Comes, translated as count, was a Roman title, generally linked to a comitatus or comital office.
Constantine I SOLI INVICTO COMITI (Comes to Sol Invictus)
13th-century inscription in Trento Cathedral, reading Iacobus comes, "Count James"
Count or Countess is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Especially in earlier medieval p
Comes
…sufficiently large and/or formal to justify specific denomination, such as a "cohors amicorum". The word comes is the origin of the much later terms for counts within the medieval nobility, and counties as their territorial jurisdictions. Comes was a common epithet or title that was added to the name of a hero…
Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854), the governor of the Viipuri Province, entomologist and the grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim.
Comital ephemera: a Count's coronet and crest on a doily.