Aspitis Previs

Count (later Earl) Aspitis Previs Nabbanai  Prevan

Friend of Benigaris. Paymaster of Fire Dancers. He is count of Eadne and master of Prevan House.

In Europe, Count and Earl are identical ranks (the wife of an Earl is a Countess) but in Osten Ard Earl is evidently a higher rank, in the gift of the High King. SOF ch. 15, p. 367. See Count Breyugar and Earl Fengbald in TDC.