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Guide

A guide to the Scottish baronage

The short answer first. Each topic links to the page or paper that sets it out in full, with its sources.

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Proper Address
How to address a Scottish baron and his family: in speech, in letters and on forms.
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Children and heirs
“Younger”, “Maid”, and the styles of a baron’s sons and daughters.
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Baronies, Explained
Plain answers to the common questions: what a barony is, what changed in 2004, and how one passes.
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History
A thousand years in eight short chapters, in the words of the record.
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Reading Room paper
Robes, chapeau and insignia
The red robe of 1455, the chapeau and supporters: what a baron wore, and what the Lyon Register keeps of it.
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