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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
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.
Viscount
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A viscount or viscountess is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. The status and any domain held by a viscount is a viscounty.
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…used as an equivalent to the English term shire, is derived from the Old French conté or cunté which denoted the jurisdiction of a French count or viscount. The modern French is comté, and its equivalents in other languages are contea, contado, comtat, condado, Grafschaft, graafschap, etc. (cf. conte…
The French general Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
Coronet of the 6th Viscount Clifden.