[tirrigh-heralds] Question of forms of address

[Uilliam mac Ailéne mhic Seamuis]

Good evening, fellow heralds.

A question came up yesterday at Crickstow's Ithra session, in the 
Chivalry & Etiquette class, in two or three parts:
1) If a gentle is in a fealty chain - say in fealty to a landed Baron 
who is in turn in fealty to a territorial Prince who is then in fealty 
to the King - can that gentle properly address the King or the Prince as 
"my liege lord"?

2) Can a gentle in fealty to someone other than royalty address that 
person as "my liege"? To use the example above, "my liege baron"? Does 
that work? Does it seem awkward?

Thanks for any and all input on this one.

Uilliam
(the one on Insula Magna, not in Lions Gate)
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