Peerage

For other uses, see Peerage (disambiguation).

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks.

Peerages include:

Canada

• Canadian peerages in the nobility of France

France

• Peerage of France & crusader kingdom of Jerusalem
• List of French peerages

Japan

• Peerage of the Empire of Japan

United Kingdom, Ireland, and the British Empire

• Peerage of the United Kingdom and British Empire

The UK and Ireland

• Peerages in the United Kingdom
  • Hereditary peer
  • Life peer, appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited
  • Peerage of Great Britain
    • Canadian peerages in the nobility of the United Kingdom
  • 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

• Pairie, French equivalent of the English word peerage