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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)
Members of a formerly sovereign or mediatized house rank higher than the nobility. Among the nobility, those whose titles derive from the Holy Roman Empire rank higher than the holder of an equivalent title granted by one of the German monarchs after 1806. In Austria, nobility titles may no longer be used since 1918. [41]
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.
Title Creation Other earldom or higher titles The Earl of Shrewsbury [c] 1442 Earl Talbot in the Peerage of Great Britain; Earl of Waterford in the Peerage of Ireland: The Earl of Derby: 1485 The Earl of Huntingdon: 1529 The Earl of Pembroke: 1551 Earl of Montgomery in Peerage of England The Earl of Devon: 1553 The Earl of Lincoln: 1572 The ...
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
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.
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