Thread:Mechemik/@comment-3131473-20190225190406/@comment-3131473-20190317150412

So Sapko provides two hierarchies:
 * 1) central-eastern European, that is German, Scandinavian, Russian and Hungarian:
 * 2) knight
 * 3) baron
 * 4) count
 * 5) (sometimes) mar-, bur- and other -graves, but rather as an influential subtype of normal count
 * 6) duke / prince / herzog
 * 7) western European:
 * 8) knight / chevalier
 * 9) baronet (Britain only)
 * 10) baron
 * 11) vicecount
 * 12) count
 * 13) marquis / margrave
 * 14) duke / prince

All the signs in the books suggest that the second system is used in both Northern Realms and the Empire, though given the diversity of cultures within both these blobs I'd guess that the first, less complicated system is used in some countries as well.