What is Baronet?
[[Image:BaronetUK.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Neck decoration for baronets of the [[United Kingdom]], depicting the [[Red Hand of Ulster]].]] In the [[United Kingdom]] a '''baronet''' is a man who has the title ''Sir'', like a knight, but who is neither * a senior member of one of the [[orders of chivalry]], sometimes called orders of knighthood, nor * a [[Knight Bachelor]]. Unlike the members of the orders of chivalry and a knight bachelor a baronet can pass his title to his children. Baronets rank higher than knights, but below barons. == History == Some baronets were created in the 1300s, but the modern Order of Baronets dates from King [[James I of England]]. On [[22 May]] [[1611]] King James I set up the present hereditary Order of Baronets in England. He made 200 ''gentlemen of good birth'' baronets. He did this partly to reward those people with more than a knighthood, without making them as important as a Baron. The other reason was that the king needed money to keep soldiers in Ireland. Each of the new baronets had to pay £1095, which was the cost of keeping thirty soldiers for three years.<ref name= scb>{{cite web|url=http://www.baronetage.org/history.htm|title=A Short History of the Baronetage|access-date=2007-09-07|publisher=The Standing Council of the Baronetage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911231756/http://www.baronetage.org/history.htm|archive-date=2007-09-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1619 James I set up the Baronetage of Ireland, to raise more money. To explore [[Nova Scotia]] (New Scotland) in what we now call [[Canada]], King James I of England was going a create the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1624, but he died that year. His son King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] set up the Baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia in 1625. The new baronets had to pay £2000 or to support six settlers for two years. Today over a hundred ''baronets of Nova Scotia'' still exist. The Duke of Roxburghe, who is also Baronet of Innes-Ker of Innes is the ''Premier Baronet of Scotlan