Titled characters (WAS Voldemort's "lordship")

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No: HPFGUIDX 86110

--- In HPforGrownups, Carol wrote:
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> Or maybe Sir Nicholas was a baronet rather than a knight,
> which would still make him a "Sir." 

According to the cake in the Deathday-party in CoS, Sir Nicholas de 
Mimsy-Porpington died in 1492, 119 years before the first letters 
patent for baronets were drawn up (by King James I, as a means of 
raising funds for occupying Ulster - the title was granted upon 
payment of a fee of £ 1095, which was enough to maintain 30 
infantrymen in Ulster for three years - later a similar system of 
baronetcies was introduced to pay for the settling of Nova Scotia).

> But I still don't see any lords or other aristocrats in the WW,
> only gentry (except for the Bloody Baron, who's probably German
> or Austrian rather than British, if it matters).

This made me curious - I do not recall ever seeing anything in the 
books pointing in any particular direction regarding the Bloody 
Baron's nationality, but I can easily have missed something.  What in 
the books made you think he is German or Austrian?

Best regards
Christian Stubø