Hereditary Nobility of Westarctica

Collage showing some of Westarctica's Hereditary Nobles

The Hereditary Nobility of Westarctica is an institution almost as old as Westarctica itself, although it has had several different names since nobles were first appointed in 2001.

As of 8 April 2018, no title in the Hereditary Nobility has ever been transferred to an heir as no member of the nobility has yet passed away.

Names of the peerage

During the era when Westarctica was known as the Achaean Territory of Antarctica, the collected nobles were simply known as "the Nobility." In 2002, when the Achaean Royal Charter was decreed, the name was formalized as "the Baronage". This name was retained in the Grand Ducal Charter of 2004.

In September 2012, when the first Charter of Westarctica was decreed, the nobles were labeled simply "nobility," however, in the second revision of the Charter, only a month later, Grand Duke Travis first added the word "hereditary" to the article on nobility. From this time forward, the group of nobles became known as the "Hereditary Nobility."

Ranks of royalty and nobility

Rank	Title	Style of Address
Royal Family
1	Grand Duke	His Royal Highness
2	Prince-Consort	His Royal Highness
3	Princes of the Blood	His Royal Highness
Hereditary Nobles
1	Royal Prince Royal Princess	His Highness Her Highness
2	Noble Prince Noble Princess	His Serene Highness Her Serene Highness
3	Duke Duchess	His Grace Her Grace
4	Marquis Marquise	His Lordship Her Ladyship
5	Count Countess	His Lordship Her Ladyship
6	Viscount Viscountess	His Lordship Her Ladyship
7	Baron Baroness	His Lordship Her Ladyship
8	Baronet Baronetness	Sir Lady (Unofficial)

The "Old Guard"

Starting in 2012, nobles who had received their titles prior to Grand Duke Travis' 2006 abdication from the throne became informally known as the "Old Guard" out of respect to their long service to Westarctica.

List of members of the Hereditary Nobility

Hereditary Princes and Princesses

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Princess of Thurston	4 June 2005	Kerry Mott	Royal Princess
Prince of Siple	25 October 2012	Niels Vermeersch	Royal Prince
Prince of Driscoll	30 August 2017	D. Chase Callahan
Princess of Rockefeller	4 January 2018	Rebecca Lower

Hereditary Dukes and Duchesses

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Duke of Ravencroft	1 October 2004	Philip Karns	Created as Marquis de Merovingi
Duke of Sherman	13 January 2005	Jorge Fernandez Vidal	Created as Count of Sturge
Duke of Moulton-Berlin	8 April 2004	Jon-Lawrence Langer	Created as Duke of Driscoll
Duke of Waesche	1 June 2005	Wolf Tulier	Created as Count of Waesche
Duke of Le Vaux	7 July 2005	Javier Gold Ferrari
Duke of La Gorce	18 September 2016	Yannick Beuvelet
Duke of Saint James	4 January 2017	Pedro Vázquez González
Duchess of Eights	12 October 2017	Sheri Sanders
Duke of the Bear Peninsula	9 December 2017	C. Jordan Farmer
Duke of the Walgreen Coast	17 January 2018	Johannes Strauss
Duke of Borradaile	22 January 2018	Chrenan Borradaile	Raised from Count of Borradaile
Duke of the Balchen Glacier	23 January 2018	Lars Vorländer
Duke of Gutenko	30 January 2018	Thomas Marek
Duke of Fox Grove	9 March 2018	August Grappin

Hereditary Marquis and Marquise

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Marquise of Walgreen	1 October 2004	Cathryn McHenry	Former Grand Duchess
Marquis of Sarnoff	1 February 2015	Dinny Pulipati	Also Prince-Consort

Hereditary Counts and Countesses

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Count of Kohler	15 November 2001	Joseph Day	Created as Duke of Walgreen
Countess Radlinski	28 January 2002	Jeanne Yearsley
Count of Ellsworth	5 September 2003	Jeffery Truett	Created as Earl of Truett
Count of Ward	3 March 2004	Miles Ward	Created as Viscount of Ward
Count of Farwell	11 March 2015	Michael Metelits
Count of Westwinter	16 April 2015	Jeremy Moore
Count of Martin	16 June 2015	Martino Bertoni
Countess of Martin	16 June 2015	Francesca Bertoni
Count of Moore	25 September 2015	Vicente Bicudo de Castro
Count of Campbell	14 October 2015	Neal Jagat Thapar
Countess of Campbell	14 October 2015	Aarti Thapar
Count of Trabucco	15 January 2016	Jeffery Rogers
Countess of Westwinter	16 June 2016	Beth Moore
Countess of Frakes	19 August 2016	Kelly Schenkman
Count of Steere	19 August 2016	Benjamin Schenkman
Count of Johansen	22 September 2016	Matthew Whisman

Hereditary Viscounts

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Viscount of Whitmore	15 November 2001	Neil Whitmoyer	Created as Duke of Whitmore
Viscount of Siple	1 October 2004	Emilio Garcia
Viscount of Boyd	2005	Shaun Herron
Viscount of Gardiner	2005	Name unknown
Viscount of Reynolds	21 February 2015	Terry Perkins	2nd holder of the title

Hereditary Barons and Baronesses

Name	Date of creation	Current holder	Notes
Baron of Havola	15 November 2001	George Morin, Jr.	Created as Duke of Ellsworth
Baron of Maricopa	8 April 2004	Aurther Langer	Created as Prince of Driscoll
Baron of Andrus	2005	Eduard Versluijs
Baron of Eburhard	2005	Douglas Swank
Baron of Lee-Tearmunn	2005	Troy Thompson	Created as Baronet of Brandenberger
Baron of Ellis	2005	Name Unknown
Baron of Forrester	-	Erik White
Baron H.V. Jain	8 November 2016	H.V. Jain
Baron Browson Delange	-	Thomas Delage
Baron of Lindsey	-	Massimo Zanne
Baron of Browson	-	Daniel Paul Means
Baron of Noville	15 March 2017	Marco Bellomo
Baron of Wolkowyszki	-	Louis Paiewonsky
Baroness of Petras	-	Leila Rozumski
Baroness of Groves	-	Rebecca Lorene Wilcomes
Baroness of Libertas	-	Michele Wolf
Baroness Tina the Great	-	Tina Galati
Baroness Blacketter	-	Erin Blacketter
Baroness Robin Mae Gage	-	Robin Gage
Baroness of Seabo Bluff	-	Claire Williams
Baroness of Pomeroy	6 June 2017	Sherri Groff
Baron Blake	-	Stephen MacLeod
Baron of Swan	-	Sterling MacLeod
Baron of Merrick	-	Dr. Brady McNulty
Baron of Upper Koloc	-	Marc Michels
Baron of Milan	-	Walter Birnböck
Baron of Weikman	-	Mario Alexander Fagitsch
Baron of Garwood	-	Eli Simon Sacra
Baron of Outer Koloc	-	Philipp Strauss
Baron of Brennan	-	Jean-Marie Wenigenrath
Baron of Stanford	-	Michael Nagiller
Baron of Reddick	-	Frank Lambert
Baron von Frank	-	Uwe Frank

See also

• Order of Precedence in Westarctica
• Nobility of Calsahara
• Courtesy Title