viscount

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A duke is the highest ranking member of the English nobility, followed by marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

These are the Downton Abbey-type aristocrats whom many reformers would like to see tossed: the marquesses, viscounts, barons et cetera, whose titles are passed down for generations.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2022

In fact, the dukes and earls and viscounts are still there and doing quite nicely if you don't mind.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

The list was spattered with landowners, containing 11 dukes, six marquises, 14 earls and nine viscounts.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2013

The Vallée d'Ossau has had to defend its rights sometimes against the viscounts of Béarn, sometimes against the monks of Cluny, and the Poublans of Pau.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart