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This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles.. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.
This is a list of estates of nobility in the county of Derbyshire in England. [1] It includes current and former family seats of the Peerage of England . The list is ordered by rank of the English peerage in descending order: Duke , Marquess , Earl , Viscount , Baron and Baronet .
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs.This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion.
The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
The following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of January 2025. Separate orders exist for men and women.. Names in italics indicate that these people rank elsewhere—either higher in that table of precedence or in the table for the other sex.
A duke thus outranks all other holders of titles of nobility (marquess, earl, viscount and baron or lord of parliament). The wife of a duke is known as a duchess, which is also the title of a woman who holds a dukedom in her own right, referred to as a duchess suo jure; her spouse, however, does not receive any title.
The early law codes of Kent use the Old English word eorl (' high born ', ' noble ') to describe a nobleman. By the 8th century, the word gesith (' companion '; Latin: comes) had replaced eorl as the common term for a nobleman. [3] [4]