The Rank of High Nobility Houses

(Year 229) It makes a huge difference whether your House holds a peerage, especially if it is one with its own District Order. Such an Order will make your peerage High Nobility, which will place  your house closer to the Monarch. All dukedoms have an Order, most counties and a few baronies. Head of House can only hold one high nobility Peerage, but other members of your House can hold additional high nobility peerages.

Each Order comes with a sash of a set color and the max 8 members will gather for the annual gala dinner. It's not normal to be a member of more than one Order, simply because there are many restrictions limiting your representation, and many noble persons fighting over the few memberships. If you are the sovereign you might of course be a member of your own order, plus you might be invited into the Order of another peerage. Orders helps building network, and it might help your children finding their spouses from a higher social level, too. Membership is life long (as long as you stay on the right side of the Law), but can not be passed down to your descendants - they will need to earn a membership for themselves!

His Royal Majesty King Tarriot is Head of House of Luxe-Hamper. Combined with Queen Venezia's lower
ranked heritage House of Luxe-Hamper might lose its top rank position with the next generation. 

Right here and now I'll try to rank all the registered Houses according to the traditional routine.

Current Head of House simply gets a score for each ancestor who was the Sovereign of a high nobility Order. This goes back 3 generations, with the oldest seen as the most important. After all, traditions are essential in this society, where older Houses generally rank higher. You get 0,25 point per parent, 0,5 point per grandparent, and 1 point per great grandparent. The only way to secure a high rank for the next generation would be to marry wisely. Because gender being an issue (females normally won't be the Sovereign of any such Order), the max score would be 5,25 points (1 father, 2 grandfathers, 4 great-grandfathers). None of my existing houses scores this high, though.

1. House of Luxe-Hamper, Del Sol Valley Reg 12 + Tredony Reg 3 (5,25 p + 1,25 p)

2. House de Croismare, Aarbyville Reg 6 (4,25 p)

2. House of Saxor, San Myshuno Reg 12 (4,25 p)

2. House of Thebe, San Myshuno Reg 12 (4,25 p)

2. House of Sax-Donnersmalt, Oasis Springs Reg 12 (4,25 p)

6. House of Ross, Henford-on-Bagley Reg 2 (3,75 p)

7. House de Cavalier, Brindleton Bay Reg 12 (3,25 p)

8. House von Heimlich, Windenburg Reg 1 (2,75 p)

9. House of Paris, Crafthole Reg 4 (1,75 p)

9. House of Altham, Advorton Reg 7 (1,75 p)

9. House de Gould, Ticktop Reg 8 (1,75 p)

12. House von Kaching, Gloomville Reg 12 (1 p)

Royal House of Luxe-Hamper has more than the max score because a member of the house holds a second Order, adding a few more points to the score. A house needs minimum 3 successful generations to rank high. The royal house might drop after King Tarriot, because he married outside the high nobility (Queen Venezia's father was Baron de Tartosa, but he had no Order), and therefore the Crown Princess will not get any score from her mother's side. If her grand-uncle, Prince Jerome, Count of Tredony is no longer around when her father, King Tarriot, dies, the Tredony Order will leave this house and House of Luxe-Hamper will drop to a score of 2.75 which seems quite low for a royal house. This makes it obvious that Crown Princess Emireza will not be allowed to marry anyone below dukedom levels.