3 adjectives to describe princeling

"Before a petty German princeling?" Vernon turned red with anger at the words, but as he opened his mouth to reply, there came a sharp knock at the door.

He can hardly desert them until their interests have been permanently safeguarded and by then he will have become a feudal princeling, the very reverse of the young cowherd who night after night has thrilled the cowgirls with his flute.

He had to go from a country where he was the wealthiest and most important personage to another where he would be merely regarded as a minor German princeling set up as a figurehead, and where many of the gentry were wealthier than he.

3 adjectives to describe  princeling