Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising various hereditary titles (and sometimes non-hereditary titles) in a number of countries, and composed of assorted noble ranks.

Peerages include:

• Australian peers

• Belgian nobility

• British peerage titles granted to Canadian subjects of the Crown
• Canadian nobility in the aristocracy of France

• Chinese nobility

• Peerage of France
• List of French peerages
• Peerage of Jerusalem

• Peerage of the Empire of Japan
• House of Peers (Japan)

• Chamber of Most Worthy Peers

• Chamber of Peers (Spain)
• 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

• Baronage
• Pairie, French equivalent of the English word "peerage"