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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4059409" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>I exchanged some e-mails with John Ross about this very topic. The important thing to bear in mind is that the noble households include the petty nobility. So for a town that has 5 noble families, that might be the lord of the local manor plus four knights and their families. It's not that it doesn't range up to the counts and dukes and the like-- just that they are a very small fraction of all of the nobles. So the 125 noble households in the biggest city would include a small number of high nobility (I'm not sure whether the townhouse of a noble who has estates out in the country would be counted, but it might be, especially if the nobles spend most of their time in the town and leave the estates to a steward to manage) and then lots of lower nobility-- knights and their families, the households of younger children of titled nobility who have reached majority and have the resources to set themselves up on their own, etc. The number of "peers" or their equivalent will be much smaller.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, when I wrote to him several years ago about his great resource, the author was very friendly and helpful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 4059409, member: 3448"] I exchanged some e-mails with John Ross about this very topic. The important thing to bear in mind is that the noble households include the petty nobility. So for a town that has 5 noble families, that might be the lord of the local manor plus four knights and their families. It's not that it doesn't range up to the counts and dukes and the like-- just that they are a very small fraction of all of the nobles. So the 125 noble households in the biggest city would include a small number of high nobility (I'm not sure whether the townhouse of a noble who has estates out in the country would be counted, but it might be, especially if the nobles spend most of their time in the town and leave the estates to a steward to manage) and then lots of lower nobility-- knights and their families, the households of younger children of titled nobility who have reached majority and have the resources to set themselves up on their own, etc. The number of "peers" or their equivalent will be much smaller. Incidentally, when I wrote to him several years ago about his great resource, the author was very friendly and helpful. [/QUOTE]
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