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A baron or a baroness is the holder of a barony and a member of lowest rank of the peerage. Manticoran baronies are held as territories subsidiary to the Star Kingdom, so SKM barons and baronesses, while they are the administrators of their territories, are still subjects of the sovereign rather than monarchs of their baronies.

Depending on the context, the word "barony" refers either to the peerage and title of a baron or baroness, or to the territory held by a baron or baroness.

Forms of Address

A baron is addressed as "My Lord" and a baroness as "My Lady."

Those holding a barony are formally referred to in the third person as "The Baron Title," (for males) or "The Baroness Title" for females. Conventionally a a baron will be referred to as "Lord Title" (for example, "Lord Winterfall") and a baroness as "Lady Title" (for example, "Lady Bellisle").

The word "of" is never included in baronial titles. Although the barony (in the sense of the title and territory) will be referred to, for example, as "The Barony of Winterfall," the holder would be called "Baron Winterfall" or "Lord Winterfall" (never "Baron of Winterfall" or "Lord of Winterfall").

A baron or baroness with military rank may be referred to by their rank and title instead of their rank and given name. Formal usage: Admiral the Lord Winterfall. Less formal usage: Admiral Winterfall.

In the peerage of the Star Kingdom of Manticore and in TRMN a peerage title may be held by a male or female. Baronies, like all other Manticoran peerages, are hereditary and typically the current holder will designate their eldest child as their heir, without regard to their gender. The spouse of the title holder is afforded the same title, without regard for the gender of the title holder.

The cadet (heir) of an baron or baroness (usually their eldest child) is addressed as "My Lord" (if male) or "My Lady" (if female), or "Lord/Lady [first name]" and is referred to in the third person as "Lord Firstname Lastname" (if male) or "Lady Firstname Lastname" (if female).

Children of an baron or baroness (other than the cadet) are referred to in the third person as "The Honorable Firstname Lastname." This is customarily abbreviated in written form as "Hon. Firstname Lastname." There is no special form of address for younger children of a baron or baroness.

Barons and Baronesses of the Realm in TRMN

Allegheny-Mellon

• RADM Sir Thomas Pope

Bahia Cadiz

• RADM Sir Kim Neimeyer, Fifth Space Lord

Baudenvost

• CDRE Sir Philip Wohlrab, IAN

Blacksburg

• LTCOL Dame Heather Selbe, RMA

Camera Stellata

• CDRE Sir Matthew Parker

Cape Fear

• CAPTJG Dame Cindy Epard

Chinook

• CAPTSG Sir Jason Gurule

Clear Lake

• CDRE Dame Cindy Jeffers

Clipper Island

• CAPTSG Sir Mark Gledhill

Cumberland Moor

• BRIGGEN Sir Peter Gordon

Glencairn

• CDR Sir Drew Drentlaw

Grosvenor

• Sir Wayne Bruns

Havelok

• RADM Stephanie Taylor

Leutzen Vale

• Eric Flint

La Mancha

• CSMCPO Sir William Lochen
  • VADM Dame Laura Lochen, Countess of Boundary Waters

Mars-Evans

• LTGEN Sir Daniel Walker, RMA

McCovey Cove

• RADM Sir Michael Garcia, Third Space Lord

Miyake-Jima

• CDRE Dame Jill McTavish

Neu Sachsen

• FADM Dame Laura Lüschen, IAN

New Adelaide

• SGTMAJ Dame Nicola Hawke, RMA

New Arlington

• LCDR Christopher Wueve

New Caladan

• COL Sir Jeffrey Webb, RMA

New Dover

• RADM Dame Christa Brolley, Sixth Space Lord

New Essex

• RADM Dame Diane Bulkeley, Second Space Lord
  • ADM Sir Robert W. Bulkeley, Duke of Mountain View

New Florence

• CAPTJG Dame Pamela Cole

New Halifax

• CDRE Sir Rob Marshall

New Kasserine

• COL Andrew Knipe, RMMC

New Mimas

• LCDR Timothy Zahn

New Victoria

• CDRE Sir Justin Grays

Nový Prerov

• BGEN Ivo Heger, RMMC

Nya Östergötland

• ADM Dame Brandi Hinson

Piedmont

• LTCOL John Stump, RMA

Redstone

• RADM Dame Heidi Nelson, Seventh Space Lord
  • COL Bryar Nelson

Runnymead Fields

• CAPTSG Mark Gutis

Serpent Head Point

• RADM Dave Weiner, Fourth Space Lord

Silver Heath

• Gena Robbinson

Silver Lake

• CAPT Sir Garret Bitker, RMACS

Tesseyman

• SGTMAJ Sir Gregory Marchand, RMMC

White Lion

• CAPTJG Sir William Knight

White Rose

• CAPTSG Allison Garhmann