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False titles of nobility

Index False titles of nobility

False titles of nobility are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without recognition by the current or past government of a country in which titles of nobility exist or once existed. [1]

22 relations: Aristocracy (class), Barão de Itararé, Castello Dei Baroni, Estates of the realm, Giorgio Carbone, Hereditary title, Kingsley Fletcher, Laurence Gardner, Michel Roger Lafosse, Nobility, Peerages in the United Kingdom, Pierre Plantard, Richard Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford, Romanov impostors, Royal and noble ranks, Royal and noble styles, Scam title, Seborga, Self-styled order, Title, Title of honor, Vilatte orders.

Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Barão de Itararé

Apparício Fernando de Brinkerhoff Torelly, (January 29, 1895 — November 27, 1971) also known as Apporelly and as the fake title of nobility of Barão de Itararé (Baron of Itararé), was a Brazilian journalist and writer.

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Castello Dei Baroni

Castello Dei Baroni is a 20th-century residence in Wardija, Malta.

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Estates of the realm

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the medieval period to early modern Europe.

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Giorgio Carbone

Giorgio Carbone (14 June 1936 – 25 November 2009) was an Italian who claimed to be head of state of the Principality of Seborga, a micronation whose extent is the Italian town of that name, but whose independent status is not yet recognised outside of Seborga.

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Hereditary title

Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are titles of nobility, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families.

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Kingsley Fletcher

Kingsley Fletcher is a North Carolina preacher and author, and the Suapolor ("pathfinder" or "waymaker") of the Se (Shai) Traditional Area in the Dangme West District of Ghana, West Africa, where he carries the title "Drolor" and the royal name Bosso Adamtey I. He is the first chancellor of the University of Professional Studies.

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Laurence Gardner

Laurence Gardner (17 May 1943 – 12 August 2010) was an author and lecturer.

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Michel Roger Lafosse

Michel Roger Lafosse (born 21 April 1958 in Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium), subsequently known as Michael James Alexander Stewart of Albany, claims to be a descendant of Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and to be the legitimate Jacobite claimant to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Peerages in the United Kingdom

The peerage is a legal system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles in the United Kingdom (as elsewhere in Europe), composed of various noble ranks, and forming a constituent part of the British honours system.

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Pierre Plantard

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a direct and legitimate male line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus.

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Richard Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford

Richard Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford (born 3 October 1947) is a British peer and businessman.

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Romanov impostors

The members of the Russian royal family, the House of Romanov, were executed by firing squad by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918, during both the Russian Civil War and near the end of the First World War.

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Royal and noble ranks

Traditional rank amongst European royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Royal and noble styles

Styles represent the fashion by which monarchs and noblemen are properly addressed.

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Scam title

Scam titles are titles which have no legal validity (which have generally been sold illegally).

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Seborga

Seborga (A Seborca) is a small town in the region of Liguria in northwest Italy, near the French border.

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Self-styled order

Pseudo-chivalric order or self-styled order is an organisation which claims to be a chivalric order, but is not recognised as legitimate by countries or international bodies.

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Title

A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name in certain contexts.

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Title of honor

A title of honor or honorary title is a title bestowed upon individuals or organizations as an award in recognition of their merits.

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Vilatte orders

The Vilatte Orders are awards or decorations associated Joseph René Vilatte which include the Order of the Crown of Thorns (OCT) and the Order of the Lion and the Black Cross (OLBC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_titles_of_nobility

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