Peerage
A peerage is a legal system historically comprising various hereditary titles in a number of countries, and composed of assorted noble ranks.
Peerages include:
Australia
- Australian peers
Belgium
- Belgian nobility
Canada
- British peerage titles granted to Canadian subjects of the Crown
- Canadian nobility in the aristocracy of France
China
- Chinese nobility
France
- Peerage of France
- List of French peerages
- Peerage of Jerusalem
Malta
- Maltese nobility
Japan
- Peerage of the Empire of Japan
- House of Peers
Portugal
- Chamber of Most Worthy Peers
Spain
- Chamber of Peers
- List of dukes in the peerage of Spain
- List of viscounts in the peerage of Spain
- List of barons in the peerage of Spain
- List of lords in the peerage of Spain
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
- Peerages in the United Kingdom
- *Hereditary peer, holders of titles which can be inherited by an heir
- * Life peer, members of the peerage of the United Kingdom whose titles cannot be inherited
- * Peerage of England, holders of English titles created before 1707
- * Peerage of Great Britain, holders of titles created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between 1707 and 1800
- * Peerage of Ireland, holders of Irish titles created by the Crown before 1920, until 1801 carrying a seat in the Irish House of Lords, some of whom later sat in the House of Lords at Westminster
- * Peerage of Scotland, holders of Scottish titles created before 1707, some of whom later sat in the House of Lords, all of them having a seat there from 1964 to 1999
- *Peerage of the United Kingdom, holders of most titles created since 1801 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- *Representative peers, holders of Scottish and Irish peerages who represented their peer-groups in the House of Lords at Westminster
- *Welsh peers and baronets, holders of various titles with a Welsh territorial connection
- List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Jacobite peerage, titles created following the deposition of King James II and VII from the thrones of England, Ireland, and Scotland
Lists of peers
- Dukes: see List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Marquesses: see List of marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Earls: see List of earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Viscounts: see List of viscounts in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Barons: see List of barons in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Female peerages: see List of peerages created for women and ''List of peerages inherited by women''