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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Earl, Marquess, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Count, Ficquelmont family, Margrave, Graf, Julian, count of Ceuta, Missus dominicus, Count palatine, Henry Jerome de Salis, Marquis of Angeja, Saint Cajetan, Peter, 3rd Count de Salis, Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz, Henri, Count of Brionne, Count of Valenca, Janko Dra kovi, Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, Alexander Kolowrat, Charles, Count of Armagnac, Count of Alcoutim, Otto Thott, Count of Vidigueira, Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth, Charles de Salis, Count of Vila Real, Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Landgrave, Marquess of Pombal, Marquis of Marialva, Krzysztof Chodkiewicz, Count of Miranda do Corvo, Robert II, Count Panzutti, Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, William-Jordan, Burgrave, Marquis of Tavora, Bernard the Dane, List of counts of Tonnerre, Count Camillo Marcolini, Count of La Conquista, Count of Feira, Henry of Bar, Count of Peniche, Count of Marialva, Erich Graf von Bernstorff, Tomas Polus, Count of Olivenca, Wolfgang I of Oettingen, Conde, Marceli o towski, Reginald of Burgundy, Freigraf, Ottorino Gentiloni, Waldgrave, John I of Chalon-Auxerre. Excerpt: A count (male) or countess (female) is an aristocratic nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes-in its accusative comitem-meaning "companion," and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor." The adjective form of the word is "comital." The British equivalent is an earl (whose wife is also a "countess," for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). Alternative names for the "Count" rank in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as Hakushaku during the Japanese Imperial era. In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title comes meaning (imperial) "companion" denoted the high rank of various courtier...
