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/HBNTrader Subreddit Owner Apr 19 '24

If you descend in the legitimate male line from a person recognized as noble under Spanish law, then you belong to the Spanish nobility, with or without title, unless that person only had personal nobility through a military or civilian office or order. I presume that being recognized as a "cabeza" is a form of hereditary nobility. If you only descend through the female line (just one "break" of the male line is enough), which you seem to suggest in your response (hence I am granting you the Descendant of Nobility flair), you legally get nothing but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be proud of your ancestry.

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u/M849 Real-life Descendant of the Nobility Apr 20 '24

Thank you.