Tatiana Maria
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For some reason which I don't understand, the Life Peeresses in the House of Lords are called "Baroness" whereas the wives of Barons normally prefer to use "Lady" instead, although they are also "baronesses" strictly speaking.
Wasn't that decision made to distinguish them from wives of barons as some life peeresses wanted it to be clear that they had earned their peerage on their own merits?
There is no actual peerage in the UK for Lord/Lady those are more informal titles for other ranks or courtesy titles for children/siblings.
Except in Scotland, where the lowest rank of the peerage is formally Lord/Lady, as in Scotland the term Baron/Baroness denotes tenure instead of a peerage.
On your other point, the feminine form of Marquis is Marquise, both of which are actually French words. The equivalent in Spanish would be Marqués and Marquesa.
But Heavs was referring to the Tudor era, when English words were not spelled consistently.