Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch's strange title
score:13
This is really more like a whole list of questions...
1. Why was de Grailly granted this title, which was apparently used by only a few families, and not some other title?
I think there's a bit of confusion here. The prefix of Captal was the traditional title for the lords of Buch. Edward III granted Jean III de Grailly the fief of Buch which came with it the feudal title of Captal de Buch. He didn't randomly have him titled captal by itself.
2. Was captal used in the same way as other titles, such as Duke or Viscount, where the title is used in place of the name?
Yes:
The captal and his noble kinsman, attended by forty lancers, were joyfully received at Meaux by the dauphiness and the duke and duchess of Orleans.
- Beltz, George Frederick. Memorials of the Order of the Garter. 1841.
3.What was its order of precedence?
Based on notes in Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, it was originally approximately equivalent to count. But it seemed to have become roughly comparable to viscount later.
4. What were the other families that used this title?
From the same source, several other families used it at some point or another, but by the time of the de Grailly, only them and the Captal de Trene was left.
5. Why did the title not outlive the Middle Ages as the titles of Duke and Count did?
It did. After Jean III died, the title passed to his uncle, Count Archambaud of Foix. It stayed with his descendants (in the female line after 1593) until it was sold to Jean-Baptiste Amanieu de Ruat in 1713.
The title was always rather obscure and snowflakey.
6. Why did the title derive from Latin rather than something in French?
The title started during the time of the first Dukes of Aquitaine. The Roman Empire was a recent thing and French didn't really exist as a language at the time.
Upvote:0
The expression probably comes from caput in latin , which means roughly head. Or a vernacular term of Capital, or both. Either way , the bloke was the head of his house and that made him a capital person ;-).
More post
- 📝 Origins of Baptist colonists
- 📝 How much knowledge of the past was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
- 📝 Was prostitution legal in the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of Solomon?
- 📝 What is the earliest mention of an estimate of 71% water (or 70.8%) / 29% land (or 29.2%)?
- 📝 Can anyone identify this (circa 1841) uniform?
- 📝 Was Christopher Columbus Polish?
- 📝 Pre-Islamic cultural inheritance in contemporary Iran
- 📝 What evidence is there relating to Matilda of Scotland as a wife (to Henry I) and mother (to Empress Matilda and William the Adelin)?
- 📝 The name of a German Nazi supporter who owned many newspapers
- 📝 Non Altered European Castles
- 📝 Why did any slaves or former slaves choose to fight against Britain in the Revolutionary War?
- 📝 In 1947, how many Reichsmarks would 1 U.S. dollar buy?
- 📝 Why has Iran's GDP shrunk over the last three decades?
- 📝 Did the communication lag become a problem for the ever expanding Roman Empire?
- 📝 Were groups (or 'companies') of dogs used to attack enemy armies in medieval battles?
- 📝 What is the origin/history of the practice of standing up if an elder or respectable is approaching?
- 📝 what is the history of naming newborn in different community?
- 📝 Was Ulysses S Grant arrested while president or any other time?
- 📝 Were there any battles in Continental Europe that were decided by "peasants with pitchforks?"
- 📝 Did ancient Germans take pride in leaving the land untouched?
- 📝 Mali - French colonial rule
- 📝 19th century cabins: why were beds off the ground? Or weren't they?
- 📝 What led to the romantic perception of the Mayan civilization?
- 📝 How did people distinguish slaves from free people in Ancient Rome?
- 📝 Were children often renamed in late Saxon England?
- 📝 How did Spain justify building a major port at San Blas, Nayarit?
- 📝 The Goths and The Roman Empire (Alaric)
- 📝 What is the origination of the Forlorn Hope?
- 📝 What caused the stagnation in real wage growth in the later half of the 20th century?
- 📝 What was the nature of the Japanese cabinet crisis after the Battle of Taierzhuang?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch's strange title
- 📝 How did Alexander III of Macedon get the title "the Great"?
- 📝 What is this strange symbol painted on bas*m*nt floor?
- 📝 Why is no one claiming the title of Caliph?
- 📝 Was the title "Prince of Wales" originally claimed for the English crown prince via a trick?
- 📝 Why did Henry III of England give his sons English names, other than naming them after his favourite saints?
- 📝 Did King George III turn his back on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
- 📝 What was the reaction to English monarchs using the title "King of France"?
- 📝 Why did Peter the Great change his daughters' title to Tsesarevna?
- 📝 Who gave King Richard I the title Coeur de Lion?
- 📝 How did Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, die?
- 📝 Strange symbol on Midwest brick home
- 📝 Horace Walpole on Richard III
- 📝 What is this strange uniform?
- 📝 Why is Napoleon III seen as a bad leader?
- 📝 Who proposed the motion that gave Gaius Julius Caesar the title Augustus?
- 📝 What is this stick that William III of England/Orange is holding in this portrait?
- 📝 Why was William III of England referred to as the British-Batavian Nassau?
- 📝 What is Darius III wearing on his head?
- 📝 What does King Henry III have on his lap in this illustration from a Matthew Paris chronicle?
- 📝 Did Napoleon III reserve a special set of aluminum cutlery for special guests?
- 📝 What is the title of the Magritte painting that shows a horse-headed woman looking out of a stone window?
- 📝 By what legal mechanism was Catherine Howard deprived of her title of Queen of England?
- 📝 How well did William III speak English at time of the Glorious Revolution in 1688?
- 📝 Is the Persian name or title Khosrow related to the name Caesar?
- 📝 What was the de facto rule by which the imperial title was transmitted in various Chinese dynasties?
- 📝 Strange jeep-hold cable used during Operation Horev
- 📝 What is the line of descent from from emperor Louis III to Henry VII?
- 📝 Which fortress east of Ancient Megiddo did Thutmose III go to during the siege?
- 📝 Why is Richard I (The Lion-heart) considered to be a good king and Jean I a bad one?