watching ENOLA HOLMES with @cearo_thyme got me thinking I have no fuckin clue what the difference between a Marquis and a Marquess is, or in what if any contexts other than RHCP songs the word is pronounced "mahr-KEE"
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I mean a large number of European languages have a "margrave" equivalent and a "marquis/marquess" equivalent, e.g. Italian margravio / marchese
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Ah okay Apparently that's a legacy of the Holy Roman Empire - it was a title given out by the HRE and therefore people who held it had a greater degree of sovereignty than people appointed as a marquis by a local king
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