I have a single high-ranked (Count) colonist.
I'd decided to make all the other colonists (20 of them) freeholders by giving prisoners to the tribute collector.
Then it had turned out that, with the 'royal gossip' interaction, everyone's honor point value grows so crazy fast that now I have some ready to become acolytes and knights already, without any more quests or tribute for the pawns that were freeholders.
I... don't think this was the intention of this mechanic?