Cross Cultural Offices, Titles Royal, Noble, Religious, etc.

[tetramorph]

Hey, The Red Baron, Admin Pete, and other interested parties:

Could y'all help me with some cultural knowledge and lists?

I am having the toughest time compiling the following for myself from the inter-webs.

I'd like to know the rough name (or a roughly usable name) for some of the following titles more familiar to us in western culture, and the unit they rule or govern. So, e.g.:

Political:

1. Emperor (where different from king) / empire
2. King / kingdom
Prince / Principality
3. Duke / Duchy
Marquis / March
Earl / County
4. Baron / Manor

Religious:

1. Patriarch / Patriarchate
2. Archbishop / Archdiocese
Bishop / Diocese
3. Vicar or Rector / Parish
4. Deacon

Monastic:

1. Master General / Order
2. Abbot, Abbess / Monastery
3. Prior, Prioress / "Satellite," monastery
4. Brother, Sister

I would like rough equivalents across many cultures, e.g.:

Persian (Pre-Islamic)
Babylonian
Egyptian
Muslim
Greek
Roman
Arabian (Pre-Islamic, if applicable)
Indian
Chinese
Japanese
Mongolian
Tibetan
Nubian
Aztec
Mayan
Incan

Some of these may have overlap. I'm just trying to be thorough. Some may not have a one to one match across all the above categories. And I don't need perfect historical matches. Just stuff reasonably believable and usably abstract enough for a fantastic medieval wargames campaign!

[The Red Baron]

DMG section on how to run campaigns has a list of comparable titles across different cultures

[tetramorph]

Nov 11, 2016 17:24:44 GMT -5 The Red Baron said:

DMG section on how to run campaigns has a list of comparable titles across different cultures

Rad.

I am so OD&D I often forget to check AD&D resources.

I'll have to pull them down off of a very high shelf somewhere!

Do you know a page number by any chance?

[jmccann]

I just looked this up and reference it in one of the Bath threads. Hold on: 1e DMG starting on p. 88 labelled "SOCIAL CLASS AND RANK IN ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS"

[tetramorph]

jmccann, The Red Baron thanks for the tips and reminders.

I've started compiling a big table lengthwise across a legal sheet.

I was a little disappointed in the relative paucity of the DMG.

Tony Bath helped to fill some in.

Both helped me to find stuff in a better way on the inter-webs and through wikipedia.

[Admin Pete]

Links for all, please expand the list:

Royal and noble ranks - European

British nobility

Who's Who in a Monarchy

A Glossary of European Noble, Princely, Royal, and Imperial Titles

British Titles and Orders of Precedence

Asian nobility

African nobility

African People Other information about African people

Nobility of the Americas

European nobility

People By Continent Other information about different peoples

Glossary of Titles

Regnal chronologies - INDICES and SITE MAP