Peerage

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A Peerage is an award given to members of The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc. for exceptional service and dedication to the organization. This award affords the member to roleplay as a member of the nobility of Manticoran society. Peers are given hereditary privileges including a seat in the House of Lords, the right to bear a coat of arms, and special forms of address.

Peers are granted titles named after their "peerage lands," fictitious territories on the worlds of Manticore, Gryphon, Sphinx (the Old Star Kingdom) as portrayed in the books by David Weber. Peerage titles may exist on other worlds from the Honor Harrington series of novels and related books, the most notable being the Grand Duke of New Montana, an honorary award bestowed on the author David Weber by the organization in appreciation of him creating the series.

Peerages come in several levels, based on the Manticoran Peerage System and those of other Honorverse star nations. In ascending order of precedence, they are:

• A Barony, is a peerage awarded to a Baron or Baroness. The word barony refers both to the peerage title itself and to the "land" granted to the peer.

• An Earldom is the peerage awarded to an Earl or a Countess. The land granted to an earl or countess is called a county.

• A Dukedom is the peerage awarded to a Duke or Duchess. The land granted to a duke or duchess is called a duchy.

• A Grand Dukedom is the peerage awarded to a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess. The territory associated with a Grand Duchy is an entire planet. Presently the only Grand Duchy in existence within The Royal Manticoran Navy is that of New Montana (originally Montana, but changed by the author), and it is an Honorary Peerage, as opposed to the Active Peerage for general members of the organization.

Though there was one marquis mentioned in the canon, David Weber considers this an oversight which he has retconned out of the canon, and this level of peerage has never been awarded in TRMN.

Some foreign peerages are awarded in TRMN to members who have non-manticoran personae. The Andermani have equivalent noble ranks, including freiherrs (barons), grafs (earls), and herzogs (dukes). Grayson only has steadholders, which are considered equivalent rank to that of duke or duchess in the SKM, although steadholders exercise "head of state" sovereignty withing their territories, while dukes/duchesses hold their lands in fief from the crown.

List of TRMN Peers

Rank	Title	Name	Date of Peerage
Grand Duke	New Montana	David Weber	25 May 2017
Duke	New Scania	Martin Lessem
Duke	New Ulyanovsk	Sean Niemeyer
Duke	Karstadt Sea	Robert Jackson
Duke	Mountain View	Robert Bulkeley
Countess	Wilson	Sharon Rice-Weber
Countess	New Cumbria	Elisa Randall
Earl	New Mecklenburg	John Roberts
Earl	Neu Odenwaldkries	James Friedline
Earl	Westmarch	John Neitz
Countess	Fontana Flats	Chrissy Killian
Countess	Nya Östergötland	Brandi Hinson
Countess	Boundary Waters	Laura Lochen
Earl	Cumberland Moor	Peter Gordon
Earl	Mars-Evans	Daniel Walker
Countess	Miyake Jima	Jill McTavish
Earl	White Lion	William Knight
Baroness	Silver Heath	Gena Robbinson
Baron	Nový Prerov	Ivo Heger
Baron	Tesseyman	Greg Marchand
Baron	New Mimas	Timothy Zahn
Baron	Glencairn	Drew Drentlaw
Baroness	White Rose	Allison Gahrmann
Baron	New Victoria	Justin Grays
Baroness	Cape Fear	Cindy Epard
Baron	Piedmont	John Stump
Baroness	Havelok	Stephanie Taylor
Baroness	Blacksburg	Heather Selbe
Baron	Bahia Cadiz	Kim Niemeyer
Baroness	New Dover	Christa Brolley
Baron	Serpent Head Point	David Weiner
Baroness	Redstone	Heidi Nelson
Baron	Camera Stellata	Matthew Parker
Baroness	New Adelaide	Nicola Hawke
Baroness	New Essex	Diane Bulkeley
Baron	La Mancha	Bill Lochen
Baron	Grosvenor	Wayne Bruns
Baron	Clipper Island	Mark Gledhill
Baron	Chinook	Jason Gurule
Baron	Silver Lake	Garret Bitker
Baroness	New Florence	Pamela Cole
Baron	New Caladan	Jeffrey Webb
Baron	New Halifax	Rob Marshall
Baron	McCovey Cove	Michael Garcia
Baroness	Clear Lake	Cindy Jeffers
Baroness	Alnwick Estates	Lauren Niemeyer
Baron	Cooper's Lake	Joseph Grieco
Baron	Eboracum	Benjamin Wagner
Baron	New Greyhawke	James Jones
Baron	Whidbey Basin	Drew Drentlaw
Baroness	New Troy	Jackie Snedden
Baron	West Columbia	Brad Lee
Baroness	New Hastings	Cheryl Krause
Baron	Calabasas	Chris Thompson
Steadholder	Pittman	Martyn Griffiths
Steadholder	Henesy	Tom Saidak
Steadholder	Maelstromm	David Melsome
Steadholder	Fitzgerald	Philip Clayton
Steadholder	New Ayers	Colin Lloyd
Baroness (Andermani)	Neu Sachsen	Laura Lüschen
Baron (Andermani)	Baudenvost	Philip Wohlrab
Senator (Havenite)	Duquesne Tower	James Sena

External Links

• The Wall of Peerage Gallery of peers' coats of arms at the TRMN website