or BARONESS for a Lady). This Title comes with all the official documentation as listed below, including your FRAMED Letters Patent granting your Barony, the Official Apostille of the Duchy of Bohemia, your Certificate of Authenticity, the Deed of Title Grant, together with all the other official documents listed below, your document portfolio and more. This low resolution example of just ONE of the Official Documents you'll receive in this auction, your Large DeLuxe 11" x 14" Letters Patent (one of the many Official Verifiable Title documents you'll receive) below does not show the colorful ribbons on the Golden Seal of the Duchy, nor does it show all the other Official Documents you receive, including the hand impressed red sealing wax with the grantor's heraldic signet on your truly impressive Letters Patent. It cannot begin to illustrate the majestic beauty you receive with all your official documents as described below should you be the successful bidder for this Title! Please see the Bulleted list below of ALL the verifiable documents you receive as the successful bidder as listed below. THE TITLE OF BARON (OR BARONESS): Baron is a specific title of nobility. The word baron comes from Spanish barón, itself from Frankish baro meaning "freeman, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman." In the British peerage system, barons rank below viscounts, being the lowest rank in the peerage. A female of baronial rank has the honorific baroness. A baron may hold a barony, if the title relates originally to a feudal barony by tenure, although such tenure is now obsolete in England and any such titles are now held in gross, if they survive at all, sometimes along with some vestigial manorial rights, or by grand serjeanty. William I introduced "baron" as a rank into England to distinguish the men who had pledged their loyalty to him (see Feudalism). Previously, in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, the king's companions held the title of earls and in Scotland, the title of thane. All who held their barony "in chief of the king" (that is, directly from William and his successors) became alike barones regis (barons of the king), bound to perform a stipulated service, and welcome to attend his council. Before long, the greatest of the nobles, especially in the marches, such as the Earls of Chester or the Bishops of Durham, might refer to their own tenants as "barons", w lesser magnates spoke simply of their "men" (homines). Initially those who held land direct of the crown by military service, from earls downwards, all alike bore the title of baron, but under Henry II, the Dialogus de Scaccario already distinguished greater (who held in baroniam by knights' service) or lesser baronies (generally smaller single manors). Within a century of the Norman Conquest, as in Thomas Becket's case (1164), t arose the practice of sending to each greater baron a special summons to the council that evolved into the House of Lords, while the lesser barons, Magna Carta (1215) stipulated, would receive summons only in general, through the sheriffs. Thus appeared a definite distinction, which eventually had the effect of restricting to the greater barons the rights and privileges of peerage. Later, the sovereign could create a new barony in one of two ways: by a writ of summons directing someone to Parliament, or by letters patent. Writs of summons featured in medieval times, but creation by letters patent has become the norm. Baronies thus no longer directly relate to land ownership, following the Modus Tenendi Parliamenta (1419), the Feudal Tenure Act (1662), and the Fines and Recoveries Act (1834) which enabled such titles to be dis-entailed. In pre-republican Germany all the knightly families (sometimes distinguished by the prefix "von") eve... read more

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