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A marquess (UK: / ˈ m ɑː (r) k w ɪ s /; French: marquis) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave).
Marquess is a rank of nobility in the peerages of the United Kingdom . In the United Kingdom, and the former kingdoms of England, Ireland, and Great Britain, the monarch is the only authority capable of awarding titles of nobility. There are currently 35 marquessates .
This is a list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922.
OrderTitleDate Of CreationArms11551215993168241694Marquess, marquess equivalentsa European title of nobility, ranking in modern times immediately below a duke and above a count, or earl. Etymologically the word marquess or margrave denoted a count or earl holding a march, or mark, that is, a frontier district; but this original significance has.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Currently, there are 55 Marquessates, held by 51 people. For 34 of them, Marquess is their senior title, while the others are subsidiary titles of Dukes. The word Marquess comes from the french marchis, mean ruler of a border area. Marchis was itself derived from marche – “frontier”, coming from the Latin marcha.
17 set 2019 · There are currently 34 marquesses, the most senior of which is the Marquess of Winchester, which was created in 1551. After marquesses come the earls, a title equivalent to that of a count in other parts of Europe (and the female version of an earl is called a countess ).
Marquess ist eine deutsche Popmusik-Band aus Hannover, die vorwiegend spanischsprachige Songs spielt. Der Name Marquess leitet sich aus dem Namen eines Hotels ab, in dem die Musiker nächtigten.
