The Order of Noble Titles: From Gentlemen to Dukes

To explore “The History of Westminster Abbey”and more first-class history content subscribe to History Hit: https://access.historyhit.com/checkou... The comments section for my video from two weeks ago and the questions beneath my Q&A request on my community tab made it clear that today’s video topic is a necessary one. We’re going to go in order from bottom to top, starting with the gentlemen and move up the ranks and titles of the nobility to esquires, knights, baronets, barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes… I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting! Please subscribe and click the bell icon to be updated about new videos. Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media: Instagram: katrina.marchant Twitter: @kat_marchant Clubhouse: @kat_marchant TikTok: @katrina_marchant Email: [email protected] Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ] SFX from https://freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx Linked videos and playlists: Buckingham Traitors:    • The Traitor Dukes?: The Stafford Family   Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated): Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester by Steven van der Meulen (c.1564). held by Waddesdon House. Screenshot from: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explor... "The answeres of Garter and Clarencieux Kings of arms, to the scrowle of arms exhibited by Raffe Brookesmouth caled York Herauld." (1602). Held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; MS. Ashmole 846, fol. 50r-v, and fol. 51v. Screenshot from Debrett’s website: https://debretts.com/peerage/ranks-an... Portrait of King Henry V by an unknown artist (late 16th or early 17th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown English artist (circa 1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Anne Boleyn by an unknown artist (circa 1550). Held by Hever Castle. “Edward VI as a Child” by Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1538). Held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Quoted texts: Oxford English Dictionary definition of “Esquire”. Debrett’s definition of “Baron”. Debrett’s definition of “Duke”. Also consulted, were: Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. #Peerage #Royalty #History