Does marrying a lady entitle you to become a lord?

Question

(This is a question related to the English royal family.) The daughters of courtesy earls have the title of "Lady". If a non-royal marries one of these Ladies, do they receive the courtesy title from the Earl as though they were his son, or do they just receive the generic title of Lord? Or neither? Thanks! (Please provide your source too!)

Answer 1

Unfortunately no. Titles are only inherited through birth. If you were a commoner and you married into an aristocrat family, you remain a commoner and so does your children.

The Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto, née Armstrong-Jones, (born 1 May 1964) is the only daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

Lady Sarah married Daniel Chatto on 14 July 1994 and

together the couple have two children:

Samuel David Benedict Chatto (born 28 July 1996)

Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 5 February 1999)

(No titles for both Daniel Chatto and the two children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Sarah_...

However, if a non-royal lady marries a "Lord" she will be called a "Lady" and her children will have titles accordingly. (The British royal marriage law is really double standard)

Sometimes the monarch will honour you with a title when you marry a princess of the blood but that is totally up to the monarch. For example, Mark Phillips declined to be titled as "Earl" when he married Princess Anne.

Answer 2

Absolutely!  My wife calls me Lord all the time so I must be right.

Answer 3

No, you won't receive a nobility title because those kind of titles are either inherited from a male figure or given by the monarch. Not even the sons or daughters of a Lady will receive the nobility title because in UK's monarchy, titles can only be inherited on the male line.

Answer 4

While wives of peers receive a title, husbands of peers do not.

In the behind-the-times world of royal etiquette, titled males outrank their female counterparts.  If a Princess's husband became a Prince, he'd outrank his wife.  A Prince's wife doesn't have that issue.

Examples:  

The Prince of Wales's wife became Princess of Wales.

Princess Anne's husband received no title.

Baroness Margaret Thatcher's husband Denis did not derive a title when his wife was granted a peerage.

Her predecessor Baron James Callaghan's wife did derive a title, and was addressed as Lady Callaghan.

Answer 5

If she's not your first cousin twice removed.

Answer 6

No. you would be her consort. Nothing wrong with that!