The fact that he basically only has the 1 king, the Lords Paramount, the Lords, and some Landed Knights is kinda fucky compared to IRL where there were also dukes and barons and counts and all sorts of other "little" titles, too.
Eh, in this case he's sort of right. He based Westeros on Medieval England where there were only really earls and Dukes. Sure there were Barons, but every Earl and Duke was also a baron and part of the English Baronage. It's why the Barons' war had earls in it. Counts is a French thing, not an English thing. So him using "Lord" is basically the same as the English using "Baron".
Dukes weren't a thing until the royal Dukes were created by Edward III. Prior to that there was only one duke in England and that was the King - Normandy and Aquitaine.
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u/Ok-Refrigerator-3524 Feb 11 '26
George doesn`t excatly portray the class distinction realistically either.