Baronnet

Baronnet (English: baronet ) is a British Titer of nobility, of an intermediate row between baron and knight.

The baronnet is entitled to name “ Sir ” before its first name, and to the suffix “baronet” (often shortened in Bart , even LT ) after its name. Example: “ Sir John Smith, LT ”.

One addresses oneself to a baronnet by telling him “ Sir John ” or “ Sir John Smith ”, never “ Sir Smith ”. In the rare case where the baronnet is a woman, one uses Dame in the place of Sir .

The title of baronnet is transmitted in a hereditary way to elder wire.

There exist five orders of baronnets: those of England (1611), of Scotland or Nova Scotia (1625), of Ireland (1611), of Great Britain (1707) and of the the United Kingdom (1801).

Heraldic

The title of baronnet is distinguished on the blazon from the baronnets by the addition from a canton or a escutcheon charged with a sinistral hand with mouths (left, red), called Badge off Ulster (although the hand of the Ulster is dextral and nonsinistral). The baronnets of Scotland and Nova Scotia carry them a canton charged with the Drapeau of Nova Scotia (white flag with blue cross of Scotland with in heart the Scottish blazon, a lion of mouths surrounded by a double treschor in the same way).