Aulic titulature

Aulic titulature is a term, derived from the Greek "Aulè" and Latin Aula (in the meaning palace) for hierarchic systems of titles specifically in use for court protocol.

Hellenistic Antiquity

...Ironically in the formal 'court' titulature of the hellenistic empires ruled by dynasties we know as Diadochs, the title "diadochos" was not customary for the Monarch, but has actually been proven to be the "lowest" in a system of official rank titles, known as Aulic titulature, conferred -ex officio or nominatim- to actual courtiers "and" as an honorary rank (for protocol) to various military and civilian officials.

Notably in Lagid Egypt, diadochos was reported as the lowest aulic rank, under Philos (Basilikos) 'Friend (of the King), Archisomatophylax ('Arch-bodyguard'), protos philos ('First friend'), homotimos (' [nearly] equal dignitary') and syggeneus ('cognate of the crown'), during the reign of Ptolemaios V Epiphanes

Habsburg court

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