Chapter 259, Promoted to Earl

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Armand de Aquitaine, the king's special envoy, was standing in the middle of the hall of the Baron's castle holding the king's documents.

In the hall, there was a dense crowd, and all the knights and officials in Ryan's territory came. Ryan knelt quietly in front of the king's envoy without saying a word.

"Baron Jean Machado, since the enfeoffment, you have made outstanding military exploits and martial arts, and you have proved your worth to ladies and kings with courage, honor, and faith. Here, Dinoa, the Knight King of Brittania Let Richard Le Angoulant hereby confer the title of Baron Jean, Ryan Malcador, Earl of Glamorgan, I hope you will use your loyalty, your life, and your piety to prove your worth to the lady and the king." Armand Holding the king's documents, he said without haste.

"I take orders." Ryan didn't say much, he simply replied.

Because he didn't need to say anything more, Richard didn't ask him to go to the capital to accept the canonization, but sent a special envoy to the canonization at random. As far as he was concerned, he was only forced to send a special envoy directly to his fief.

Ryan is too lazy to do those fake things, just make sense of it.

Armand nodded: "May the radiance of the lady light your way forward."

Then the Kingdom's special envoy waved his hand, and the attendants approached from outside holding several clothes. The earl's dress was a dark red velvet coat trimmed with white fur, three mink furs were sewn into the soft hat to indicate the rank of the title, and there was a gold-plated silver ring on the crown. , decorated with 8 silver balls along the upper edge.

Armand hit Ryan's shoulder heavily with the long sword, conferring the sword on the king, and the ceremony was completed.

In fact, this ceremony is a bit out of order. Normally, the king confers the sword to the king, but still that sentence, Richard doesn't want to see him, and Ryan doesn't want to see the king either. It's better not to see him than to hate each other.

From today, Ryan is Baron Jean and Earl of Glamorgan at the same time. Thinking of this, Ryan tried his best to keep his face normal, but his shoulders still trembled slightly.

Twenty-five years have passed since he came to this world for twenty-five years, and he is finally a hereditary nobleman!

Twenty-five years of drinking ice, knowing whether it is warm or not.

The titles of Brittany are divided into five levels, namely Baron, Earl, Marquis, Duke and King. Among them, the Marquis has only appeared in recent years, mainly to express the special commendation and importance of the Earl.

In essence, it is not much different from Earl.

In addition, there are lords and knights. The former rewards nobles, while the latter can reward anyone. Even in the history of Brittania, some serfs have received the title of knight.

But there is a big difference between an earl and a baron.

As we all know, from baron to earl, not only the promotion of the title, but also represents a fundamental change, that is, through his own efforts, Ryan has officially stepped into the ranks of hereditary nobles.

This starts with the status of the baron. In the dark age before the establishment of Brittany, due to the retreat of the imperial power, Brittany fell into a dark age. At that time, the tribes and clans began to divide the territory for autonomy, among them The title of Duke began to appear, and this title was usually awarded to the tribal leader who led the tribe to fight.

After the founding of the Kingdom of Knights, the twelve first-generation Holy Grail Knights were conferred the title of twelve dukes, and they were divided into twelve duchies to form the Kingdom of Knights. Therefore, the duke is the highest title after the king.

In order to facilitate the management of his territory, the duke entrusted him with earls. Earls mean that "Fang Bo" means they guard one side. Earls obey the orders of the duke. Suppressed, or sanctioned by other nobles, the title of earl can be inherited by future generations, but the total number will not increase because some earls lack heirs. At present, the total number of people with the title of earl in Brittania does not exceed 100. And half of them are false titles, that is, they only have titles and no fiefdoms.

Then there is the baron. In the earliest days of the founding of Brittania, there was the title of baron but no title of baron. Baron means "free nobleman" or "servant of the king". By Arthur's eldest son, the second generation knight king During the time of Lewis, Lewis made a large number of canonizations of barons, and most of the senior secular nobles were canonized as barons, but there were only a few barons with actual fiefdoms, and most of them were false titles.

Barons once accounted for a large proportion of the nobles, but later the King of Knights realized that it was not good to indiscriminately appoint barons, so he began to control the number of barons. The lowest rank among nobles.

The law of Brittany stipulates that the baron is not hereditary. If the son of the baron wants to inherit the title, he must be recognized as a knight of the kingdom to inherit his father's title, but the son of the duke does not need it.

Wanting to be promoted from a ranger knight to a kingdom knight requires a life-and-death experience. It can be seen that the succession of the baron gives priority to those with high combat ability and martial arts, while the succession of the duke directly depends on the blood.

Therefore, the baron has a low status among the great nobles. Strictly speaking, the baron is a noble with an unstable class, and they are completely military nobles who serve in the war.

To sum up, it is a hurdle from a baron to an earl. Now, Ryan has passed it. He has become a real hereditary nobleman. The earl already has the ability to launch wars independently, appoint officials and independently manage local people. duty.

The king's documents were handed over to Ryan, and the king's special envoy Armand said with a smile, "Hello, Your Excellency the Earl of Glamorgan."

Glamorgan? Ryan always had an indescribably strange feeling when he heard this title, as if it was describing some kind of stupid person or thing.

Now I can't enjoy so much, Ryan smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Armand."

"Congratulations, Your Excellency Ryan, the lady's champion." Armand said with a smile on his face, "Congratulations on your promotion, can I ask you for a drink?"

Before Ryan could speak, the Marquis Suria came up with a smile on her face: "Of course, Mr. Armand, you are very welcome."

At the same time, the female knight stretched out her small hand, and stroked Ryan's palm with her pale fingertips, signaling him to listen to her first.

Ryan thought that the attitude of the special envoy of the kingdom was very good, and he didn't seem to be deliberately trying to embarrass himself, and he didn't know what Suria meant by doing this, but he still obediently listened to the female knight, so he said enthusiastically : "Of course, please move to the reception room."

The king's special envoy walked towards the reception room, and Ryan deliberately took a step: "Suria?"

The female knight gently took Ryan's hand, and whispered in his ear: "Ryan, don't be rude to your future vassal."

"Future vassal?" Ryan was a little confused, but Suria signaled him to go in quickly. The female knight took out a bottle of Winford's top wine "Lusalus", and went in hand in hand with Ryan.

The exquisite glass goblet was placed on the table. Suria opened the cork lightly, poured red wine into the goblet, and then sent it to Armand: "Hello, Mr. Armand."

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