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The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...
Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time (Heritage Books, London, 1840) Charles Mosley (Ed.), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (107th Edition, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 2003)
The Peerage of England – titles created by the kings and queens of England before the Acts of Union in 1707. The Peerage of Scotland – titles created by the kings and queens of Scotland before 1707. The Peerage of Great Britain – titles created for the Kingdom of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801.
Ban, noble title used in several states in Central and Southeastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. Dauphin, title of the heir apparent of the royal family of France, as he was the de jure ruler of the Dauphiné province in today's southeastern France (under the authority of the King)
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain .
The titled nobility of England and Ireland consisted of one rank until 1337, namely that of earl. [3] Edward I (1272–1307) led a restrictive policy on the creation of new earldoms, and at the end of his reign the number of earls was at eleven.
The following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of December 2024. 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. Titles in italics indicate the same thing for their holders, or that they are vacant.
The baronage was largely untitled, but a small number of barons (never more than 25 at one time) enjoyed the title of earl, [20] the only hereditary title in England before 1337. [21] The historian David Crouch defined baron as "the greatest men in the aristocracy (whether they were earls, barons or not), men habitually at court, lords of great ...