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This article lists all marquessates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The title of Marquess of Dublin , which is perhaps best described as Anglo-Irish, was the first to be created, in 1385, but like the next few creations, the title was soon forfeit.
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 general order of precedence among Marquesses is: Marquesses in the Peerage of England; Marquesses in the Peerage of Scotland; Marquesses in the Peerage of Great Britain; Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created before 1801; Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created after 1801
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)
Peerage of England: Marquess of Winchester (1551) George Paulet, 12th Marquess of Winchester: 1794: 1800: Title previously held by the Dukes of Bolton Peerage of Scotland: Marquess of Tweeddale (1694) George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale: 1787: 1804: Marquess of Lothian (1701) William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian: 1775: 1815: Marquess of ...
Peerage of Scotland: Marquess of Tweeddale (1694) John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale: 1715: 1762: Marquess of Lothian (1701) William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian: 1722: 1767: Marquess of Annandale (1701) George Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess of Annandale: 1730: 1792: Peerage of Great Britain: Marquess Grey (1740) Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness ...
Hereditary peerages are still extant in the other divisions: the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Scotland, the Peerage of Great Britain and the Peerage of Ireland. Since 2009 almost all life peerages are created, by convention, at the rank of baron, the sole exception being the royal life peerage of the Dukedom of Edinburgh in 2023.
The first marquesses (Irish: marcas) in the Peerage of Ireland were Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim (1645) and Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1646), both titles created during the Irish Confederate Wars. (The above-mentioned Robert de Vere was created Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland, but both of these were titles in ...