Titled characters (WAS Voldemort's "lordship")

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86168

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc"
<pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups, Carol wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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


Thanks for the information. My thought that he was German or Austrian
was based solely on the title "Baron," which to my knowledge doesn't
exist in Britain. (I'm also assuming that the good baron attended
Durmstrang in his youth. How he ended up at Hogwarts is anybody's guess.)

So now we know that Sir Nicholas was a knight. Wonder if that ties in
with the suits of armor in the hallways.

Carol