Peerage (disambiguation)
A peerage is a legal system comprising hereditary titles in various European countries.
Peerage may also refer to:
Publications
- Burke's Peerage, publishes guides to the royal and titled families of the United Kingdom and many other countries
- Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a book and website with a short history of the family of each titleholder
- The Complete Peerage, a work on the titled aristocracy of the United Kingdom and, later, the UK and Ireland
- The Scots Peerage, a nine-volume series of the Scottish nobility
Other uses
- Peerage Act 1963, allowing women peers and Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and newly inherited hereditary peerages to be "disclaimed"
See also
- Peer (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Peerage
- All pages with titles containing Peerage
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