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Peerage (disambiguation)

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A peerage is a legal system comprising hereditary titles in various European countries.

Peerage may also refer to:

Publications

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  • 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

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  • 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

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