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Hang on...who has what titles so far??? I just wanna know so I can think my families opinion of the other houses.

EDIT: And I have played the Stronghold series and I can see what you mean!
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Currently available titles are Duke-Count-Burgrave-Lord-Knight-Edler. Duke is off limits and Count is the title given to the head of the family. You can see if your family has the title of count by reading my family history*. As for other members of the family, they can be any of the other four titles as I've given the example of who can rule what in few posts above, so if you own a castle the family member that controls it can be Burgrave or a Lord, etc. You can also make some of your family members clerics.

*hint: the families listed with count title are in the last few paragraphs. There's a total of four families with the title.
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Ahhh found them all now, just had to check through who certain the Burgraves were.
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Basically powerful nobles that ruled from castles. They could own villages and mines as well, but only as secondary estates, besides the castle.

Here's some more information on 'graves' or 'grafs' (counts) as they were called in German. There are several types:
1) Graf- basically a German title for a Count.
2) Landgraf- A bit higher than count but lower than duke. Usually awarded sizable land to govern over, most likely two or three counties.
3) Margraf- A bit higher than count, lower than Landgraf. They held bordering provinces and counties - marches, as they were called in the Holy Roman Empire and even Frankish Empire.
4) Burgrafs- Lower than Grafs, higher than barons. They were governors of castles and surrounding lands, but also deputies of Grafs (counts).

I do plan to add number 2) and 3) and barons later on.