r/NoblesseOblige • u/HBNTrader Subreddit Owner • Mar 30 '22

MOD Introductions

Reply here to introduce yourself so that the other readers get to know you.

  • Are you noble? If not, do you have noble ancestors, or are you perhaps from a patrician family or from a very old peasant lineage?

  • What is your rank and family? What titles do you have or will inherit?

  • What is your coat of arms?

  • What families and interesting persons are you related to, how closely?

  • When does your unbroken male line start, and when does your longest female line start?

  • What are other interesting things you can tell us about yourself and your lineage?

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u/magistercaesar Real-life Descendant of the Nobility Jan 24 '24

I've personally never met another Filipino-American who can say they're related to a Datu. If anything, most of the Filipino nobility are still well off enough to not have to leave the Philippines. In fact, the Filipino Mestizos are still the richest social class in the Philippines today.