Peerage
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For other uses, see Peerage (disambiguation).
A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various European countries, comprising various noble ranks.
Peerages include:
Canada[edit]
France[edit]
- Peerage of France & crusader kingdom of Jerusalem
- List of French peerages
United Kingdom, Ireland, and the British Empire[edit]
The UK and Ireland[edit]
- Peerages in the United Kingdom
- Hereditary peer
- Life peer, appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited
- Peerage of Great Britain
- Peerage of England
- Welsh peers and baronets
- Peerage of Ireland
- Peerage of Scotland
- List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Jacobite Peerage, created following the deposition of Kings James II and VII from the thrones of England and Ireland
See also[edit]
- Pairie, French equivalent of the English word peerage
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