countling

plural countlings

1. A young, inferior, insignificant, or petty count.

   I did not see, but was told of the existence of a tiny countling, less and younger than any of his sisters, and probably too important to be shown about. Indeed he was a very weighty personage, as without him the possessions of his father must [...]

   1854, Andrew Hamilton, Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles - Volume 2 - Page 6