earldom

He succeeded his brother (see above) in the earldom in 1823, and spent the latter part of his life in Paris.

Svein Hakonson, he that was the finest man that men have ever looked on, received earldom from Olaf the Swede.

Upon the death of Godwin, Harold resigned his earldom, and took that of Godwin, the bounds being slightly varied.

I have a Scotch earldom myself in my family granted by another king the day after he had lost his own crown.'

As for the Lamptons, there is an earldom in the English family, and there were claimants even then in the American branch.