Earl - traducción al alemán
![coronation]] robes](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl coronation robes.jpg?width=200 "coronation]] robes")
![[[Hedingham Castle]], seat of the Earls of Oxford, is in Essex where most of the earl's land was concentrated](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedingham Castle - panoramio.jpg?width=200 "[[Hedingham Castle]], seat of the Earls of Oxford, is in Essex where most of the earl's land was concentrated")
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![Jones with Dame [[Angela Lansbury]] in 2013](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James Earl, Angela Lansbury (8356224350).jpg?width=200 "Jones with Dame [[Angela Lansbury]] in 2013")
![Jones and [[Jill Clayburgh]] in the stage production of "[[Othello]]" at the [[Mark Taper Forum]] in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1971](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JonesClayburghOthello1971.jpg?width=200 "Jones and [[Jill Clayburgh]] in the stage production of \"[[Othello]]\" at the [[Mark Taper Forum]] in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1971")
![Jones with President [[George H. W. Bush]] and First Lady [[Barbara Bush]] in 1992](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/President George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush present the Medal of Arts to James Earl Jones.jpg?width=200 "Jones with President [[George H. W. Bush]] and First Lady [[Barbara Bush]] in 1992")
![Jones's father, [[Robert Earl Jones]], in promotional still for the [[Langston Hughes]] play ''Don't You Want to Be Free?'' (1938)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert Earl Jones in Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to be Free? (23 June 1938; photograph by Carl Van Vechten).jpg?width=200 "Jones's father, [[Robert Earl Jones]], in promotional still for the [[Langston Hughes]] play ''Don't You Want to Be Free?'' (1938)")
Definición
Wikipedia
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word eorl, meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form jarl, and meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead. After the Norman Conquest, it became the equivalent of the continental count (in England in the earlier period, it was more akin to a duke; in Scotland, it assimilated the concept of mormaer). Alternative names for the rank equivalent to "earl" or "count" in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as the hakushaku (伯爵) of the post-restoration Japanese Imperial era.
In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of earl never developed; instead, countess is used.
