Some Titles
- Duke (Latin: dux, Hungarian: herceg, Slovak: vojvoda, German: Herzog): The Hungarian word is derived from the German. Initially, all dukes were members of the royal family, so that the title can also be translated as royal prince, hereditary prince, crown prince (as in some other countries).
- Prince (Latin: princeps; Hungarian: herceg, fejedelem, or uralkodó; Slovak: Knieža, German: Fürst): The title and rank of Prince was the highest attainable state for a Hungarian nobleman, and was granted by the Habsburgs in their capacity as Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria. However, this title did not come with an autonomous principality.
- Count and baron (Latin: comes or baro, Hungarian: gróf or báró, Slovak: gróf or barón, German: Graf or Baron): These titles were mainly used in the Habsburg era, although the title of baron was first granted by King Vladislaus II (1490–1516). The first documented creation of a count (Latin perpetuus comes) was that of John Hunyadi, although the title had already been used by some families in Croatia and the western parts of Hungary, following German and Italian customs. The most important comital families before the Habsburg era were the Subich, Zrínyi, Frangepán (Frankopan), Blagay, Cseszneky, Németújvári (Grafen von Güssing), Héderváry, Szentgyörgyi és Bazini (Grafen von Sankt-Georgen und Pösing), Nagymartoni, and Fraknói.
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Famous quotes containing the word titles:
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)