Lord
The term Lord is an honorific used to indicate that a man or his father has rank. "Lord" originally referred to the master of a household. In modern English, it is used for a marquis, earl, count, viscount, baron or baronet or the son of duke or marquis. It came to be extended to non-peerage ranks, eg. Lord Mayor or Lord Chamberlain, and church ranks, eg. Bishop of Upper Smithbury, Lord Clancy.
For landed peers, it is used with the name of their estate, not their first name. Hence, you could refer to the Earl of Cumnor as Lord Cumnor.
Many Lords in period were vassals of greater lords, and held suzerainty over lesser ones, often creating intricate webs of interlocking obligation.
A Lord in the SCA
Lord is the honorific given in the SCA to male holders of an Award of Arms. Any male participants are entitled to be called m'lord as a polite form of address but this implies no specific rank.
Other ranks tend to use different honorifics, eg. Your Excellency for barons.
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Alternate titles
A persona with the title of Lord may wish to use one of the following alternate titles.
| Language | Alternate Form |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Zoti/Bujar |
| Arabic | Sayyid |
| Breton | Aotrou |
| Catalan | Senyor |
| Cornish | Arloedd |
| Czech | Lord, Pán |
| Danish | Herre |
| Dutch | Gebieder |
| Estonian | Lord |
| Finnish | Herra |
| French | Seigneur, Monsieur |
| German | Herr |
| Greek | Kírios |
| Hebrew | Reb |
| Hungarian | Gyula |
| Icelandic | Drottinn |
| Irish Gaelic | Tiarna |
| Italian | Signore |
| Latin | Dominus |
| Manx | Chiarn |
| Middle Norwegian | Heera |
| Old English | Hlaford |
| Polish | Pan |
| Portuguese | Senhor |
| Romanian | Domn |
| Russian | Pomestnik |
| Scots Gaelic | Tighearna |
| Spanish | Señor/Don |
| Swedish | Herre |
| Turkish | Efendi |
| Welsh | Arglwydd/Boneddig/Bonheddwr |
