Definition of Peerages. Meaning of Peerages. Synonyms of Peerages

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Definition of Peerages

Peerage
Peerage Peer"age, n. [See Peer an equal, and cf. Parage.] 1. The rank or dignity of a peer. --Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. --Milton.

Meaning of Peerages from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- life to Prince Edward in 2023, all life peerages conferred since 2009 have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the rank of baron and entitle...
- peerages since 1801, and all subsequent peerages from 1898, are created within the division of the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Hereditary peerages...
- This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 since 2024, during the tenure of Labour...
- A peerage was attached to a specific territorial jurisdiction, either an episcopal see for episcopal peerages or a fief for secular ones. Peerages attached...
- belong to the peerage, as with life peers. Peerages may be created by means of letters patent, but the granting of new hereditary peerages has largely dwindled;...
- than 1,600 life peerages have been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the Life Peerages Act 1958. List of life peerages (1958–1979) Created...
- The Peerage of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Moraireachd na h-Alba; Scots: Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom...
- The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones...