Melodia/Roleplay/Proper Address

Note: A more modern version, but if you don't know how to do it properly, this guideline is better than nothing.

Peerage Titles

There are two kinds of peerage.

• Substantive Peers are those who have been granted with a title.
  
• Courtesy Peers are all those who, even if for a short time in their life, have been related with a substantive peer and have gained the title by his courtesy.

How to Use: of

The various titles are in the form of [Position] of [Region]/[Lastname] or [Position] [Region]/[Lastname].

• Dukes always use of.
• Marquises and Earls are subject to circumstances. Those whose titles are based on place names normally use of, while those whose titles are based on surnames normally do not.
• Viscounts, Barons and Lords of Parliament never use of.

Of is normally not used when the place in question is outside realm territory, as using of might imply that the realm has sovereignty over such a place.

Signatures

A territorial designation is often added to the main peerage title, especially in the case of Barons and Viscounts.

Form: [Position] [Lastname], of [Region] in the Duchy of [Duchy Name]

Any designation after the comma does not form a part of the main title.