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What do all the different european titles for nobility mean? Where do they come from? Who was superior to whom?

Duchy is a germanic thing

Emperor > King > Princes of the Blood > Regular ass Princes > Dukes > Counts (or the retarded English version: Earl) > Barons > Baronets if they had those > Knight (though some Euronigger states didn't consider them to be nobles).

I thought duchy was derived from the latin "dux" referring to a military leader/commander. Even King Arthur was called dux in the old Latin texts.

Earl/Jarl was a germanic thing.

>earl
what a stupid fucking title man. English nobility is the gayest

Literally Wikipedia
Baron
Count/graf
Duke/ margrave/ march
King
Emperor

>earl is retarded English thing
Except we also use counts, it’s the French with their retarded Lords instead of Seneshals for fort commander

In the early middle ages, being "noble" was basically just a matter of opinion. If you had a lot of money, and you were "popular" among your peers, you're basically a noble. There weren't any specific rules for who was considered nobility, nor were there any specific rules regarding what privileges that nobility should expect to have.

However, as time went on, nobility became more defined, and more exclusive. Genealogy became increasingly important for proving whether you had a "real" claim to nobility or not. Extensive family trees were developed as a means of proudly displaying one's "noble" heritage. Coat of Arms were devised as way to quickly and efficiently convey who you were related to, and why it mattered. And perhaps most importantly from our point-of-view, the practice of having more than one name came into common practice. During the "Early" middle ages, you'd just have one name, because that was enough. However, during the "High" middle ages, it became common for a person to have a first AND last name to make familial connects more prominent. And of course some noble families went much further than that. All of this made it much harder for a person to "break into" the nobility. The nobility was never completely exclusive. In some cases, you could simply purchase a title of nobility from the King if you had enough money to do such a thing. But as time went on, joining the club of "nobles" became harder and harder as more and more rules were constructed to prevent too many people from being noble.

And of course, as "nobility" became more solidly defined, so did the privileges that came along with the various titles. Nobility came to have a very specific package of rights, which varied from place to place but was otherwise quite consistent.

The Scandinavians replaced Jarl with Count IIRC

East Euros had Grand Prince which outranked Grand Duke

Lord is an English word, I´m pretty sure.