Yeah, that was intentional, since they were in reverse order or otherwise out of place, resulting in the size and material of their jewelry becoming worse as they ranked up. Now the noble line should properly go from narrow copper, to medium silver, to wide adamantine jewelry. Likewise the size of the gem on the militia captain/commander/champion's helmet should increase with rank instead of decrease.
The consort and male/female noble stuff honestly isn't even working at present, sadly. I don't believe the game recognizes any of the titles except for the baseline Baron/Count/Duke/Monarch; the gender variations and consort graphics currently go unseen ingame. I rearranged them to match the correct tiles, but until somebody figures out how to have gender variation and consort positions display different tiles with TWBT or something, it doesn't affect anything.