Peerage

In France

The Pairie of France is a group of large vassal crown born with the Moyen-âge and which was transformed into a class peerage-book equipped with specific privileges under the Ancien Mode, of which distinguished was the right to sit at the Parlement.

With the Restauration was instituted a Chambre of the pars (Upper House) on the English model, which shared the legislative power. This last manifestation of French peerage ended in 1848.

In the United Kingdom

There exist various peerages in the United Kingdom: the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Scotland, the Peerage of Ireland, the Peerage of Great Britain and the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The pars of England, of Scotland, of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, made until in 1999 left the British Parliament while sitting at the House of Lords. Since this date, any more but the pars with life, named by the queen do not sit, like eighty ten hereditary pars, and two large officers of the crown: the Duke of Norfolk, count-marshal of England and the Marquis de Cholmondeley, Great chamberlain (the United Kingdom). The distinction between noble and commoner are maintained, but peerage does not have any more political privileges, and the nobility of the Kingdom thus approaches the continental nobility by giving only honorary privileges.

In territorial principalities

In number of Principality S territorial, especially of north (County of Flanders, Hainaut, Saint-pol.…), a group of “pars” was constituted at the 13th century. This title of par was granted to the aristocrats resulting from the oldest families, those which constituted at the 11th century all the nobility. The accession with the nobility of the militate (combatants with horse) during and 13th century took along for the antiques noble families a need for distinction in the titulature which appeared by the adoption of the title of par. In other principalities (Viscount of Limoges, County of Walk…), it was the title of baron which met this need.

See too

Large of Spain

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