I don’t think so @LordAshcroft Winston was my great uncle and I knew him well, he would be appalled at the constant hijacking of the Churchill name to justify such insanity and the needless loss of life. https://t.co/W98L8O3dzS
— Duke of Marlborough (@MarlboroughOf) March 2, 2025
Is it better to be a duke or a lord tho?
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The Duchy of Marlborough was created to allow John Churchill, a former defender of King James II (he defeated the Monmouth rebellion and secured Jimmy on the throne), the land tithes to raise a company of soldiers to fight against James and for the new regime of William, Duke of Orange as the crafty Dutchman had no intention of paying for a Bong military of his own.
The Ranks of European nobility ususlly go something like this:
King
Prince
Duke (although Princes can also be dukes- the title of prince just meant you were a king's son and didn't entitle you to land)
Earl (only in Bongland, from the old English/Norse 'Jarl'- a lower, local ruler)
Viscount/Burgraaf
Count/Graaf (count means companion and Viscount means trusted companion)
Baron/Lord (baron means soldier but it also kind of means 'dumb', implying someone who does what they're told)
Knight (the only rank not automatically entitled to a fief of land- knights had to pay for their own kit and horses too so they were often poor as frick- see Don Quixote)
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