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viscount

European title of nobility, ranking immediately below a count, or earl. The wife of a viscount is a viscountess. In the Carolingian period, the vicecomes were deputies or lieutenants of the counts (comes), whose official powers they exercised by delegation. In the 11th century most of Normandy was divided into vicomtés, but the viscountcy was not introduced into the English peerage until nearly 400 years after the Norman conquest.

viscount

1. (in the British Isles) a nobleman ranking below an earl and above a baron

2. (in various countries) a son or younger brother of a count

3. (in medieval Europe) the deputy of a count

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