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Ranks of Nobility

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King & Queen

Grand Duke & Grand Duchess

Archduke & Archduchess

Prince & Princess

Infante & Infanta

Duke & Duchess

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Margrave & Margravine

Count/Earl & Countess

Viscount & Viscountess

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Hereditary Knight Black Knight, White Knight, Green Knight

Knight & Dame

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The Pedigree of The White Knight was one of three hereditary knighthoods within Ireland dating from the Medieval period.^[1] . It was held by the Fitzgibbon family, possibly extinct now.^[2] The others are Fitzgerald: Knight of Glin (also called the Black Knight) and Fitzgerald: Knight of Kerry (also called the Green Knight)

The first White Knight was Gilbert Fitz-Gerald, son of John Fitz-Maurice Fitz-Gerald, Baron Offaly. A kinsman, the Earl of Desmond, acting as Count Palatine, is said to have conferred the title of 'White Knight' on Gilbert as well as the titles of Knight of Glin (or Glynn), Knight of Keery and Knight of the Valley on three of Gilbert's brothers.^[3]

One notable White Knight was Edmund Fitzgibbon.

"This Gilbert was of fair hair and complexion, and, being knighted, was called "The White Knight"; and by the Irish Ryther-u-fin. His eldest male descendent were constantly denominated by that title until the time of Queen Elizabeth, when John Og FitzGibbon, the then White Knight, who had taken an active part in the Desmond Rebellions of his kinsmon The Earl of Desmond, was attained by act of parliament, after his death, by the name of John Fitzgerald, The White Knight, or John Og FitzJohn, Knight, FitzGibbon.

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