Silentpony said:
Chimpzy said:
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Silentpony said:
When you buy a title do you get to choose what that is? Like I'll buy a Knighthood, but instead of Sir SilentPony I want to be Chapter Master SilentPony.
Don't think so, but you can get a similar title if you found and become head of a chivalric order, which is basically the equivalent of a Space Marine Chapter Master. Depending on whether your order is preceptory, commandery, priory or a secular organisation, you'll get to call yourself Grand Master, Master General or Knight Marshal.
I guess you'd need to be knighted before your can start your chivalric order, but luckily you can buy a knighthood from Sealand [https://sealandgov.org/shop/join-the-knights-of-the-sovereign-military-order-of-sealand/] for the low low price of ?100. Which I'm guessing is the same thing Grouchy Imp and his chaps did.
Can I just start my own order without being Knighted, or Knight myself?
Like just put Chapter Master on all my documents. Chapter Master SilentPony, SMC(Space marine chapter). And just go around like yeah, I'm the first knight of my own chivalric order.
Traditionally you would need the sponsorship of at least a souverain prince (think principality ruler) or the church to found a knightly order. Modern states probably could do this as well. To become a knight would be a bit easier because if you had such an order you could give out knight titles as you wish.
You can found an order and call yourself chapter master and your members knights without sponsorship. But don't count on being recognized as "real" by those people that actually care. For those the value of any chivalric order is firmly linked to who the original sponsor was and what history the order has.
I mean, there are still a lot of the chivalric orders around, like the Knights of Malta.
There are even more details and exceptions (fraternal orders of 5th ands 16th century) and the whole "monarch founds order" eventually evolved into "monarch sponsors a new medal called order of" so technically those might count as well, but i don't think that is what you are asking for.