

Ciel Phantomhive's noble title was Earl. In medieval England, an [Earl was the
same as a Count in other parts of Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl).
Phantomhive is his family name; therefore, him being called Earl Phantomhive
was understandable. It was like calling Earl Peter Raeves of Wessex "Earl
Raeves", or Earl Ian Hunter of Hwicce "Earl Hunter".

My question is, since Phantomhive is his family name and not the name of a
region in England (unless in the Kuroshitsuji universe there is a region named
Phantomhive, but I've never heard of that), what region/county in England was
Ciel the Earl of?


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What region was Ciel Phantomhive the Earl of?


With what I've read in the manga. Earl of Phantomhive has always been a direct
servant to the queen. The way the manga seems to portray it. The phantomhive
family is in charge of the entire underground network for all of England.


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Earls, Dukes, and Counts can all vaguely be considered the same thing. All of
them could either be rulers over a section of the Queen's territory ("Earl
Peter Raeves of Wessex") or it was just a title for a part of the hierarchy
that was close to the monarch. I think he's called the Earl of Phantomhive, or
I suppose you could say Earl Phantomhive, because that puts him in his spot in
the hierarchy and as the head of the Phantomhive family. Please correct me if
I'm wrong but that's how I always understood it.


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There is a village connected to the earl's title, and presumably land
surrounding that village but it is not named in either manga or anime.


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