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Sign in to savethumb|upright|Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist)|Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854), the [[governor of the Vyborg Province, entomologist and the grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim.]] Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the count had specific responsibilities or offices. The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories
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- Origin of the term
- Land attached to title
- Comital titles in different European languages
- Etymological derivations from the Latin {{lang|la|comes}}
- Etymological derivations from German {{lang|de|Graf}} or Dutch {{lang|nl|Graaf}}
- Compound and related titles
- Lists of countships <!--preferably weighted lists of major counts and interesting particularities-->
- Territory of today's France
- Kingdom of the Western Franks
- Parts of today's France long within other kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire
- The Holy Roman Empire
- In Germany
- In Austria
- In the Low Countries
- In Switzerland
- In other continental European countries
- Holy See
- In Poland
- In Hungary
- On the Iberian peninsula
- Portugal
- Spain
- South Eastern Europe
- Bulgaria
- Montenegro and Serbia
- Crusader states
- Scandinavia
- Equivalents
- In fiction
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|upright|Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist)|Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854), the [[governor of the Vyborg Province, entomologist and the grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim.]] Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the count had specific responsibilities or offices. The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with some countships, but not all.
The title of count is typically not used in England or English-speaking countries, with the equivalent title earl used instead. As a feminine form of earl never developed, the female equivalent countess is retained.