The title of Viscount - Latin vice , “in the place of”, and comes , “companion” - is a Titer of nobility located between baron and Count.

the Middle Ages

A Viscount was:

• either a temporary officer a Count in his government, the secondary cities of a province (chief towns of a Pagus), or the administration of justice (one said also lieutenant of a count),
• or the son junior by a count,
• or the lord of a titrated ground “Vicomté”, generally depending on a “county”: the Viscount of Brie was part of the Champagne county

They were freed from the authority comtale at the 10th century (Narbonne, Nimes, Albi) and became high barons at the 11th century (Melun, Bourges, Thouars). One says a Viscountess for a woman.

See too

• historical Viscount
• List of the Viscounts of France
• the Viscount of Bragelonne

Toponym S

• Beaumont-the-Viscount
• Fontenay-the-Viscount
• the Essarts-the-Viscount
• Pommerit-the-Viscount
• Saint-Saver-the-Viscount.

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